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Health Treatment

Health treatment management is essential for maintaining herd health and productivity. Lely’s farm management software Horizon offers health treatment plans, supporting you in optimizing treatment protocols, streamline administration, reduce communicational errors and bring analytical tools and overviews on diseases and treatments on your farm. 

  • Farm Management Software
8 Aug11:05 am

horizon explained

Keeping your herd healthy with Lely Horizon’s Health Treatment plans

Streamlined treatment protocols

Together with your veterinarian you can establish treatment protocols tailored to your farm’s situation. These protocols can be added in Horizon as a ‘treatment plan’, making it simpler to keep track of treatments and follow-up actions. They also remind you and the Astronaut of milk and meat withdrawal periods.

Insightful disease management

Horizon has an international disease database, a medicine library and a page dedicated to treatment plans. Based on all data related to health treatments, it provides you with valuable insights. By centralizing treatment plans within the software, Horizon supports consistency and informed decision-making across all farm workers and advisors. This centralized approach reduces miscommunication and promotes responsible use of treatments, contributing to overall herd health and wellbeing.

Efficient treatment execution

When a cow needs treatment, the farm management software helps you to register it quickly, set reminders for follow-up actions and sends the milk withdrawal period to the Astronaut directly. Pre-filled treatment plans simplify registration, ensuring precise documentation and compliance with withdrawal regulations. This is also helpful when multiple staff are working on the farm. Lely Horizon's automated withdrawal periods help prevent treated milk from entering the food chain, safeguarding both animal health and consumer safety.

Easy integration and reminders

Integrated seamlessly into daily farm operations, Horizon can provide timely reminders on scheduled treatments and vaccinations. From registering treatments to monitoring withdrawal periods, Lely Horizon streamlines every aspect of the treatment process. This integration allows for thorough analysis of treatment effects and herd health trends, empowering you to make informed, data-driven decisions for optimal herd management.

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