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Further short-term studies of the influence of the milking machine on the rate of new mastitis infections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2009

Carol L. Cousins ,
C. C. Thiel ,
D. R. Westgarth  and
T. M. Higgs
Carol L. Cousins
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, Reading RG2 9AT
C. C. Thiel
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, Reading RG2 9AT
D. R. Westgarth
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, Reading RG2 9AT
T. M. Higgs
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, Reading RG2 9AT
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Summary

From a series of short-term experiments under accentuated milking machine conditions predisposing to new mastitis infections, it appears that the cow is at increased risk near the end of a milking. The observations recorded are consistent with the view that bacteria implanted in the teat during milking as a result of the action of the machine are the less likely to be washed out the nearer implantation occurs to the end of milk flow.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Dairy Research , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , June 1973 , pp. 289 - 292
Copyright
Copyright © Proprietors of Journal of Dairy Research 1973

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