Browsing through the Merck vet manual I came across this on mastitis.
Any one of the folks on here ever taken off a teat by banding? I've seen them plain cut off to allow drainage of a really bad infection -- makes an awful mess of the udder though and it has been fatal. Was wondering if banding might take the teat off without those problems. Just not milking the affected quarter has been working fine, except that there's a couple three-quarter cows that still look like four-quarter cows and a couple cow milkers that seem to have trouble remembering which is the don't-touch staph quarter that isn't being milked.
Alternatively, it is common to dry off the infected quarter and continue to milk the cow. .... Other methods of stopping a quarter from milking are simply to stop milking the quarter or to excise the teat through banding.
Any one of the folks on here ever taken off a teat by banding? I've seen them plain cut off to allow drainage of a really bad infection -- makes an awful mess of the udder though and it has been fatal. Was wondering if banding might take the teat off without those problems. Just not milking the affected quarter has been working fine, except that there's a couple three-quarter cows that still look like four-quarter cows and a couple cow milkers that seem to have trouble remembering which is the don't-touch staph quarter that isn't being milked.