Health Management and disease control

Dairy farming started many years ago. Mastitis, a nightmare for many farmers, also dates many years back. This has been a pain for almost every farmer. Treatment for mastitis has never been easy. It’s costly and may result in huge losses. Sometimes it will cost you a number of animals. The good news is that mastitis can be treated with antibiotics and without antibiotics. Most dairy farmers are used to getting the easy way out especially when it comes to cow’s treatment. Their target is getting back to the profit-making streak as soon as possible. This makes them disregard their …

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Cow comfort is very essential in rearing healthy and happy animals. The animal’s well-being is very important socially and economically. Research has shown that comfortable animals produce more milk and have few health complications. Its thus paramount that every farmer implements the best ways to boost cow comfort. One of the sure ways is investing in the best cow mattresses. Cow mattresses go a long way in boosting cow comfort. They have numerous benefits thus improve how the cow sleeps, lies down and gets up after sleep. These are the three crucial factors that veterinaries have identified to be high …

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The treatment of mastitis in dairy cattle can take different dimensions. Treatment varies from the use of antibiotics to the treatment without antibiotics. The former is the commonly practiced curative method but a good number of farmers also use the latter. The Use Of Antibiotics To date, antibiotics remain to be the basis of numerous treatment regimes. They can be used in different ways to ensure that the farmer doesn’t incur losses. The applications include; Intramammary Antibiotics This is the first line treatment for cows with in-complicated mastitis in a single quarter. Intramammary delivery of an antibiotic into the mammary gland, …

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