Modeling the Impact of Mastitis on Milk Production by Dairy Cows
Open Access
- 1 August 1994
- journal article
- Published by American Dairy Science Association in Journal of Dairy Science
- Vol. 77 (8), 2289-2301
- https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.s0022-0302(94)77172-1
Abstract
Individual milk production curves of 542 cows with 722 cases of mastitis were compared with control curves drawn from healthy lactating cows. First, differences were classified into patterns of milk loss, and their distribution was analyzed among the patterns with regard to breed, season, lactation number, stage of lactation, and milk production. Then, individual milk losses were estimated and analyzed according to the same factors. In early lactation, almost 7% of mastitis cases necessitated culling or drying off. For 36% of the cases of mastitis occurring in early lactation, milk production was affected for an extended period, and the milk loss induced was 911 kg on average over the entire lactation. Fifty-two percent of the mastitis cases occurring after lactation peak was not accompanied by marked modifications of the lactation curves. For 38% of cases of mastitis occurring from mid to late lactation, milk production was affected for an extended period. When milk production was the most affected (26% of total cases), the average loss was 850 kg over the entire lactation. For cases in early or mid to late lactation, the production at mastitis onset was a determining factor of the amount and pattern of milk production loss induced. Results were applied in a simulation over two simulated groups of cows.Keywords
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