Animal Hygiene and Animal Health in Dairy Cattle Operations

Abstract

This paper addresses the economic and strategic position of animal health in the dairy operations and the way that animal health care should be properly designed. Examples of biosecurity plans and quality risk management are fur- ther elaborated. Disease risk identification and disease risk management as primary preventive issues are pivotal in mod- ern animal health care on both the small and larger dairy farms. Biosecurity and quality risk management can both be in- tegrated into current operational veterinary herd health and production management programs.