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The emphasis on mastitis control should be prevention. The keys are proper sanitation and management of non-infected and subclinically infected animals. Wet, manure-laden areas in the lactating and dry cow pens and bedding areas, and poor sanitation during the milking process increase the risk of mastitis. Udders should be clean and dry when milked. Teats should be sprayed or dipped with disinfectant after milking. Research has documented the fact that wet, muddy...
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Our thanks to the author and Conference Organisers, a Committee consisting of both University and Industry colleagues. The full paper will appear in the Conference Proceedings ('Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition - 2007', edited by Phil Garnsworthy and Julian Wiseman) published by Nottingham University Press in the autumn of 2007 www.nup.com ...
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A manufacturer of analysers designed to assess milk composition claims to have adapted their products for use in the production of high viscosity milk products - a first for the company. The development by UK group Milk-Lab, could offer dairy processors a new method for analysing beverages like milk shake, by monitoring fat and solid within the production line, the company says. Dairy firms and milk farmers continue to strive to increase efficiency and bring down costs in the...
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In the future, Kiwi dairy farmers will sleep in while robots milk their cows.
It may sound udderly ridiculous, but Ashburton feed company Winslow Ltd will next year be the first to run four milking robots in New Zealand.
Lely New Zealand general manager Peter Vis said the "Astronaut A3s would allow the cows to milk themselves".
"The labour market is pretty tight and this is reliable 24/7," he said.
"The robot never has a sick day, it never gets cold hands or a bad temper and the...
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A 'next generation' antibiotics test for milk, capable of saving dairy firms and labs time and money, will be launched by Dutch firm DSM this week.
DSM said its new Delvotest Accelerator was a fully automated testing system that could provide greater accuracy and cut the time needed to analyse milk by 30-40 per cent.
Stringent controls on antibiotics levels in milk across the EU mean dairy firms must be continuously on their guard, and obtain scrupulously accurate results, in order to...
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According to Teagasc, bulk milk somatic cell counts are increasing at a rate of about 5000 per annum. Why this is happening is anyone's guess, but the fact is, in spite of all the mastitis control programmes out there, either dairy farmers have switched off or the organisms causing the problems are managing to overcome any control programmes put in place.
More worrying though is the increasing number of cases where somatic cell counts are high on dairy farms and the farmers in question are...
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Injecting a sugar into cows' udders to mobilize an immune system response may give producers an alternative to antibiotics for fighting mastitis.
In trials at the Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) Bovine Functional Genomics Laboratory in Beltsville, Md., scientists Max Paape and Douglas Bannerman showed that injecting cows with the yeast sugar Poly-x reduced mastitis infection at one-twelfth the cost of antibiotics.
Their patent-pending approach is based on prior studies at the lab...
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High cell counts from mastitis are a very real threat to dairy farm profits.
This is especially so with factories offering differential pricing based on the quality of the milk supplied.
A cornerstone of mastitis control is an effective dry cow treatment program to cure existing udder infections and prevent the occurrence of new infections.
Many farmers have a blanket dry-cow program where every quarter of every cow is treated with a dry cow antibiotic at dry off, regardless of...
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US Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers have used gene-transfer technologies to produce dairy cows that resist mastitis.
"This research is an important first step in understanding how genes can be used to protect animals from disease," Edward B Knipling, administrator of USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) told Farming Life.
This scientific discovery, published in the current edition of Nature Biotechnology, demonstrates the potential of biotechnology for developing cattle...
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U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers have used gene-transfer technologies to produce dairy cows that resist a widespread bacterial infection called mastitis.
"This research is an important first step in understanding how genes can be used to protect animals from disease," said Edward B. Knipling, administrator of USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS).
This scientific discovery, published in the current edition of Nature Biotechnology, demonstrates the potential of...
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From a research point of view the scourge of the dairy industry that is mastitis continues a significant amount of attention internationally.
For example, a 24-month research project, due to be completed later this year, may shed some new light on how non-antibiotic-based mastitis treatments can be developed.
The work has involved the development of specific antibodies which when injected into the cow's mammary gland can attach to both the invading bacteria and the animal's protective...
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American dairy scientists have confirmed a direct link between SCC levels in milk and the probability of finding antibiotic residues.
"The risk that producers will violate international regulations with regard to antibiotics in milk increases as their herds' somatic cell counts rise," Wisconsin-based milk quality specialist, Dr Pamela Ruegg, confirmed to Farming Life.
"In fact, a high somatic cell count, or SCC, indicates that a herd has a high prevalence of sub-clinical...
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The multi-billion dollar mastitis problem continues to plague the dairy industry causing dairy farmers to search for hope in the form of seminars, advice of consultants, and promises of a variety of teat dips, hormones and vaccines. Unfortunately none of these avenues has provided meaningful relief in spite of decades of research and the evolution of protocols resulting in an industry focus on cleanliness and management with a "blame the farmer" mentality. The best efforts to manage the problem...
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Three regional meetings designed to help dairy farmers combat mastitis have been slated for early December in different locations across the state.
Texas Cooperative Extension and the Pfizer Animal Health are sponsoring the events.
Mastitis, a catch-all term that refers to an inflamation of a cow's udder, is one of the costliest diseases found on dairies.
"Recently, researchers estimated that mastitis costs dairy producers over $2 billion annually in lost revenues," said Dr. Ellen...
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Dear Users,
This is an interesting forum from our Spanish community, generated by Produvet from Venezuela:
Which is the best way of disinfecting a milking parlor and a puncher in order to reduce mastitis?
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Summer mastitis is an acute infection of the non-lactating bovine udder which commonly results in the loss of the affected quarter.
The typical case is presented with a high temperature and a hot, hard and swollen quarter with an engorged teat. This is very painful and the animal is often lame and may have swollen hocks.
When the quarter is stripped, the secretion is thick with clots and has a characteristic smell. These typical signs do not always occur and sometimes all that is found...
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