Start of the D4Dairy pilot surveys - training courses for the recording of BCS and lameness

After one year of intensive preparations, the pilot surveys in D4Dairy will start in January 2020. For the LKV-employees, who are in charge of the participating D4Dairy pilot farms, it will now be intensive. Over the next one and a half years, they will regularly record health data such as BCS and the locomotion score. To prepare them accordingly, there were some extensive training sessions, most recently at the LFS Kirchberg am Walde near Grafendorf near Hartberg and at the dairy farm Reindl in Straßwalchen in Salzburg.

Photos below: Training of the LKV employees to record BCS and lameness. During the training in Salzburg, Robert Pesenhofer (claw care instructor) and Johann Häusler (HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein) were available as experts. Photos: Thomas Oskar, Lfl OÖ.