Animal Health and Disease Management
Animal Health and Disease Management
About the Class
What causes the highest economic losses in dairy farms? You got it right. It’s none other than diseases in dairy animals that causes major problems for farmers. None of you may want your animals to suffer from diseases, but the fact remains that diseases appear in dairy farms without taking anyone's permission.
It may sometimes happen that your neighboring dairy farm may purchase new animals that could carry some infectious diseases. Without your knowledge, new forms of infectious diseases can reach your farm and affect your animals.
A few types of diseases cause severe forms of disabilities in dairy animals and reduce their milk production and reproductive performance permanently. When you are in the dairy business, you must know about these diseases so that you can get timely treatment for your animals.
When you learn about diseases and know the factors that cause such diseases you can take all the steps to prevent them from affecting your dairy animals.
At Teplu, we believe that a successful dairy farmer should focus on disease prevention rather than on treatment alone. That’s what we have found to work well for the numerous successful dairy farmers associated with us.
We have brought together the knowledge of the most experienced veterinary doctors and field experts to create a unique course on animal health and disease management for you. Join this online course to reduce diseases in your farm and increase your farm profits.
How can this course help you?
The course has been structured in such a way that it will help you remember the common causes of diseases while carrying out the daily activities on your farm. Whether you have an existing dairy farm or are starting a new farm, this course on animal health and disease management will help you a lot.
This video-based course will introduce you to the different types of diseases and the causes of the diseases in dairy animals. You will be taught how to prevent these diseases from affecting the animals on your farm.
You will learn about the common symptoms associated with diseases and as a result, you will be able to identify them quickly at your farm. This knowledge will help you prevent the transmission of the disease to other animals.
When an animal falls sick on your farm, then milk production goes down. If the animals are pregnant, then there could be chances of abortion and their body condition can get affected. During such times, you should be able to identify what the problem is and take the help of a good veterinarian to control and cure it as soon as possible.
But till the time the veterinary doctor arrives at your farm, you should be prepared to handle the situation with some first aid techniques. This chapter will help you to be prepared for confidently facing such practical problems.
Course Instructors:
Dr. Milind Keshav Kulkarni is a B.V.Sc. and A.H. professional with over 37 years of practical experience in the field of veterinary science and animal husbandry. He finds mention in the prestigious India Book of Records 2019, as the being from the “Family with Most Generations of Veterinary Doctors”. Four continuous generations of his family have been working as veterinary doctors from the year 1918 to 2018.
He has wide experience and expertise in managing diseases and health problems of dairy animals. Having worked as a livestock development officer in several veterinary polyclinics, he has treated thousands of animals over the years. As assistant commissioner of animal husbandry department with the government of Maharashtra, India, he has gained deep insights and helped farmers solve the practical problems that are associated with dairy farming.
Dr. Shailesh Shamrao Madane is a B.V.Sc. & A. H. professional who graduated from Bombay Veterinary College, Mumbai. He has over ten years of rich experience and is a renowned dairy farm consultant. He has helped numerous farmers set farms that produce clean, residue-free milk. With a razor-sharp focus on the welfare of dairy animals, he has helped farmers set up profitable and sustainable farms. He has also trained thousands of farmers and helped them resolve several pressing problems.
He also provides consultancy to some of the most reputed companies in the livestock sector. As a winner of the GRMF award, he has studied in quality milk production services laboratory for 3 months at Cornell University, New York, USA. He has also worked as an extension expert of the animal husbandry department of Maharashtra.
Who should take this course?
This course is intended to benefit dairy farmers, students, professionals, entrepreneurs who want to set up new dairy farms or improve their existing dairy farms. Our online course can be used by institutions such as NGOs, companies, and others for large scale training and development.
You don't need to have any qualifications to be eligible for this online course. In fact, our video-based courses are designed with such simplicity that any person can learn and implement scientific processes on the farm.