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cellcount/mastitis ????

  • 14-02-2013 10:10pm
    #1
    feckin day gone again!!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 62 ✭✭


    went to the lab this morn with scc samples for 3 cows that calved last week.....they came back 87, 54, 102... i was delighted. One of them came in this evening with a rock hard quarter and clots in her milk... nightmare stuff. Its a battle all d time.... How could she be scc 87 at 8am and full of clots at 6pm?? i give up


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  • #2
    MOOVAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭MOOVAN


    feckin day gone again!! wrote: »
    went to the lab this morn with scc samples for 3 cows that calved last week.....they came back 87, 54, 102... i was delighted. One of them came in this evening with a rock hard quarter and clots in her milk... nightmare stuff. Its a battle all d time.... How could she be scc 87 at 8am and full of clots at 6pm?? i give up

    REtest in the morning,maybe they made a mistake or else you are dealing with an aggressive mastitis,keep this cow out in a field on her own until you know what type mastitis your dealing with and cluster dip straight away after each cow milking because if its contagious it WILL cost you a fortune.Be sure to take a sample of milk before injecting her with antibiotic or you will not get a proper result.Good luck.


  • #3
    Timmaay
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    Wow, never seen it fluctuate that quick! Back in Jan I had a cow give a milk recorded scc of 49 on a monday come down with mastitis afew days later and was annoyed with it jumping up that quick, nothing like what happened you! I'd almost ask to have her sample retested if they hung on to it to be honest!

    Possibly a stupidly obvious suggestion, but I assume you stripped her down this morning before you milked her also, maybe the teat was blocked and she only gave milk from 3 quarters, which had low SCC?


  • #4
    MOOVAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭MOOVAN


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Wow, never seen it fluctuate that quick! Back in Jan I had a cow give a milk recorded scc of 49 on a monday come down with mastitis afew days later and was annoyed with it jumping up that quick, nothing like what happened you! I'd almost ask to have her sample retested if they hung on to it to be honest!

    Possibly a stupidly obvious suggestion, but I assume you stripped her down this morning before you milked her also, maybe the teat was blocked and she only gave milk from 3 quarters, which had low SCC?

    This is a very good point


  • #5
    feckin day gone again!!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 62 ✭✭feckin day gone again!!


    yeah i always strip. No she has it for sure, went to lab again this morn with 2 samples - one from the blq and one from recording jar. Jar was 809, her quarter was 11,000.... thats not a typing error!!! sent in a mastitis culture this morn too.... im disgusted.. tubed her this morn and she had improved greatly this evening. i didnt seperate her but i rinsed jar and cluster a few times..


  • #6
    whelan1
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    feckin day gone again!! wrote: »
    yeah i always strip. No she has it for sure, went to lab again this morn with 2 samples - one from the blq and one from recording jar. Jar was 809, her quarter was 11,000.... thats not a typing error!!! sent in a mastitis culture this morn too.... im disgusted.. tubed her this morn and she had improved greatly this evening. i didnt seperate her but i rinsed jar and cluster a few times..
    do you have a cmt. this will let you know if she has mastitis straight away if it is not obvious


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