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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 1072411" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>The cell count is normal for this time of year - it will go up a little in late lactation but I expect to average 100,000 - 130,000 for the whole season. I don't know what I'm doing right but it's probably a bit of everything. Teat spraying, finding and treating clinicals, culling repeat cases. I'm big on keeping perfect teat condition and add emollient to the teat spray to ensure that.</p><p>The milking shed has a lot to do with it & I don't have a lot of control over that.</p><p>We get financial penalties for milk over 400,000 here. I think the average for New Zealand is sitting around 220,000. What we do find is that the causes of mastitis are different here than in the UK or US. Management systems are different, yes, but I wouldn't overlook that big expanse of ocean all around us, especially when I read that you guys have antibiotic resistance issues we haven't seen here yet.</p><p></p><p>Curtis, when I do get mastitis is usually during calving in the spring. If we have a week of wet weather and the cows are calving into mud, I'll get a big cluster of cases of clinical mastitis. The weather clears up and it goes back to normal. I get about as much mastitis as the average farm, but as far as I can tell my thresholds for identifying and treating it are a lot lower - as in, some of what I treat would be categorised as subclinical.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 1072411, member: 9267"] The cell count is normal for this time of year - it will go up a little in late lactation but I expect to average 100,000 - 130,000 for the whole season. I don't know what I'm doing right but it's probably a bit of everything. Teat spraying, finding and treating clinicals, culling repeat cases. I'm big on keeping perfect teat condition and add emollient to the teat spray to ensure that. The milking shed has a lot to do with it & I don't have a lot of control over that. We get financial penalties for milk over 400,000 here. I think the average for New Zealand is sitting around 220,000. What we do find is that the causes of mastitis are different here than in the UK or US. Management systems are different, yes, but I wouldn't overlook that big expanse of ocean all around us, especially when I read that you guys have antibiotic resistance issues we haven't seen here yet. Curtis, when I do get mastitis is usually during calving in the spring. If we have a week of wet weather and the cows are calving into mud, I'll get a big cluster of cases of clinical mastitis. The weather clears up and it goes back to normal. I get about as much mastitis as the average farm, but as far as I can tell my thresholds for identifying and treating it are a lot lower - as in, some of what I treat would be categorised as subclinical. [/QUOTE]
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