Systemic Dry Cow Therapy - A Preliminary Report

Economic aspects of dry cow therapy

Dry cow therapy has been part of mastitis control since the 1970s and has been one point of the five point scheme. In many countries many, if not most, dairy farmers apply dry cow therapy as part of their farm specific mastitis control plan. The general advice in the five point plan is that all cows, at drying off, should be treated with a specific long acting antibiotic formulation the blanket...

Antibiotic dry cow therapy: where next?

Control of Mastitis through dry cow therapy: A review

Introduction Mastitis is one of the most economically important diseases of milch animals and also causes the changes in glandular tissues affecting quality and quantity of milk [1]. Mastitis continues to be the most costly disease of dairy animals. Field surveys of major livestock diseases in Pakistan have ranked mastitis as number one disease of dairy animals [2,3]. In Nili-Ravi buffaloes, ma...

Mastitis Prevention and Cure Rates in Heifers Treated with Spectramast Dry Cow Therapy and/or Orbeseal Dry Cow Teat Sealant

Dairy cows are vital for milk production, cheese, cream, and so much more. Healthy udders and teats are necessary to keep production levels at their highest and to keep the number of cows being culled to the lowest levels. Inflammation of the mammary gland is called mastitis, which is typically caused by bacteria that invade the teat canal. This disease is most often transmitted by contact with...

A Bayesian elicitation of veterinary beliefs regarding systemic dry cow therapy: Variation and importance for clinical trial design

The two key aims of this research were: (i) to conduct a probabilistic elicitation to quantify the variation in veterinarians' beliefs regarding the efficacy of systemic antibiotics when used as an adjunct to intra-mammary dry cow therapy and (ii) to investigate (in a Bayesian statistical framework) the strength of future research evidence required (in theory) to change the beliefs of practisin...