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PREVALENCE OF SUBCLINICAL MASTITIS AND PREVENTIVE MEASURES

Primkul Ibragimov 1 , Mereke Tokayeva 1 , Gulmyra Alpysbayeva 1 , Bakhyt Barakhov 1 , Shamdarya Abu 1 , Manas Turabekov 1

1 NJSC "Kazakh National Agrarian Research University"

doi.org/10.37884/4-2025/02 pp. 12-20 Admitted 05.08.2025 Published 30.12.2025

Abstract

Subclinical mastitis is widespread in developed countries engaged in dairy farming, especially in areas with a high level of mechanization and automation of production and more intensive use of animals. Mastitis control measures are an urgent task for dairy farms to obtain safe and high-quality raw milk from dairy cows. Mastitis remains an unsolved problem in dairy farming, since it causes significant damage to farms due to deterioration in the quality of milk produced, decreased productivity of cows, increased treatment costs and premature death of animals.

As a result of production studies aimed at finding a solution to the mastitis problem, monthly examinations of all dairy cows in the herd were carried out to determine the degree and frequency of damage to the four lobes of the udder in various forms of mastitis using diagnostic tests.  As a result, 22.6% of dairy cows suffered from mastitis, including 20.3% with subclinical mastitis and 2.3% with clinical mastitis. The prevalence of the pathological process with damage to one quarter of the udder was recorded in 45.8% of the total number of sick cows in the herd, with damage to two quarters - in 29.2%, with damage to three quarters - in 20.8%, with damage to all four lobes - in 4.2%.  During the bacteriological examination of milk samples taken from dairy cows with mastitis on the farm, the following types of microorganisms were found: Streptococcus agalaetiae, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus hominis, Streptococcus dysgalaetiae, Staphylococcus haemolyticus, Staphylococcus saprophyticus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Escherichia coli, Clostridium perfringens, and Candida fungi.

 

subclinical mastitis dairy farming mammary gland inflammation diagnostics somatic cells milk quality therapeutic effect

01 Introduction

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