Keeping Ontario dairy cows healthy and disease free is in the best interests of the farmer and the dairy industry. This section of our website contains information on udder health, disease, hoof health, biosecurity, livestock medicines, poisonous plants and precision dairying.

• Boosting Births Keeping Mastitis Out Of Your Herd May Improve Reproductive Success
• Coliform Mastitis
• Does Lime Stop Mastitis?
• Direct Connection Environmental Mastitis and Reproductive Performance
• Feeding for Higher Production May Be Linked To Environmental Mastitis
• Hard Data on Soft Science - How the 'People' Factor Affects Milk Quality
• Keeping Milk Bacteria Counts Low
• Prototheca - Unseen Danger
• Staph. Aureus Mastitis
• Strep. Ag. Mastitis
• Strep. Non-Ag. Mastitis
• The SCC Conundrum - You May Reduce Herd Somatic Cell Counts Without More Clinical Mastitis
• Troubleshooting Antibiotic Residues in Milk and Dairy Beef

Disease

• Bovine Tuberculosis - Mycobacterium bovis
• Double Jeopardy - Cows with Ketosis
• Hot Tips for Cool Cows
• Johne's Control
• Canadian Johne's Initiative

Hoof Health

Livestock Medicines

• Storage and Handling of Livestock Medicines on the Dairy Farm (Order# 92-055)
• The Need to Read - Drug Label Directions Enhance Health of Livestock and Bottom Line

Body Condition Scoring

• Body Condition Scoring of Dairy Cattle (Order No. 00-109)
• Automated Body Condition Scoring

Precision Dairy Management

• Precision Dairy Management and the Future of Dairy Production in Ontario (Order# 07-065)
• Precision Management
• Traceability
• Tune in to Benefits of Radio Frequency ID Technology

Biosecurity

Poisonous Plants

• Common Weeds Poisonous to Grazing Livestock
• Poisoning of Livestock by Plants
• Poisonous Plant Quiz

• Dairy Web - A Virtual Library of Dairy Production Information
• Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service US
• Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council
• Milk Quality - University of Wisconsin
• National Mastitis Council (U.S.)
• NetVet Veterinary Resources