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Update on dry cow therapy 2. measuring dry period performance
Author(s) -
Biggs Andrew
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
in practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.211
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 2042-7689
pISSN - 0263-841X
DOI - 10.1136/inp.j3592
Subject(s) - period (music) , antibiotic therapy , dry cough , antibiotics , medicine , zoology , veterinary medicine , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , philosophy , aesthetics
This article, the second in a two‐part series on dry cow therapy, discusses practical approaches to targeting and justifying antibiotic dry cow therapy, with tips, tricks and challenges for initiating targeted/selective dry cow therapy on farm. The first part, published in the July/August issue of In Practice (Biggs 2017) described the evolution of knowledge around the dry period and provided an update on where knowledge, opinions and attitudes to antibiotic and non‐antibiotic approaches used in dry cow therapy have changed.