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- Title
Udder health in relation to udder and teat morphometry in Holstein Friesian × Sahiwal crossbred dairy cows.
- Authors
Singh, Raj; Bansal, Baljinder; Gupta, Dhiraj
- Abstract
The present investigation involved 261 Holstein Friesian (HF) × Sahiwal cows to study the udder health as well as the udder and teat morphometry. The udder health was defined on the basis of bacteriology and California mastitis test of quarter foremilk. The morphometry parameters included udder fore depth (UFD, distance from the point where the fore udder merges within the abdomen to a point in front of the fore teats at the level of the udder base), udder rear depth (URD, distance from the bottom of the vulva to the base of the rear udder), udder depth (UD, level of the udder base with respect to hock joint), height of the udder from the floor, teat length, teat diameter (at mid of the teat barrel), teat-tip to floor distance and distance between the teats. The URD, UD and height of udder from the floor showed a significant ( P < 0.05) relation to the udder health with mastitic cows having larger URD, smaller udder distance from the floor and the udder base placed below the hock joint. The cows with teat length larger than 4.5 cm and teat diameter 3.0 cm or larger had significantly more quarters affected with mastitis. Further, cows with teats placed nearer to the floor were more susceptible to mastitis ( P < 0.01). No significant differences were found between healthy and mastitic udders with respect to UFD and distance between teats. It can be concluded that selection for optimum udder and teat morphometry in breeding programmes may help to reduce susceptibility to intramammary infections in HF × Sahiwal cows.
- Subjects
COWS; BOVINE mastitis; CATTLE disease prevention; DIAGNOSIS; CATTLE vaccination; MASTITIS; INFECTIOUS disease transmission; ANIMAL health; CATTLE diseases
- Publication
Tropical Animal Health & Production, 2014, Vol 46, Issue 1, p93
- ISSN
0049-4747
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11250-013-0454-8