The burning problems of udder health /subclinical mastitis (SCM) in dairy cattle is considered as a worldwide silent threat which major reasons for low yield and poor quality milk causes substantial economic loss. present work was conducted at ICAR-NDRI, ERS, Kalyani (WB) through project (2017-2020). article’s aim to review important advances maintenance ameliorate SCM higher quantity productio...

Mastitis is an important infection that affects herd health, udder health and milk yield of individual animals. Somatic cells (SCs) naturally present in are used as indicator subclinical mastitis, but also to assess quality safety. cell count the main monitoring variable safety assessment. This review especially focuses on effect SCs food their dairy technology. The most significant SCC technol...

The aim of this study was to investigate if there is a relationship between the latency to the first suckling and udder and teat morphology and to assess the extent to which piglet and sow characteristics influence teat pair position preference. Udder morphology trait measurements, piglet suckling behavior, and sow productive and behavioral traits were recorded from a population of 74 Large Whi...

to describe proportion and pattern of culling in commercial dairy herds of khorasan razavi province, this survey was carried out from 21st march 2008 to 20th march 2009 in 15 industrialized dairy herds. for each culled cow data related to parity at culling, last calving to culling interval and primary reason for culling were recorded. annual herd exit rate was 20.9%. out of a total of 652 culle...