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Management And Technology Solutions For Improving Milk Quality, Amanda E. Sterrett
Management And Technology Solutions For Improving Milk Quality, Amanda E. Sterrett
Theses and Dissertations--Animal and Food Sciences
Mastitis is one of the most common and expensive dairy cattle diseases. Mastitis prevention and management are key factors in herd health and improved milk quality. One objective of this research was to evaluate management solutions to maintain a low somatic cell count, based on survey responses from Kentucky dairy producers. Because hyperkeratosis may increase mastitis incidence, another objective of this research was to examine changes in teat end hyperkeratosis in a herd transitioning from a standard pulsation milking system to an individual quarter pulsation milking system. The last objective of this research was to evaluate technologies that monitored rumination …