Dairy Cow Environment and Mastitis Control

                                                                        Topics for the Day

        • Why focus on the environment?

                    o Legislation

                    o Positive welfare

                    o Cow behaviour

                    o Changing epidemiology of disease – mastitis infections great example

                    o Housed v Pasture environments

        • Housed environment

                    o Building design overview

                    o Ventilation

                    o Cubicles

        • Monitoring and control of mastitis infections

                    o Herd Examples (in groups?)

                    o 3 recent examples (all housed ones)

                    o 3 groups - 3 scenarios – 10 minutes prep time and each group report back

        • Housed environment

                    o Bedding

                    o Collection and dispersal

                    o Cow flow

                    o Robot herds?

        • Research update

                    o “Living space” – new metric and research

        • Questions and Discussion