Information for Farmers
The UBC Dairy Education and Research Centre participates in ProAction, the national quality assurance program for the Canadian dairy sector. The ProAction assurance program is divided into six distinct areas: milk quality, food safety, animal care, livestock traceability, biosecurity, and environment.
Below we provide the links to all of our current standard operating procedures (SOP). Please feel free to download any of our SOP’s if you feel they will be useful to you on your farm.
Standard Operating Procedures
Cows
- Cattle Blood Sampling
- Lameness Gait Scoring and Hoof Health
- Downer Cows
- Fit to Transport
- Drying Off Cows
- Cow Calving Intervention
- Cow Stall Maintenance
- Giving Vaccinations
- Giving Injections: Subcutaneous (SC), Intramuscular (IM) and Intravenous (IV)
- Giving Calcium
- Administering Oral Medications
- Night Check
- Milking Procedure
- Clinical Mastitis
- Displaced Abomasum
- Collecting Sterile Milk Samples
- Ketosis
- Metritis
- Pneumonia
