Mastitis
Below we detail the best remedies to help with mastitis and high somatic cell count.
If you have a high cell count, then start with MB Nosode in the water trough for the whole herd. Do this once daily for 3-6 days. Then move to PSSC, this can be used at the whole herd level for 4 days, or to treat any particular cows that are showing signs of mastitis. If you have had your cows tested and found a pacticular bacteria, we can mix up the nosode to help with this. But our MB Nosode has the 5 most common bacteria - Strep uberus, Strep aga, Strep dys, Strep aur and E coli.
PSSC is a blend of 4 homeopathic remedies that work well for mastitis. Good for treating mastitis in an individual in the cow shed, can also be given at herd level into the water trough. A very effective mastitis remedy.
MB Nosode is a nosode made out of the most common bacteria that causes mastitis. Great to assist as a prophylaxsis / preventative for mastitis, also been found to help reduce high SCC. Good to treat at herd level, give to any cow with a cell count over 150k.
Bryonia is for the animal that has a hard quarter and little to no milk coming out. Very painful and irritable. Should notice a difference with 24 hours. Then use PSSC.
Below is blog Paulette wrote a few years ago when she was running a 100 cow shed on OAD milking.
Hope you all had a wonderful Xmas and are enjoying the new-year. I had some time off over the Xmas break, at the small farm I had 6 days off. Upon returning there was mastitis in the herd, the filter sock was a mess and the SCC had climbed up. So all up I found 3 mastitis cows, I started treating all of them with PSSC a homeopathic blend of remedies designed to assist cows with mastitis and also put them in the bucket to bring the SCC down.
The PSSC remedy has been very successful, I do my usual 3 sprays a milking, one when they come into the shed, one when I put the cups on and one when I take the cups off. One of the cows was bucketed and treated for 2 days, cleared and put back in the vat. Another was treated and bucketed for 4 days then went back in the vat. The third is still being treated but is clearing up nicely.
This is a great result, as if I was to treat with antibiotics it would be 3 days treatment and a withholding period of 96 hours for a twice a day herd, since we are once a day, we have to double that from 4 days to 8 days, so all up the cows would have been out of the vat for 11 days.
Below is a comparison on how long these cows were kept out of the vat on homeopathy and how long they would have to be withheld if treated with antibiotics.
|
Homeopathic Treatment |
Antibiotic treatment |
Cow 1 |
2 days in bucket |
11 days in bucket |
Cow 2 |
4 days in bucket |
11 days in bucket |
Cow 3 |
5 days still in bucket but clearing |
11 days in bucket |
As you can see quite a cost saving for the owner as homeopathy is cheaper than antibiotics and also they get the milk back into the vat sooner and therefore into their wallets.
Posted: Mon 19 Jan 2015