The Mastitis Game Plan!
New industry recommendations for making drying off decisions aiming at less antibiotics, lower cell counts and more milk! Drying off is the time to set up the farm for less mastitis and a bulk milk somatic cell count (BMSCC) consistently under 150,000 cells/mL in the next season.
Routine use of anti-inflammatories…
Written by Reon McMurtrie
NSAID products are pain-killers – the animal formulations are akin to human medications Neurofen and Voltaren. NSAIDs also help to reduce tissue damage caused by swelling and inflammation and moderate the immune response. They may enable better penetration of antibiotics to a site of infection.