Although there is increasing concern over routine administration of long-acting antibiotics to all cows at the end of lactation, the practice is required to eliminate subclinical infections that are present at drying off. Alternatives to dry cow therapy (DCT) for preventing new infections from occur...

Milk samples from 50 sheep on a single Scottish research farm were collected weekly for 10 wk postpartum. Samples were analyzed for somatic cell counts (SCC) each week and bacteriologic culture was done for 7 of the 10 wk. A total of 492 udder half samples were cultured, of which 467 had correspondi...

Effective aids to decision-making for clinical mastitis therapy are reviewed..

A total of 1317 Holstein cows from 45 farms in the Canadian provinces of Quebec, Prince Edward Island (PEI) and Ontario, Canada were enrolled in a randomized trial between 1998 and 1999 to further confirm the efficacy of a monensin controlled release capsule in preventing periparturient disease in l...