Mastitis Prevention and Control : Expense, Milk Quality and Incidence of Mastitis

Abstract

The result of Mastitis prevention and control of a dairy farm with average 17.5 milking cows per month found that, expenses on prevention and control were 40.45 Baht per milking cow per month. Milk quality was good (grade 1, 83.02% and grade 2, 16.98%) with standard composition (total solid 12.72±0.69%, fat 4.08 ± 0.54% and specific gravity 1.030±0.001). The incidence of Subclinical and Clinical Mastitis were very low (3.44% and 1.07% respetively). Very low expenditure (9.09 Baht per milk cow per month) were paid for Clinical Mastitis treatment.