Management practices related to the incidence of sub clinical mastitis (SCM) in lactating dairy cow in Banyuwangi, Indonesia

Abstract

Mastitis is one of the overwhelming diseases in the dairy cow industry and it has reduced milk yield, quality and increased cow’s culling rate. This study was carried out to establish the prevalence of subclinical mastitis in the lactating dairy cow in Banyuwangi regency, East Java, Indonesia. Forty-nine milk samples from 13 head dairy cows were tested for subclinical mastitis using the California Mastitis Test (CMT). The descriptive statistics were performed, and the association between the management practice and incidence of subclinical mastitis was also analyzed using GLM. The result shows that subclinical mastitis was associated with milking type, washing before milking, pre-dipping with warm water and post dipping with iodine. Based on this result, we conclude that mastitis in Banyuwangi is relatively high and need more corcern related to management practice to prevent and reduce SCM incident in lactating dairy cow.