Dry Cow Therapy Flashcards
What are the aims of dry cow therapy?
Treat existing infections - S.aureus, Strep.uberis
Prevent environmental infections - E.coli, Klebsiella
What dry cow therapy should you give a cow with a low SCC (<200,000) and no cases of mastitis in this lactation?
Teat sealant only
What should you give a cow with a high SCC at drying off?
Intra-mammary antibiotic + teat sealant
What should you give a cow that you suspect has a chronic mastitis infection at dry off?
Systemic macrolide (Tylosin) + intra-mammary antibiotic + teat sealant
What dry cow therapy should you give a cow that has had one case of clinical mastitis shortly after calving, but has had low SCCs since?
Teat sealant only
What dry cow therapy should you give a cow that has had a couple of episodes of a high SCC during late lactation?
Intra-mammary antibiotic + teat sealant
What dry cow therapy should you give to a young cow that has had 1 clinical case of mastitis and a persistently high SCC?
Systemic Ab + intra-mammary ab + teat sealant
What dry cow therapy should you give an old cow with a persistently high SCC, multiple cases of mastitis and palpable lumps in udder?
None - cull
What dry cow tubes are available?
Orbeseal - teat sealant - Barium sulphate paste
Orbenin extra - cloxacillin (good for resistant staphs)
Bovaclox extra - cloxacillin + ampicillin
Ubro red - penethamate (good for resistant streps) + penicillin
+ aminoglycoside - framycetin (E.coli)
What dry cow therapy do they use at Woodpark?
No cases / single case - Ubro Red
High cell count / chronic - cloxacillin and tylan
What antibiotics are bad at penetrating the udder in mastitis?
Aminoglycosides - streptomycin & framycetin
