Systemic prepartum treatment of heifers with penethamate hydriodide: effect on milk yield, somatic cell count, clinical mastitis incidence and culling risk during first lactation (011-28.02.2012)

Prepartum intramammary treatment with antibiotics has frequently been proposed and evaluated as a practice to reduce the prevalence of intramammary infections in heifers at calving. The objectives of this study were (1) to test whether systemic therapy with penethamate hydriodide…...