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<blockquote data-quote="Putangitangi" data-source="post: 1016815" data-attributes="member: 5956"><p>We started using a few mls of a Chlorhexidine antiseptic in the cow's washing water after our first cow kept getting mastitis. I'd attended a veterinary lecture which included a report of a dairy farmer who'd been found to be causing similar infections in his cows and they'd then reinfected him, causing all sorts of nasty skin lesions and it was that which caused me to wonder what sort of bacterial skin population my milking partner hosts! The cow had had a sub-clinical infection, but detectable on testing the milk, throughout a whole season. We cleared her with antibiotics at the end of that season and she began the next clear. Within two weeks she had clinical mastitis. We treated her and used the antiseptic in small quantities from then on and have never had a recurrence of the problem. The antiseptic in the water is primarily for the milker's hands, to hit the bacteria he was presumably leaving on the cow. I doubt it's a common problem, but I'm glad we nailed it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Putangitangi, post: 1016815, member: 5956"] We started using a few mls of a Chlorhexidine antiseptic in the cow's washing water after our first cow kept getting mastitis. I'd attended a veterinary lecture which included a report of a dairy farmer who'd been found to be causing similar infections in his cows and they'd then reinfected him, causing all sorts of nasty skin lesions and it was that which caused me to wonder what sort of bacterial skin population my milking partner hosts! The cow had had a sub-clinical infection, but detectable on testing the milk, throughout a whole season. We cleared her with antibiotics at the end of that season and she began the next clear. Within two weeks she had clinical mastitis. We treated her and used the antiseptic in small quantities from then on and have never had a recurrence of the problem. The antiseptic in the water is primarily for the milker's hands, to hit the bacteria he was presumably leaving on the cow. I doubt it's a common problem, but I'm glad we nailed it. [/QUOTE]
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