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Calf-ETERIA

Calf-ETERIA. Knowledge Exchange Day: KTT in Action. What is Calf-ETERIA ?. Calf-ETERIA : Using Calf health and productivity as a template for an E valuation of T ranslation and E xtension of R esearch I nformation for A griculture Intended audience: Dairy Producers (all objectives)

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Calf-ETERIA

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  1. Calf-ETERIA Knowledge Exchange Day: KTT in Action

  2. What is Calf-ETERIA ? • Calf-ETERIA: Using Calf health and productivity as a template for an Evaluation of Translation and Extension of Research Information for Agriculture • Intended audience: • Dairy Producers (all objectives) • Project results: • Industry representatives • Dairy and Animal Science researchers • Bovine practitioners

  3. Need for this project ? • Practical research advances within the last decade, which have led to new concepts for a variety of aspects related to the management and care of dairy calves and heifers • i.e. milk feeding programs, pain management, respiratory disease • There has been very little documented benefit of this research • There has been little understanding of how these new management schemes should best be implemented and little known about the barriers to adoption of these programs • The most suitable methods of KTT to facilitate adoption of these new practices are unknown

  4. Project Objectives • Benchmark current dairy calf and heifer management practices • Develop 3 approaches to undertaking KTT initiatives to improve awareness of, and encourage adoption of, known optimal management techniques to increase economic performance and health of animals raised for replacement stock • Evaluate and quantify both the animal health and economic performance subsequent to their initial benchmark • Disseminate case-study based benefits of optimal management systems to demonstrate both financial and animal health improvements to all Ontario dairy producers through producer meetings, print and web-based media • Evaluate and quantify financial and animal health impact to measure success and determine value on both a per farm and whole-industry basis.

  5. 3 KTT Approaches • Calf and Heifer management clubs • Web-based KTT for BMP’s for calves & heifers • Control Group Organize clubs and web modules Survey sent to producers Follow-up data collection Complete Analysis Funding April 2013 Feb. 2012 Feb. 2011 Oct. 2010 Final Reporting Data analysis and interpretation (economics animal health) Implement KTT methods Data entry from survey Survey Developed

  6. Expected Benefits and Impacts Benefits Ontario dairy producers from two key perspectives: • Economically – through reduced costs attributed to death losses, animal morbidity and associated treatment costs and reduction in compromised lifetime milk production losses • Improved welfare of dairy calves and heifers - through increased survival rates and improved health-status • To change and improve specific aspects about the management of calves and heifers on Ontario dairy farms

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