Relatório do estágio curricular supervisionado em Medicina Veterinária- bovinocultura de leite

Abstract

This report describes the activities carried out and / or developed during the performance Supervised Curricular Internship in Veterinary Medicine (ECSMV), in the area of dairy cattle. ECSMV was supervised by Professor Mirela Noro and supervised by Veterinarian Chester Patrique Batista. The internship period took place between the 4th of January 2016 to May 4, 2016, making a total of 768 hours of work. The ECSMV was held at Fazenda Santa Isabel, a commercial herd located in the city of Condor, RS. The farm has a herd of 600 milking cows, with an average of 18,822 liters of milk. milk / year. During the internship period, the farm's routines were monitored, from the monitoring of milking, handling with cows and calves, medical clinic, clinic surgical, obstetrics, reproduction and animal nutrition. This report discusses the effects of thermal stress on the production of dairy cows and monitoring the health of the calves. During the internship, several activities were monitored, especially those of animal health monitoring, such as locomotion score, rumination, filling ruminal, and feces, as well as monitoring diets, such as stratifying the diet by Penn State® sieve, dry matter determination of food, and evaluation of digestibility by stool evaluation. Heat stress in dairy cows is a reality representative and impactful effect on the country's milk production, reducing milk production, of conception and pregnancy of the herd. Within a concept of animal welfare, globally contextualized, it is important to know this reality, as well as knowing how to diagnose the problem and solve it, avoiding losses and improving the welfare of cows. On the other hand, monitoring the health of calves, becomes necessary when thinking about improving the herd and the quality of the matrices present, since the annual disposal rate reaches up to 30%. Therefore, care for good breeding becomes an essential activity. The internship provided great learning in front of a commercial farm of high production cows, allowing the greatest link with the area of professional interest, in order to contribute to personal and academic training.