Success StoryHenderson Settlement implemented herd health protocol



Henderson Settlement implemented herd health protocol

Author: Jacob Brandenburg

Planning Unit: Owsley County CES

Major Program: Beef

Plan of Work: Farm Profitablity

Outcome: Intermediate Outcome

Cattle herd health at the Henderson settlement was non-existent when I started. I worked with the management of the settlement to explain why the cattle would need a annual vaccination plan and implement those protocols. I worked with boehringer ingelheim to obtain over 1200 of free medicines that could be used to start the implementation of vaccinations. Those medicines consisted of 2 50 dose bottles of a 7-way to treat viral diseases and 2 50 dose bottles of blackleg medicine and 2.5 liters of cydectin.  After obtaining these medicines I worked to arrange meetings with Lincoln-Memorial Universities Veterinarian Service to set a time that they could come to the settlement and administer the medicines to the cattle as well as professionally assess these cattle by grading body condition scores, palpating, and teething the cattle or aging them. This date was set for May 17th I worked diligently to have all the cattle moved to one location and set up a temporary working facility so that everything could fall into place. The cattle received all the vaccinations and where assessed by the veterinary team from LMU as planned on may 17th.  






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