HealthyLife
Programme for Sustainable Dairy Farming
Making sustainable dairy farming more profitable
HealthyLife
Programme for Sustainable Dairy Farming
Making sustainable dairy farming more profitable
Utilizing the full milk production potential with HealthyLife
To feed the ever-increasing world population in a sustainable way, the full production potential of each animal on a farm needs to be utilised. More milk needs to be produced, using less resources, to reduce the environmental footprint.
For dairy cows, this means increasing the average milk production per day of life, from birth to culling, otherwise known as their Lifetime Daily Yield (LDY)1,2.
Lifetime Daily Yield can be increased by managing the transition to lactation in an optimal way. The amount of scientific articles and information about transition management in dairy cows is however simply overwhelming.
HealthyLife makes life easy, by translating the latest science about dairy cow transition management into simple and practical protocols.
HealthyLife Webinar 2021
Watch 5 specialists sharing their expertise on how sustainable dairy farming will result in more profitability
The topics that are being addressed are: “Lifetime Daily Yield”, “Optimal number of lactations for a dairy herd”, “Impact of systemic immune activation on transition”, “Managing hindgut health” and “How to reach 5 lactations”.
The HealthyLife programme will increase Lifetime Daily Yield
The transition to lactation has an enormous impact on the immune system, the digestive system and the metabolism of a dairy cow. This requires 3 adaptations:
These 3 adaptations are not independent, they influence each other. The HealthyLife programme offers a holistic approach to these 3 adaptations and deals with some of the challenges a cow has to deal with during transition to lactation. The HealthyLife programme will help to:
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See how sustainable dairy farming will result in more profitability of your farm
In contrast to common belief, it is very well possible to run a farm in a sustainable way while generating a healthy income.
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4 key HealthyLife indicators that help improve the Lifetime Daily Yield on your farm.
How farmer Peer Claassen reached a lifetime production of 50,000 kg milk per year
For Peer Claassen, sustainable dairy farming means increasing longevity of his dairy herd. By giving his cows a place to eat, a place to rest and a place to calve, they have a smooth transition to lactation, the replacement rate of his dairy cows is low and his cows reach 5 lactations.
Making dairy farming more sustainable according to farmer Mathijs Meijer
According to Mathijs, sustainability of dairy farming can be improved by increasing Lifetime Daily Yield. Profits start coming in from the 3rd lactation onwards. Longevity of his herd was increased by grouping cows according to their needs, which resulted in a serious reduction of the involuntary culling rate. Mathijs wants to make sure that it is him who decides when a cow should leave the herd.
Veterinary view on increasing Lifetime Daily Yield of a dairy herd
Lifetime Daily Yield can be increased by improving health of a dairy herd. This requires a tailormade health plan for each farm that allows cows to reach their genetic production potential.
HealthyLife targets to increase resilience of dairy cows
To achieve a Lifetime Daily Yield of at least 20kg of milk per day, the following targets must be reached19,21,22,23,24,25.
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How to transform your farm to make sustainable dairy farming more profitable?
The brochure: “HealthyLife programme to increase longevity of dairy cows” presents that HealthyLife programme including some of the scientific information that forms the basis for the programme. It also presents an overview of the support available to implement a HealthyLife programme.
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You can access all of our documentation about HealthyLife protocols, sustainable dairy farming and latest research insights about Dairry Cow transition management.
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The brochure: “Background to the HealthyLife programme” presents the HealthyLife programme including some of the scientific information that forms the basis for the programme. The brochure “The HealthyLife offering” is more action oriented and presents an overview of the support available to implement a HealthyLife programme.
Download our brochures and learn more about the HealthyLife programme for dairy cows