Diagnosis of clinical or subclinical mastitis in ewes

Fragkou, I.A.; Boscos, C.; Fthenakis, George C.

doi:10.1016/j.smallrumres.2013.12.015

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“…Predominance of CNS among the microorganisms isolated in the cases of subclinical mastitis (Table 2) is in agreement with that reported by other authors (SPANU et al, 2011;FRAGKOU et al, 2014;PEREIRA et al, 2014). In table 3, the mean values for the milk characteristics of interest are shown according to the sheep breeds and the dry and rainy periods, in the weaning and postpartum stages of the consecutive lactation.…”

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Influence of lactation stages and rain periods on subclinical mastitis in meat producing ewes

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Influence of lactation stages and rain periods on subclinical mastitis in meat producing ewes

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“…Only in few farms, post-dipping (in 1 extensive and 2 semi-intensive farms) and vaccination against mastitis (in 3 semi-intensive farms) were applied. "Blind" mastitis treatments, the non-usage of dry-period antibiotics and non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs, as well as the absence of an integrated management for subclinical mastitis were the case in most farms, against the already established guidelines for udder health management (Fthenakis et al, 2012;Fragkou et al, 2014). Although good milking practice was not always the case, the frequency of clinical mastitis cases cy (Rhind et al, 1980;Viñoles et al, 2009;Gootwine, 2011;Fthenakis et al, 2012).…”

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Effect of management factors on reproductive and milk production performance of a dairy sheep breed adapted to low-input management systems

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Voutzourakis

Stefanakis

et al. 2018

J Hellenic Vet Med Soc

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Interest on the implementation and improvisation of low-input dairy sheep farming is rising. Our study aimed to describe a) the milk productivity of the Sfakia sheep, a Mediterranean well-adapted to low-input management schemes breed (“low-input breed”), and b) the effect of management (MS) and milking system (MLS) on milk yield and quality. Monthly bulk milk samples (n=307) and reproductive data were collected from 10 extensive and 10 semi-intensive Sfakia sheep flocks in Crete Greece, over two consecutive lactations. All semi-intensive and four extensive farms were equipped with a milking parlour machine (MPM). A portable machine (PM) was used in three extensive farms; hand-milking (HM) was applied in the rest extensive farms. The effect of MS and MLS on daily milk yield/ewe (DMY), somatic cell count (SCC), total bacterial count (TBC), pH and % lactose content (LACT) of milk was explored with linear mixed-effects models. Mean DMY (p<0.001) as well as the seasonal variation pattern of SCC (p=0.020) and LACT (p=0.018) differed between MS. TBC was higher in extensive farms using MPM than HM (p=0.002); PM was related to lower SCC, compared to MPM (p=0.044) and HM (p=0.012). Concluding, mild interventions in management and milking practices could improve the productivity of “low-input” dairy sheep breeds.

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“…Albumin and casein are not present in the blood and therefore must be synthesized from blood precursors; proteins are subdivided into casein, which represent 80% of the total protein and serum protein represented by albumin, α-lactalbumin, β-lactoglobulin, immunoglobulins and protease-peptone, totaling the remaining 20% (Tronco, 2013). The somatic cell count in the milk (172.48 × 10 3 ) showed that the ewes' mammary glands were healthy during lactation, ensuring the sanitary quality of the milk, as this value was lower than 0.5 × 10 6 , which indicates absence of mastitis in sheep, according Fragkou et al (2014).…”

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