Mastitis Care for Farm Animals
Mastitis Care for Farm Animals in Co. Cork
Effective mastitis care is crucial for maintaining the health and productivity of your farm animals. At Millstreet Veterinary Group, we offer comprehensive services tailored to address mastitis issues and minimize their impact on your herd. From prompt treatment of clinical cases to in-depth investigations and analysis, our expert veterinary team is dedicated to enhancing your herd’s well-being and optimizing farm profitability.
Our Mastitis Care Services
Our work on mastitis can be divided into four areas:
- Individual Clinical Cases: Intensive care and prompt treatment of clinincal cases are available 24 hours a day.
- Investigation of Rising SCC / Increasing Number of Clinical Mastitis Cases: These problems can indicate that a wider herd issue is present. There can be many causes of this, and a thorough investigation will be needed to identify and rectify the cause. We have the skills and expertise to do this, using CellCheck guidelines and training as well as our many years of experience.
- Analysis of Milk Recording Data: We also offer a service where we analyze your milk recording data for patterns and changes in SCC and nutritional markers that will affect production. Used in conjunction with on-farm visits to discuss herd management and the environment, it can be a powerful tool for increasing profitability. We will routinely discuss these results with you and make recommendations to maximize the health and production potential of your herd.
- Bacterial Culture and Antibiotic Sensitivity: We do this to guide and advise you as to the best choice of antibiotics for both treating clinical cases and the choice of dry-cow tube. We advise taking samples from all clinical cases before treating and putting them in the freezer if not requesting culture. This gives you a bank of samples to culture if problems occur later and may help with any investigation of a mastitis/ SCC problem that might arise in the future. Culture and sensitivity are also useful prior to drying off cows as a guide as to the most useful tube to use on your herd. Samples can be taken from the bulk tank or preferably from cows with high SCC of recent origin. Samples from cows with an SCC between 500,000 and 100,000 are the most useful as they are the most likely to be typical of what is currently affecting your herd.
