| title: | The panorama of diseases and their risk factors in dairy cows at loose housing |
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| reg no: | ETF5742 |
| project type: | Estonian Science Foundation research grant |
| subject: |
4.5. Veterinary Medicine |
| status: | accepted |
| institution: | EAU Faculty of Veterinary Science |
| head of project: | Jaan Praks |
| duration: | 01.01.2004 - 31.12.2007 |
| description: | This project is and elaboration of grants 1985 and 4109. Earlier research has led to the development of the principles of a dairy herd health monitoring system, the creation of databases concerning the diseases and housing conditions of dairy herds, a methodology for mathematical analysis and models for the determination of risk factors in dairy cow morbidityand the ascertainment of a hierarchy of the influence of the said factors. The methodology developed was implemented mainly in cowsheds using tied housing. The objective of the project presented herein is to investigate the disease panorama and environmental risk factors for disease in loose housing conditions. At the present time there is a global trend towards increasing the size of dairy herds and the extensive application of loose housing. Taking into consideration the agreements that have been concluded for the performance of research at three large farms opened in 2002 that use different housing technologies and in several cold cowsheds, there are favourable opportunities for the investigation of risk factors in loose housing. The results obtained would be of interest to academics from the Baltic and Scandinavian countries and national institutions that perform monitoring of the diseases of dairy cows. The following are the anticipated results of the planned research project: 1) determination of the panorama of diseases of dairy cows in loose housing; 2) methodology for the determination of the hierarchy of risk factors will be improved; 3) determination and ranking of environmental risk factors for dairy cows in loose housing with different technologies; 4) evaluation of different loose housing technologies, based primarily on the criterion of the animals' wellbeing in the herd; 5) development of plans of effective measures for the improvement of the health of loose housing herds.¿¿¿¿¿ |
| project group | ||||
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| no | name | institution | position | |
| 1. | Andres Aland | lektor | ||
| 2. | Tanel Kaart | teadur, statistik,geneetik | ||
| 3. | Väino Poikalainen | dotsent | ||
| 4. | Jaan Praks | EAU Faculty of Veterinary Science | prof. emeritus | |
| 5. | Imbi Veermäe | vanemteadur | ||
| 6. | Merit Villemson | loomaarst | ||