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Towards herd-specific udder health management

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This text summarizes a PhD project investigating why mastitis remains a major challenge in modern dairy production despite decades of intervention and well-established control strategies. Both clinical and subclinical mastitis continue to cause substantial economic losses, reduce productivity, increase greenhouse gas emissions, and negatively affect animal welfare. At the sameRead more

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Slovakia mastitis case study

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Mikas Farm is Slovakia has expanded from 1,200 cows in 2018 to 2,100 cows in 2023. Over the past five years the mastitis rate (cases of mastitis per 100 cows per year) has reduced from 76 to 26. This article describes the journey in reducing mastitis. The herd houses its cows all year round. Cows are milked 3X and fed a TMR diet based around maize silage. In 2018 the average yield was 35 litres/cow per day.

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