NMR Herd Improvement Services 2023
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Selective Dry Cow<br />
Therapy<br />
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<strong>NMR</strong> offers a tool in <strong>Herd</strong> Companion that helps you decide which<br />
cows within your herd should be suitable for Selective Dry Cow<br />
Therapy (SDCT).<br />
Endorsed by milk buyers and vets alike, SDCT is a pioneering approach to the management<br />
of dairy herds that helps reduce unnecessary antibiotic use - it targets only those cows with<br />
evidence of udder infection, negating the need for blanket use of antibiotics in all cows at drying<br />
off. SDCT involves evidence-based decision making, so the better the evidence you have the<br />
more confident you can be of successful outcome.<br />
Gathering data at both herd and cow level is important; regular and repeated individual cow<br />
SCCs, accurate mastitis records and working with your vet are essential. The Selective Dry Cow<br />
Tool in <strong>Herd</strong> Companion offers:<br />
• Collation of all your SCC and pathogen data in one place<br />
• <strong>Herd</strong> level summary of NML bulk milk tank results<br />
• Quarterly bulk milk mastitis pathogen testing (at extra cost) using spare NML bulk samples<br />
• Summary of the number of mastitis cases per 100 cows (<strong>NMR</strong> Recorded <strong>Herd</strong>s)<br />
• Dry period SCC summary (<strong>NMR</strong> Recorded <strong>Herd</strong>s)<br />
<strong>NMR</strong> Customer <strong>Services</strong>: 03330 043043 / customerservices@nmrp.com<br />
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