Hi everyone.
I am needing urgent advice as our bactoscan/TBC is through the roof
It has been up until recently, ALWAYS below 10.....normally 4 and it has now progressively gone up.
Looking back on records.....it has increased from day one when we started to use a mastitis bolus..treating high cell counts with bolus and still putting milk in tank. That was in August. The next test revealed a TBC of 46 .. And it has got worse!
It was never at anytime mentioned about the possibility of causing a high bactoscan. The salesman kept emphasizing that it would reduce SCC. We have replaced liners, checked bulk tank, replaced pipes and the next step is looking at the plate cooler. We can only do one thing at a time and the NMR IT crisis isn't helping much. Plus the fact our milk processor only can get results to us once a week . I thank them for their patience.
So....in order to avoid penalties in OCT supply we now are DUMPING all milk from cows treated for mastitis and using antibiotics, in the hope that our bactoscan figure will go back to normal.
Can our recent high TBC just be a coincidence? I thought so too until I read this article....
Mastitic Organisms Mastitis is a common cause of bacterial contamination. Milk from a healthy quarter will have low bacterial levels, usually under 1,000/ml. When quarters become infected with clinical mastitis, the numbers of bacteria can increase substantially. Streptococcus agalactiae is shed in extremely high numbers from clinically infected quarters, up to 100,000,000/ml. Strep uberis can produce the same effect.
Does the above suggest......WE are doing the harm by putting the milk into the bulk tank?
Please advise.
I am needing urgent advice as our bactoscan/TBC is through the roof
It has been up until recently, ALWAYS below 10.....normally 4 and it has now progressively gone up.
Looking back on records.....it has increased from day one when we started to use a mastitis bolus..treating high cell counts with bolus and still putting milk in tank. That was in August. The next test revealed a TBC of 46 .. And it has got worse!
It was never at anytime mentioned about the possibility of causing a high bactoscan. The salesman kept emphasizing that it would reduce SCC. We have replaced liners, checked bulk tank, replaced pipes and the next step is looking at the plate cooler. We can only do one thing at a time and the NMR IT crisis isn't helping much. Plus the fact our milk processor only can get results to us once a week . I thank them for their patience.
So....in order to avoid penalties in OCT supply we now are DUMPING all milk from cows treated for mastitis and using antibiotics, in the hope that our bactoscan figure will go back to normal.
Can our recent high TBC just be a coincidence? I thought so too until I read this article....
Mastitic Organisms Mastitis is a common cause of bacterial contamination. Milk from a healthy quarter will have low bacterial levels, usually under 1,000/ml. When quarters become infected with clinical mastitis, the numbers of bacteria can increase substantially. Streptococcus agalactiae is shed in extremely high numbers from clinically infected quarters, up to 100,000,000/ml. Strep uberis can produce the same effect.
Does the above suggest......WE are doing the harm by putting the milk into the bulk tank?
Please advise.
