Farmers wanted

Agriculture Victoria, in collaboration with DairyBio and Melbourbne University is looking for participants in Gippsland to assist in the study on improving diseases like metritis, mastitis, ketosis, abomasum displacement, milk fever, grass tetany, lameness, retained fetal membrane, uterine prolapse, abortion and stillbirth during calving.
If you own or manage a spring or autumn calving dairy herd, consider applying to take part in this study.
During the collection process, researchers will collect blood samples from sick (any listed disease) animals and healthy cows in the first 70 days of lactation with similar calving date.
They will then genotype the cows and provide farmers with the result at no cost. Blood sample collections will start in spring 2023 to the end of 2024.
The researchers understand it's a very busy time of the year for farmers, and sampling will be planned to not disturb any routine.
For more information or to sign up, contact PhD student Anastasiia Kudriashova on 0475 850 655 or anastasiia.kudriashova@agriculture.vic.gov.au