Jamie Sullivan discusses how to create an effective digital dermatitis control plan to keep this endemic spirochete bacteria at bay. He focuses on four key elements of reducing incidence:
- Hygiene, hygiene, hygiene
- Nutrition
- Dry cow and transition cow footbath
- Walk heifer pens:
Source: Progressive Dairy, January 19, 2021. Link. Understand how the bacteria causing this disease works and what is needed for it to thrive critical to creating and managing an effective DD control program. Sullivan discusses what is known about creating an effective digital dermatitis control program.
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