Milking Mastitis Management - Fundamentals - Leitchville
Thursday, 27th February 2025
Friday, 28th February 2025
11-15 King George Street
Leitchville
VIC
3567
Australia See map
Mastitis and milk quality affect the bottom line of all dairy farms. Dairy Australia estimates that every case of clinical mastitis costs around $450 in treatment costs and lost milk.
Milking Mastitis Management Fundamentals is a two-day training course designed by Dairy Australia and delivered by a Countdown trained experts in mastitis and milk quality. (Replacing Cups On Cups Off)
Day 1is classroom based, covering best practice in milk harvesting, with the emphasis on the detection, treatment and prevention of clinical mastitis along with the importance of good stockmanship.
Day 2covers the whole of the milking process including teat hygiene and disinfection, plant maintenance along with dairy hygiene and plant washing. The course is suitable for anyone on a dairy farm who milks cows - from farm owners, managers and sharefarmers - to family members and farm employees.
Learn about:
how and why mastitis infections occur
practical methods to detect and deal with mastitis
adapting your milking process to reduce the
risk of infections
dairy hygiene and plan washing procedures
herd stockmanship
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