Biotechnology in Animal Husbandry 2013 Volume 29, Issue 2, Pages: 269-275
https://doi.org/10.2298/BAH1302269B
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Mastitis therapy: Direct and indirect costs
Boboš S. (Faculty of Agriculture, Novi Sad)
Radinović M. (Faculty of Agriculture, Novi Sad)
Vidić B. (Scientific Veterinary Institute “Novi Sad”, Novi Sad)
Pajić M. (Faculty of Agriculture, Novi Sad)
Vidić V. (Scientific Veterinary Institute “Novi Sad”, Novi Sad)
Galfi A. (Faculty of Agriculture, Novi Sad)
One of the most important problems in milk production, causing great economic
loses is certainly mastitis. In order to minimize economic losses from
mastitis dairy farms introduce different mastitis management programs. These
programs include mastitis therapy and prevention. In mastitis control
prevention is most important and when mastitis occurs cost of therapy and
milk discharge is very important. In our study we examined cost of mastitis
treatment and milk loss in different mastitis management programs. We
concluded that most costly are mastitis caused by specific pathogens. Cost of
milk loss is 2.4 times bigger than cost of drug consumption. Applying of
tit-dipping has great importance in reduction of mastitis caused by specific
pathogens and less importance for conditional saprophytes. In total, cost of
mastitis treatment on whole farm was almost the same for all mastitis
management programs, while the effect of the program on farm C was the most
expensive in the cows with the finding of specific pathogens.
Keywords: mastitis, therapy cost, pathogens, saprophytes
Projekat
Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. TR31084 i br. III 43007