Cattle Teats’ Milk Quality and Prevalence of Mastitis by Electronic Mastitis Detector in Burkina Faso

Mastitis is a dairy farm disease which causes important loss for dairy industry. Mastitis control is permanent challenge for dairy farm [1]. Milk loss link to mastitis was assessed to reach 17% of world milk production [1]. In Burkina Faso, this loss is not assessed and remains unknown area. It is well known that the most spread mastitis is subclinical which has considerable impact on farm and decrease milk yield and quality [2,3]. It is therefore urgent to assess mastitis on dairy farm related to milking in Burkina Faso because the presence of mastitis is linked directly to presence of bacteria. Clinical mastitis could be detected and treated by farmers. However, subclinical mastitis is silent and affects milk production without any suspicion from farmers. Today, several tests could be used to reveal presence of mastitis but there are not all affordable to farmers. The well-known method is California mastitis test (CMT) which could be used by farmers to discard mastitis cows before milking. The advanced method like somatic cells counter is used to count number of somatic cells in saleable milk [4]. It is also possible to check efficiency of milking by run fat content of strip milk. The strip milk shows how farmer supposes to end up the milking process.