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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okay
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
