Department of Animal Science, B. A. College of Agriculture, AAU, Anand-388 110 (Gujarat)
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Online published on 16 February, 2017.
The present study was designed to determine the quarter-wise prevalence of mastitis in crossbred cows. Milk samples collected from 200 crossbred cows were tested for subclinical mastitis by California mastitis test (CMT). The overall prevalence of subclinical mastitis was 49%. Total 184 (23%) quarters found positive for subclinical mastitis. Prevalence was higher in fore quarters (25.25%) than hind quarters (20.75%) and right quarters (24.5%) than left quarters (21.5%). Maximum number of SCM cows had only single quarter infection (51.02%) followed by two quarters (21.43%), three quarters (16.33%) and all four quarters (11.22%).
Crossbred cows, subclinical mastitis, fore quarters, hind quarters, left quarters, right quarters
