Policies and SOPs
Policies and procedures empower your team to deliver results by providing clear and consistent methods. Getting everyone involved in creating SOPs ensures that they are easy to understand and practical to follow. Using photos to describe how things should look helps understanding for team members new to the process. Placing them at point of use is practical and will save time. Review annually or when an incident or change occurs in the process.
Policies
Policies are guiding principles used to explain the way things are done at Owl Farm.
Owl Farm has the following policies:
- Health and Safety
- Code of Conduct
- Animal Welfare
- Effluent Management
- Pasture Management
Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
Procedures are a series of steps to be followed to achieve the desired end result.
Owl Farm has the following SOPs:
Pasture and Feed Management
Milking Routine
- Owl Farm SOP – Moving cows between paddock and dairy shed without Halter
- Owl Farm SOP – Dairy shed start up routine
Milking
- Owl Farm SOP – Teat washing
- Owl Farm SOP – Teat spraying
- Owl Farm SOP – Managing colostrum cows
- Owl Farm SOP – Mastitis management
Animal Health Management
- Lameness management
- Owl Farm SOP – Heat detection
- Owl Farm SOP – Humane slaughter
Youngstock Management and Rearing
- Collecting newborn calves and colostrum cows
- Caring for replacement calves in the shed
- Caring for sale calves in the shed
- Identifying and caring for sick calves
Environmental Management
