DCRC’s Portuguese webinar features metritis prevention, economic impact

“Metritis: Prevalence, economic impact, and prevention in dairy herds” (Metrite: prevalencia, impacto economico e prevencao em rebanhos leiteiros), presented in Portuguese, is the featured topic for the next Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council (DCRC) webinar. The free webinar starts at 2 p.m. Central time (Chicago time) on July 8. Klibs N. Galvão, University of Florida, will serve as the instructor for this one-hour webinar.

To register for this webinar, go to: https://bit.ly/DCRCWebJuly8. If you are a DCRC member and cannot attend the live program, you may access the webinar recording at www.dcrcouncil.org after July 22.

Metritis is highly prevalent and typically treated with antibiotics. When making antibiotic treatment decisions, consider cow welfare, increased antimicrobial resistance, and the economic impact of not treating the cow. Treatment with antibiotics increases the cure rate; therefore, considering the welfare of cows diagnosed with metritis, the increase in cure rate alone might justify antibiotic treatment. However, metritis has a high self-cure rate. Thus, leaving cows untreated at the time of metritis diagnosis and only treating those that do not self-cure or present worsening of clinical signs might slow the development of antimicrobial resistance. Looking at the economic impact, antibiotic treatment resulted in decreased metritis-related costs, mostly due to reduced milk losses.

Galvão is a professor of food animal reproduction and medicine in the department of large animal clinical sciences at the University of Florida. He completed a residency in dairy production medicine and a master’s degree in preventive veterinary medicine at the University of California-Davis, and then earned a PhD in reproductive physiology at Cornell University. Galvão’s research focuses on uterine immunology and microbiology in health and disease, epidemiological investigation of the risk factors for uterine disease, development of therapeutics for prevention and treatment of uterine disease, and the use of herd simulation models and budget impact analysis to understand how uterine disease and impaired fertility affect the profitability of dairy herds.

For more information about DCRC’s webinars, e-mail Eduardo Oliveira, DCRC Education Committee chair, at: eduardo.oliveira@zoetis.com.

The Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council is focused on bringing together all sectors of the dairy industry – producers, consultants, academia and allied industry professionals – for improved reproductive performance. DCRC provides an unprecedented opportunity for all groups to work together to take dairy cattle reproduction to the next level.