Reply With QuoteThanks! Interesting read.
Originally Posted by wisjag
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Thanks! Interesting read.
As prevention is better than cure always, it is always to get a better solution and knowledge about mastitis and its prevention.
Typically when clinical mastitis is detected, the cow is milked out and then given an intra-mammary infusion of antibiotic, ie., infused directly into the infected gland. Clinical mastitis symptoms are indicated in the Mastitis Clinical Syndromes resource, but most often are recognized by the milker from detection of clots or flakes in the milk, from a cow that has a quarter sensitive to the touch (she kicks a lot when you touch a particular quarter), a quarter that is swollen or hot to the touch. Because the cow's udder then contains antibiotics which must be kept out of the food supply, that cow's milk must not be put into the milk tank for some specified number of milking after treatment. Typically this milk is either dumped down the drain or used to feed calves. Clear identification of the treated cow is critical to be sure the cow's milk is not inadvertently put into the milk tank. Shipping milk contaminated with antibiotics can lead the producer to lose their permit to ship Grade A milk; that is they are out of business. use of leg-bands or some other physical marker on the cow, as well as clear records of antibiotic administration, are essential for this process. It is quite common for a cow to be treated multiple milking with the antibiotics.
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IMO the current dairyman is too attached to treatments. This ranges from mastitis tubes, dry tubes as well as repro sync programs. Focus on your cows, your people and prevention.....
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I agree . You can spend a heap of money on these sorts of things and the only winners will be your local vet practice.
"Those people who say they have no time for bodily exercise will soon have to find time for illness ". Joseph Pilates
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This is very true! My farm struggled a long time with mastitis, and we had every "expert" you could think of testing machines, culturing bedding, towels, milk, evaluating teat dip, and what it boiled down to was something so simple that I'm honestly so disgusted by it... poor post dipping, such an easy thing to do but sometimes my employees don't pay enough attention I guess. Most the time the dip would be splashed on the front teats and an empty cup would dip the back teats resulting in poor to no coverage. So my point being there's usually something more we can do to prevent mastitis because treating it sucks.
Obvisouly there are cases this doesn't apply. But cows have an amazing ability to self heal. That's why we try to add the udder comfort therapy, withhold quarter till it's clean or till we test the scc. That being said, we still have all the treatments on hand. Spec, today, pirsue etc
Bên em cung cấp loa thông minh Milo nằm trong gói giải pháp tổng thể nhà thông minh Lumi.
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That’s a cornerstone of Organic healthcare. The idea being to support and boost the cow’s immune system so she can fight off the infection themselves.
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And I never milked so many 3 titters or ever had the need to hang on to a 1 titter till I milked an organic herd.
Systemic therapy.The diseased cattle were injected with 2 million to 2.5 million IU penicillin twice a day. If the diseased cow suffers from acute severe mastitis, it can be injected intravenously with 500 mL 25% glucose, 1500 mL 5% sugar saline, 100 mL compound berberine bisulfate and 100 mL vitamin C twice a day.
Thanks for sharing！
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