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Outline management practices a farmer should carry out to maintain good healthy in a herd of cattle

      

Outline management practices a farmer should carry out to maintain good healthy in a herd of cattle

  

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Lydia
Management practices for good health

- provide balanced ration to increase disease resistance

- select healthy breeding stock

- cull animals susceptible to certain diseases

- use appropriate breeding methods to avoid disease transmission

- provide proper housing e.g calf pens to avoid diseases.

- maintain high level of hygiene

- isolate or confine sick animals from healthy ones

- Treat sick animals

- impose quarantine incase of out breaks of notifiable diseases

- use prophylactic drugs e.g dewormers

- carry out regular vaccination

- control vectors such as ticks

- slaughter & dispose properly affected animal if cannot be cured.
lydiajane74 answered the question on October 12, 2017 at 08:28


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