Mastitis problems

Sparkymark

Member
Anyone having any trouble with mastitis at the moment?

Were doing better so far this winter.
Taking a more preventative approach. Sawdust with some lime mixed in twice a day and prills put down once a week.
We dont get any while out at grass so our mastitis is nearly always environmental.
 

Spudley

Member
Location
Pembrokeshire
No more cases than normal, currently running at 16 cases/100 cows but of those 50% are usually ecoli and nasty at that.
We have been in discussion with our vet about the merits of startvac vaccine, don't know if anyone has any experience of it
We used it for about 18 months, we came off it in March, it's very expensive and we didn't feel it was cost effective.
 

Spudley

Member
Location
Pembrokeshire
it will work out around £20/cow/year with a 3 dose cycle, did you see any reduction/less severe cases ? were your cases mostly ecoli ?
We were giving it 4 times a year.. We lost 2 cows with e coli in that 18 month period, not having lost a cow to ecoli in my recent memory. Otherwise the number of treated cows was much the same, our cell count did come down slightly but its always fine anyway.
 

Farmer Keith

Member
Location
North Cumbria
Definitely worth it if you are having trouble with ecoli, we’ve just started using it seem to just shrug it off when you do get one

Interesting why some farms have trouble with Ecoli and some don’t, it’s not something I’ve seen in over 10 years Dairy farming, do other low yielders not see it either?

Generally mastitis has quietened down here, had a few cases in August but that’s typical here, 3/4s of all the tubes I use will be at that time of year. SCC 86
 
Interesting why some farms have trouble with Ecoli and some don’t, it’s not something I’ve seen in over 10 years Dairy farming, do other low yielders not see it either?

Generally mastitis has quietened down here, had a few cases in August but that’s typical here, 3/4s of all the tubes I use will be at that time of year. SCC 86
Why August? Calving ? weather? seems an unusual time of year to have your main problem.
 

sidjon

Member
Location
EXMOOR
Currently pre foam, cluster flush, strip, milk samples every 2 weeks and changed drugs, all subclinical and a total ball ache, scc on tanker goes from 190 to 600 and back again without finding any thing
 

Shep

Member
Our ambic teat sprayer stopped working in August, we were very busy with other jobs and it wasn't got looked about, scc and clinical cases have dropped a lot since then, they may not be connected but a huge coincidence surely. I wouldn't be brave enough to just stop spraying on my own bat.
 

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