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Mastitis
DairyCo mastitis plan - This is the biggest advance in dairy cow mastitis control for 60 years. Please contact either M Bardsley of S Edge for details at the Beccles practice. Click here to read more details.
Mastitis is the most common and expensive disease in the modern dairy herd. If not controlled it may involve 40% or more of the herd. World-wide the annual cost has been estimated at £95 per cow. In a herd of 100 cows with mastitis rate of 65 cases per annum and a bulk somatic cell count of 200,000 the annual cost of mastitis would typically be £9,100. How is this cost calculated? The list below summarises the areas of loss due to mastitis:
• Annual milk loss
• Loss of milk production
• Treatment and veterinary costs
• Costs of discarded milk
• Culling of infected animals
• Reduced value of milk through diary contract penalties.
Mastitis is caused by organisms gaining entrance through the teat sphincter or canal:
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Subclinical mastitis produces the most economic damage.
Early diagnosis of the organism causing an outbreak of mastitis is essential.
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