Flock & Herd Planning from CVS Farm Vets NI
Health Plans
Our veterinarians can work with you to establish a tailored herd health plan with the aim to optimize livestock health and productivity through strategies like vaccinations and nutrition management. A herd health plan helps address issues proactively, benefiting both the animals and the operation.
HERD PLANNING:
A herd health plan should outline the disease status of the farm identifying the key challenges and areas of risk. It provides a framework for disease prevention strategies, such as vaccination, it outlines how existing issues are to be tackled and measured, and monitors animal health and productivity.
FLOCK PLANNING:
Our comprehensive flock health plan will have a positive influence on your stock management and animal husbandry such as foot care and condition scoring, it will also cover ways to introduce preventive health care in the form of vaccination and worming protocols as well as parasite control and disease monitoring and establishing a ‘best practice’ for recording on farm data for assurance schemes such as Red Tractor.
An active flock health plan means measuring your flocks performance; discussing the results with you and setting targets specific to your farm which aim to improve the performance and profitability of your flock.
We help you to fill in record sheets throughout the year as data collection is really important and helps provide a baseline performance and allows for realistic targets to be set.
An annual farm visit ensures that your written flock health plan is relevant to you and evolves according to your individual performance and your objectives for the following year.