Prewencja weterynaryjna w fermach krów mlecznych

This review is aimed at introducing the subject of veterinary prevention in dairy cattle farms. Prevention is covering many areas of veterinary medicine and animal breeding. Veterinary aspects focus on avoiding health problems, mainly the frequency of infectious diseases. This goal is achieved by ensuring and maintaining an appropriate level of animal welfare and sanitation for the entire herd. Bio-insurance is focused on preventing the spread of diseases and the pests control in the farm. Important elements of biosecurity in a dairy cattle farm, more widely discussed in this article, include quarantine for new animals, rat extermination and restriction of birds access. Diseases affecting dairy cattle differ from those, occurring in other farm animals, so the economic risk scale is often more significant. Currently, the greatest health and economic damage in Poland is caused by infectious IBR/IPV and BVD. The modern approach to the prevention of infectious diseases, requires the use of mass immunization of livestock. There is an unwritten rule in the practitioners community not to cooperate with the owner, who does not care about the risk of BVD and IBR/IPV herd infections and refuses to implement a vaccination program. It is similar with owners, who do not care about biosecurity on their farms. The author shows, it is better and less expensive to apply and take care of prevention, than to treat an already sick herd.