The STAMP project aims to reduce antimicrobial use in calf rearing by developing a risk assessment tool that identifies environmental and management factors contributing to ill health, thereby promoting healthier animals and fostering better vet-farmer communication.
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hi um my name is amy craig and um i'd
just like to present
a bit of work we've been doing within
the stamp project so
the aim of the whole stamp project has
really been to reduce
uh antimicrobial use and george has
demonstrated how
that can be measured and controlled and
anna has given us some practical
solutions to reducing
routine antibiotic use but another way
that we can reduce antibiotic use
is to create and maintain an environment
which will reduce the risk of ill health
because healthy animals will not need antibiotics
antibiotics
at the start of the stamp project a
little bit of scoping
was carried out and the cav rearing
phase was identified as an area
that has high antimicrobial use and this
isn't just a
northern ireland problem it is a
worldwide problem for example in the
netherlands they've had
antimicrobial benchmarking since uh
2009 and farms that reach a certain
level are are given a signaling value
and they get a warning
and most young stock farms within north
the netherlands are still above the
signaling value whereas
the dairy sector as a whole has seen a
drop and antimicrobial use
a recent survival they also find that
about 50
of northern ireland calves have been
treated for ill health by four months
and that will lead to lower growth rates
and therefore those calves will be less
likely to reach a target of calving at
24 months
now the two main contributors to calvil
health are the environment
and also the cab management so if we
have a dirty environment
it's going to be a high pathogen load and
and
poor management maybe the calf not
getting enough colostrum
then that cable exposed to high disease risk
risk
on the other hand calves that have a
cleaner environment
with less pathogen load good management
in terms of colostrum
dry bedding etc then those calves will
have a lower disease risk
and therefore a lower chance that those
cats will get ill
and need antibiotics so the objective of
this part of the study then was to
create a risk assessment or decision
support tool that would be able to deliver
deliver
weird scores on various aspects of
management and environment to be able to pinpoint
pinpoint
where the high risk is and then provide
management information to the farmer
to help him reduce this risk score
also a key thing throughout stamp is we
really want to have good conversations
between the vet
and the farmer so we can have ongoing measurable
measurable
improvement in calf health the aim again
is to have healthy animals that will not need
need
antimicrobials so to do this
we started with a literature review uh
researching what are the high risk areas
and what are the hype what are the best practices
practices
and in terms of calf management and nutrition
nutrition
and then we built a user-friendly survey and
and
built that on the successful template of
the unis risk assessment that had been delivered
delivered
previously by animal health and welfare
and i and what we wanted in
the this stamp survey was to have
instant results on farm
so that as uh farmers and vets
were doing the survey that they would
get the immediate
results in terms of the score and then
while standing in the calf house the
farmer and vet can have those
conversations about how to improve
calf management so
we then roll this out through our the
veterinary practices that are involved
within the stamp project
and then finally we'd like to launch
this as a
tool that would be available for the
wider and dairy industry
so then the risk assessment that we
created there's eight sections
and within the sections then there are
13 multiple choice questions per section
so we need to make this as short as
possible so it's actually feasible to do
and so we were just looking for those
high risk areas those
real key points within each of these sections
sections
so the sections that were covered in the
risk assessment
are calving pens colostrum management
calf nutrition calf housing sick pens
the stock person's attitude whole farm biosecurity
biosecurity
and an optional section on
automatic milk feeder because not all
farms will have these
at the end of each section then the
farmer is given a score
and then an overall score at the end of
the risk assessment uh whole farm score
so this was uh you we used the snap mobile
mobile
software to be able to do this the good
things about snap is that we can have a
weighted score so for example here you
can see the
calving pens section and then we have
the question
with the various answers and behind each
of those answers then
there is a weight or a score the other
thing with snap is that we can get
instant results
uh even offline so if you're in a calf
house and we don't have reception
or wi-fi then it still works
so uh in terms of rolling it out in the
pilot phase
we have three veterinary practices
involved within the stamp project
and then there are other industry
members that were interested
who also gave us some feedback and we
had 10 farms in total
and the vets or advisors conducted these
assessments on farm
and what we really wanted was to test
this risk assessment
on a wide range of farm sizes and systems
systems
to be able to see and that it would fit
with the majority of farms so
after the vets had conducted the
assessment then they gave us feedback
we weren't really interested in the
former scores per se
but more feedback on where the questions appropriate
appropriate
did the vet feel that the scoring system
was appropriate and gave the farmer a
fair score
for his system and that yes it
worked in different systems different
housing uh
setups etc and then also to see how easy
or how useful this tool was for the vet
to be able to give feedback to the
farmer and to start those discussions
about uh improving cav health etc
so we have gathered this feedback and
we'll incorporate that into the creation
of the final tool
and which will have some other elements
and added in
as well so the snap survey is still available
available
if anybody would be interested in
reviewing it and be able to give us some
more feedback so if if you would like to
do that then please do ask for details
so the pilot trial has now been
completed and we have processed the
feedback so the next stage then is
developing the final tool and we're
going to do that in-house within acme
and we have a target that we would like
to launch this in the summer
so the features that will be included in
the final tool which are not on the snap
version we want to be able to identify
the high risk
scores or what's driving the high risk
scores that we can identify
what areas need improvement and
highlight this to the vet or the farmer
and then also have a database where we can
can
depending on the individual farm risk
score and what is driving that risk
score then management notes
that relate to that can be given to the farmer
farmer
and these are things that have been
published previously either by afb
ag research cafre even sruc and htv
there's a lot of good information out
there and it's just getting that
information in small snippets
to the farmer another thing we would
like to add into the
final tool is a prompt to redo the
survey after 12 months because it would
be good to see
if the farmer has implemented the
best practice for those areas he had
been prompted on before
then he will get a new score hopefully
a new management notes about different
areas then that he can continue to
improve so we see this continuous improvement
improvement
in the cab environment so the impact we
would like to see
from this tool is that along with other research
research
that we would be able to improve the
quality of housing environments
the nutrition and management of these
pre-green calves we want healthier stock
for a future milking heart
but also it will help us reduce
antimicrobial use if these animals
are having a healthy cathode we also
really want to use this as a way that we
can spark discussion between vets and
farmers to improve
herd health so instead of the vet coming
in after the disease breakout
that the vet would have been there
before to talk through protocols for
sick animals
to go through vaccination schedules and
just general
herd health plans and the vet would and
farmer would have this close relationship
relationship
um to protect the animal health and welfare
welfare
in terms of further outputs uh we would
like this to
uh be a template then that can be used
to inform and develop
further risk assessments that don't
necessarily need to be confined calves
are daring but could be picked up by
researchers and expanded to cover other
sectors too
and idea this will be integrated within
future developments
by animal health and welfare mi so we
can have a one-stop shop for
various farm uh risk assessments so that industry
industry
can be going to one place traveling bits
and pieces
um all over the place so thank you very
much for your interest
and uh thank you as well to the best practices
practices
and also partners within stamp for their
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