E-coli Mastitis - root cause?

WexTK

Hi all,

had a cow go down after calving this weekend, vet blamed e-coli mastitis in a quarter....


Can anyone please explain how to minimize this in my herd? What causes it? How do I prevent it in the first place? It's an awful thing to clear up and sometimes I've resorted to culling cows just because one quarter won't clear up after treatment...

regards and thanks

whelan1

what do you bed your dry cow shed with? do you use dry cow tubes? had my first case of mastitis on 2 months yesterday- not a bad case- i am putting it down to the fact that the liners needed to be pulled out to the second notch, did that this morning so hopefully i wont have anymore

grazeaway

WexTK wrote: »

Hi all,

had a cow go down after calving this weekend, vet blamed e-coli mastitis in a quarter....


Can anyone please explain how to minimize this in my herd? What causes it? How do I prevent it in the first place? It's an awful thing to clear up and sometimes I've resorted to culling cows just because one quarter won't clear up after treatment...

regards and thanks

had that a few years back. try to keep where they lay as clean as possible. We also you a disenfectant powder (smells of clorine) and sprinkler it on the last 1/3 of the cubicle beds and along where a few of them tend to lie on the slats. works well has reduced scour and mastistis too.

loveta

[QUOTE=whelan1;830456 i am putting it down to the fact that the liners needed to be pulled out to the second notch, did that this morning so hopefully i wont have anymore[/QUOTE]
Was at a discussion group meeting back in nov/dec 2012 and i think "AHI" were involved they had a few guys there eg vets, milking machine tec guy, ect ect and two of the many things learned "some seriously simple things when ya think about it" was
1. A 70 cow herd on 2milkings a day going through a ten unit parlour need liners changed every 4 months.............. not 6months
2. This is the interesting bit the milking machine tec guy was asked about pulling the liner to the 2nd notch he reckons its of NO benefit i think he said the 2nd notch is there for one being either side of the shell

loveta

Clean and dry cubicles and we use hydrated lime once a day to kill bugs its being around along time but great for the job and cheap."make sure your teat spray is not iodine based or it and the lime will burn the teats of em" We also use teat sealers at drying off with the dc tube i reckon it has cut out the mastitis by about 95%

whelan1

loveta wrote: »

Was at a discussion group meeting back in nov/dec 2012 and i think "AHI" were involved they had a few guys there eg vets, milking machine tec guy, ect ect and two of the many things learned "some seriously simple things when ya think about it" was
1. A 70 cow herd on 2milkings a day going through a ten unit parlour need liners changed every 4 months.............. not 6months
2. This is the interesting bit the milking machine tec guy was asked about pulling the liner to the 2nd notch he reckons its of NO benefit i think he said the 2nd notch is there for one being either side of the shell

ye they said that at ours too, but i always found a difference here

WexTK

Cheers all, what about well water quality as a cause of ecoli? When they're housed prior to calving... even if the troughs are regularly cleaned could my problem have something to do with the water from the farm well I wonder??

Anyone ever associated that with the spread of Ecoli Mastitis?

whelan1

WexTK wrote: »

Cheers all, what about well water quality as a cause of ecoli? When they're housed prior to calving... even if the troughs are regularly cleaned could my problem have something to do with the water from the farm well I wonder??

Anyone ever associated that with the spread of Ecoli Mastitis?

get the dairies to test it for you

TEAT SQUEEZER

its prob not ure water thats the problem... ecoli is in the dung and its inevitable that its present on the cubicles .. use the white lime periodically or even dinsinfect the mats .. getting some pen/strep up the quarter asap is vital too