Self cure mastitis

[Devon lad]

We’ve been dipping our feet in the water with letting our 5000 litre spring calving x breds self cure. They’re mid lactation and our mastitis is nearly always strep uberis. We just strip, milk as normal, disinfect unit and uddermint 1/4 after they milk out. Been doing this for a month or so. There’s still a few clots and a bit of swelling but they seem happy enough. Any tips and how long would you udder mint for?
TIA

 

[lazy farmer]

We are big fans of strep Uberis
We have found that self curing will get rid of the clots but not the cell count and they will occasionally have a swollen quarter. We have found drying off the quarter gives better cure rates and removes the human element of having to dip units in between cows,which always goes well !
Regarding uddermint we always use for a week as part of a treatment protocol.

 

[jondear]

Been doing the same for 5years and more .
Just use udermint as necessary really .You sort of get to know whether it's doing anygood or not . Healthy cows will return to normal usually .Have 2 high cell count cows currently milking in bucket out of 110
Cc 120 average below 200
Bacto last 3 test 8,5,8

 

[pappuller]

Been doing the same for 5years and more .
Just use udermint as necessary really .You sort of get to know whether it's doing anygood or not . Healthy cows will return to normal usually .Have 2 high cell count cows currently milking in bucket out of 110
Cc 120 average below 200
Bacto last 3 test 8,5,8

Do you find that they reoffend ? Do you cmt ?

 

[jondear]

Do you find that they reoffend ? Do you cmt ?

Cmt to check ok to go in . Sometimes the odd one will come back usually older ones that shouldn't be keeping .

 

[Hotspur]

Recent Vet advice to us was treat Strep Uberis with Antibiotics, let the mild E-colis self cure.
I just don't know who to listen to

 

[Devon lad]

I guess the vets selling drugs would say that, what do organic guys do with strep uberis?

 

[Rossymons]

Recent Vet advice to us was treat Strep Uberis with Antibiotics, let the mild E-colis self cure.
I just don't know who to listen to

There's a mild case of e.coli? My experience has been that the e.coli cases are fairly good at sorting themselves out. Sadly.

 

[Treemover]

I haven't milked in year, but then the rule was to try alternatives to antibiotics first, so we like the OP would draw out the quarter, massage with Uddermint and various equivalents. I think we even got organic tubes, which I never used, but I hear were hit and miss anyway. If the cow didn't improve, then we would use an antibiotic tube. before others jump on saying its not different to conventional it is. We dont get to treat the same, or the same timeframe. As a result, we have a lot of cows, with 3 quarters,, and even 2 quarters. I was hoping to get the parlour Information system running, which would show what cows were getting effected, how much we were loosing in milk, and if any link was in bloodline. Theres cows, that never seem to get mastitis, and Id rather replacements out of them.

 

[Hotspur]

There's a mild case of e.coli? My experience has been that the e.coli cases are fairly good at sorting themselves out. Sadly.

E-coli can be so mild you don't even notice it or a dead cow you throw everything bar the kitchen sink at her.