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Introduction

The National Dairy Farm Assured Scheme Standards specify that a herd health plan shall be installed and maintained on an assured farm.

The written health plan must be readily available to any farm staff with responsibility for the health and welfare of the farm livestock.

The plan will comprise:

  1. Protocols for routine foot-care, examination and trimming, including naming those persons responsible.
    informationRoutine foot care and lameness control
    informationHealth plan for lameness
    informationLameness action plan

  2. Mastitis action plan to prevent and control mastitis in the herd, including treatment protocols and procedures for drying off
    informationMastitis control
    informationMastitis action plan
    informationTreatment protocols for mastitis cases
    informationDry cow therapy

  3. Vaccination plan with details of any vaccines required to be used, target animals and any boosters required.
    informationVaccinations
    informationVaccination protocols

  4. A parasite control plan that specifies strategies and worming programmes, including target animals and any medicines to be used.
    informationParasite control

  5. An isolation and infectious disease control policy for the isolation of any stock with infectious disease or diseases potentially communicable to man.
    informationBiosecurity and isolation
    informationHerd biosecurity health plan

  6. A set of maintained records detailing the occurrence of specific health and welfare disorders that will act as a monitor of health and welfare. The health records may be combined with other records such as medicine or movement records, and the method of recording is not specified.
    informationHealth records

This BCVA NDFAS Herd Health Plan (The BCVA Concise HHP) fulfils the requirements of the scheme standards and should be periodically reviewed. The plan is an extract from the more comprehensive BCVA Herd Health Plan for Farm Assurance, (The BCVA Complete HHP) and forms a minimum basic plan for the purposes of the National Dairy Farm Assurance Scheme Standards. The BCVA Complete Herd Health Plan is a more comprehensive and integral plan for the formulation of a total healthcare and welfare monitoring system on the dairy farm

The BCVA Concise Herd Health Plan should be prepared and completed by the attending veterinary surgeon at the outset and the review dates entered onto the opening sheet. A completed copy of the Herd Health Plan should be left on the farm for the reference of the farmer and any others who need to refer.

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