Prevalencia de mastitis entre dos tipos de manejo de ordeño en una hacienda en Santo Domingo y en Manabí, durante los meses de octubre a diciembre de 2023.

Abstract

The importance of regularly performing the California Mastitis Test (CMT) on herds is the help it provides in detecting the disease and providing a rapid response to follow appropriate therapy. The present study had a quantitative, non-experimental and observational design sampling, the statistics were carried out using Excel tables, 100 cows were sampled, divided into two farms: 50 cows from a farm in Santo Domingo (H1) and 50 cows from a farm in Manabí (H2), with two types of milking: mechanical and manual, the duration of the experimental part was from October 3 to December 3, 2023. This investigative work aimed to detect the prevalence of subclinical mastitis depending of the type of milking management, it was established that the prevalence of mastitis in H1 was 13.91% while H2 had a prevalence of 38%. No relationship was found between sanitary management and the presence of mastitis (p= 0.9), however, in H2 milking was manual, and it is where the highest percentage of mastitis prevalence occurs, inferring that poor cleaning management increases the presentation of this pathology. The most affected quarter was the right anterior (AD) in H1, while in H2 the most affected quarters were the left anterior (AI) and right posterior (PD).