Contents tagged with milking

3 June 2021

Milking machinery and routines have a major impact on the spread of mastitis on your farm. Read our best practice guides to keeping milking equipment and processes safe and hygienic.

18 February 2021

Environmental mastitis is usually the result of infections picked up outside the milking parlour, but infections can be spread during milking.

18 February 2021

Good stockmanship to move cows around the farm as well as cow handling in the parlour are essential to ensure environmental bacteria do not enter the udder via the teat canal.

21 May 2020

The options to consider when changing milking frequency to lower production

16 October 2020

How incidences of mastitis have been reduced at Hillhead of Covington

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