Economic losses resulting from mastitis. A review
Mastitis reduces the milk yield, changes milk composition, shortens the productive life of affected cows, and is very costly to the dairy farmer. Losses in total milk production range from 5.0 to 25.0 percent, with one extreme of 83.9 percent. Decreases in the composition of milk have been recorded for fat, 0.1 to 0.45 percent; solids-not-fat, 0.1 to 0.57 percent; lactose, 0.1 to 0.77 percent, and total solids, 1.07 percent. Total annual economic losses to dairymen in the United States attributable to mastitis have been estimated at 400 to 500 million, or 23 per cow. Control of this costly disease must be based on a continuing program of prevention and elimination of infection. Instituting and maintaining such a program can reduce losses from mastitis by 50 percent or more
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| Format: | biblioteca |
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1970
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| Subjects: | GANADO DE LECHE, SALUD ANIMAL, MASTITIS, ASPECTOS ECONOMICOS, PERDIDAS, |
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| Summary: | Mastitis reduces the milk yield, changes milk composition, shortens the productive life of affected cows, and is very costly to the dairy farmer. Losses in total milk production range from 5.0 to 25.0 percent, with one extreme of 83.9 percent. Decreases in the composition of milk have been recorded for fat, 0.1 to 0.45 percent; solids-not-fat, 0.1 to 0.57 percent; lactose, 0.1 to 0.77 percent, and total solids, 1.07 percent. Total annual economic losses to dairymen in the United States attributable to mastitis have been estimated at 400 to 500 million, or 23 per cow. Control of this costly disease must be based on a continuing program of prevention and elimination of infection. Instituting and maintaining such a program can reduce losses from mastitis by 50 percent or more |
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