DHI: Somatic Cell Counts - AgroMedia

SOMATICCELL COUNTS2 Objectives of the Somatic Cell count option to evaluate the udder health of all individual cows in the herd to determine the level of mastitis in the herd to aid in the detection and control of subclinical mastitis to evaluate the effectiveness of the mastitis control program to predict the milk loss associated with mastitis, for each cow andfor the herd to summarize current and historical individual cow Somatic cellcount information to provide an analysis of Somatic cell count (SCC) data in terms oftrends in herd average SCCs, the effect of age on SCCs, and theeffect of stage of lactation on Cow Report objectives to provide current individual cow udder health information andtrends, in terms of SCC and linear score results for the last 6 testdates to provide the current contributions made by individual cows tothe herd average SCC to provide historical information on the udder health of indivi

6 LINEAR SCORE (LS) is calculated from the somatic cell count. The relationship between LS and SCC is shown in table 1. Somatic cell counts increase with the severity of udder infection.

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