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How to start

Last Update a year ago

Dairy farmer: how to get started with the Bovilab concept Veterinarians: How to get started with the BoviLab concept?

Veterinarians: How to get started with the BoviLab concept?

Veterinarian's guide to getting started in practice.

Mark van Kleef

Last Update a year ago

1. Placement in the market
Veterinarians and livestock farmers are mainly concerned with transition diseases that are the result of a calcium and energy deficiency (marked in yellow). Many transition diseases are related to each other. Realize that the arrows in this cascade start at the energy and calcium balance. The arrows show that a calcium and energy deficiency leads to a snowball effect of diseases. Improvements that you implement there will have a major impact on the farm.


Tips:

  • Realize that every time you treat a cow with a transition disease, you have a chance to use BoviLab.
  • Once you have used BoviLab on a farm and have successfully given advice, some of these farmers will be open to preventive monitoring. This can be done on a regular basis or after a ration change.

2. Working method at the farm

On a dairy farm with 100 to 150 dairy cows, sample blood from a total of 8 cows from the close-up and fresh groups. For farms of a different size, you can use other numbers according to your own insight.

Close-up: 20 to 2 days before calving.

Fresh: 1 to 10 days after calving. Note: maximum 10 days after calving!

Do not sample sick animals.

You can also sample blood from heifers; they can also have hypocalcemia and ketosis. 

Do not only look at the reference values, but also try to discover trends using the results. Use the target values ​​for this, a result can fall within the reference value, while there is still room for improvement. Our dashboard provides a lot of visual support to discuss the results with the farmer.

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