Don't wait until an animal is sick before acting. Preventative health care can give you far better long term results, not just in terms of animal welfare, but also farm sustainability and profitability.
Here are nine things you can do to minimize health problems with farm animals:
- A good well balanced diet that provides all the nutritional needs of the animal sufficient for the survival and good health of the animal.
- Providing shelter to protect animals from bad weather. Preventing animals from getting wet and cold to avoid sickness.
- Controlling insect pests by removing manure from feed lots to prevent insect pests from breeding.
- Drenching, worming, dipping animals to prevent illness.
- Vaccinating to produce anti bodies to protect the animal from future infection.
- Avoiding stress on the animals by reducing handling.
- Quarantining new animals from existing animals on the property to prevent infecting the existing animals with diseases the new animals may have.
- Avoiding contamination by showing and washing of shoes between flocks or sheds of laying hens.
- Dehorning of cattle to prevent injuries to other cattle.
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