Are You Using DairyComp to Monitor Hoof Health?
What precautions are you taking to prevent lameness? Hopefully a few things come to mind, but if not, this is your sign to start. Hoof health is imperative to a cow’s overall well-being, impacting nearly every aspect of her performance – from reproductive health to milk production to longevity.
Lame cows are not productive or profitable cows. Check out how DairyComp’s Lameness Manager feature can help you start monitoring your herd’s hoof health.
What is Lameness Manager?
Available to all DairyComp users, Lameness Manager standardizes entry and analysis for LAME and foot trim events, making it easy to hone in hoof health management and protocols. Easily set up trim lists, automate the process for rechecking animals, narrow in on problem cows and create and assign protocols to ensure no animal in your herd is missed.
Using hoof health data to monitor your trimming program
Complete and accurate records are a must in evaluating herd hoof health, reducing lame cases and cutting economic loss. Once the data is in DairyComp, the sky is the limit for hoof health data analysis. Using the ‘Lameness’ tab in GUIDE, DairyComp helps you address concerns like:
- Are we trimming enough cows?
- When do the first instances of lameness lesions occur in the herd?
- Which cows are consistently showing poor hoof health?
- How is hoof health trending on a weekly or monthly basis?
Check out how to implement Lameness Manager on your dairy in our webinar, Using Lameness Manager to Make Decisions and Document Change. You’ll hear from Gerard Cramer, DVM, DVSc as he shares how Lameness Manager helped a real herd answer these questions and more by following trends in their herd’s trim data, tracking problem cows and using the data to make management decisions.
Start managing your herd’s hoof health more proactively. Reach out to your VAS representative to learn more or use the guide below to set up Lameness Manager in your DairyComp dashboard.
