Preliminary study on the effect of post milking teat dipping on incidence of mastitis in high yielding dary cows at Kundhar village, Pokhara
2001
Joshi, B.R. | Joshi, H.D.(Agriculture Research Station, Lumle, Pokhara (Nepal))
Mastitis is an economically important production disease of lactating animals and is even more important high yielding dairy animals. In Nepal, the clinical form of mastitis is being treated with antibiotics but not always with success, however, there has not been any approach for the control of the equally important sub-clinical form of the disease. The present paper reports the findings on teat dipping approach for the control of mastitis in dairy cows. The programme was implemented for nine months on farmer's animals at Kundhar village of Kaski district, Nepal. The results of the study show that regular teat in dipping Povidone lodine reduced the incidence of sub-clinical mastitis by 70 percent from the initial infection rate. Similarly, there was a significant reduction on the incidence of clinical mastitis recorded during the teat dipping year as compared to the previous year. These findings suggest the useful role of teat dips in controlling mastitis of dairy animals. The present findings need to be verified further with larger sample size so that the technology could be further evaluated and disseminated for field use.
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