Magazine on Mastitis and Milk quality for the dairy professional
Controlling the incidence of bovine mastitis is based on reducing the exposure of cows to mastitis pathogens in the environment. This content is for M²-DIGITAL, M²-PREMIUM & NMC members only.Login or Join Now and get instant Premium access....
In the UK, the average dairy herd size is currently ~133 cows and the incidence rate of clinical mastitis (CM) is likely to be somewhere between 47 and 65 cases/100 cows/year. The national average bulk milk somatic cell count (BMSCC) …
Trends in herd udder health and risk factors can be identified by monitoring the trends of individual cow cell counts. Useful parameters are the proportion of infected cows and heifers at their first post-calving somatic cell count (SCC) check and …
Tine van Werven is Associate Professor in Dairy Herd Management at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Utrecht, the Netherlands…. This content is for M²-DIGITAL, M²-PREMIUM & NMC members only.Login or Join Now and get instant Premium access....
