High-quality milk can be obtained only from healthy cows. Diseases of cows such as mastitis remain a serious problem in dairy farming. Cows can get mastitis in different periods of lactation, during drying and also during drying. First of all, the most productive cows get sick with mastitis, since the increased exploitation of the mammary glands makes it very sensitive to negative factors.
The causative agents of mastitis are facultative-pathogenic bacteria, different types of fungi that can enter the mammary glands both endogenously and exogenously, implant in the tissues and cause an inflammatory process. Since the causative agents of mastitis live everywhere, the fight against the disease is of great importance.
The disease is characterized by the deterioration of the general conditions of the animal, increase in temperature, discharge, reddening of the skin of the mammary glands, deterioration of the nutritional value of milk. Subclinical (hidden) mastitis is more common, which goes on without external clinical signs for some time, which in many cases leads to cessation of milk secretion and atrophy of the udder quarters.
One of the main reasons for the spread of mastitis is the unsatisfactory veterinary-sanitary conditions of keeping fodder. In addition, the source of infection is a violation of milking technology (milking machine, milker's hands, contaminated cloth/handkerchief). In the case of incorrect milking, mechanical damage to the udder may occur, which appears to be a contributing factor to the development of mastitis.
The damage caused by mastitis is determined by the decrease in milk productivity. Fat content, acidity, amount of casein, dry matter, milk sugar, calcium are reduced in the milk of sick cows. The damage caused by subclinical mastitis is also increased by the fact that the milk and milk of the slaughtered cows are unsuitable for feeding newborn calves, for processing dairy products, and are a danger to human health, as they contain pathogenic microbes and their toxins.
There are many means for the treatment and prevention of mastitis, mainly various antibiotics, which do not always provide a high therapeutic effect. Therefore, the development of mastitis treatment and prevention products, which have a wide spectrum of antimicrobial action and cause an increase in the natural and specific resistance of the body, is of great practical importance.
In recent years, some success has been achieved in the fight against mastitis in furs, and effective means against the disease have been proposed. The "Inveti" company offers highly effective anti-mastitis vaccine "STARTVAC" for the immunization of foals and orphans, produced in Spain by the "HIPRA" company, which is successfully used by large dairy farms operating in Georgia. Startvac's total immunization schedule produces immunity.
A startup in nursing products cures mastitis. It is used to eliminate incidents of subclinical mastitis, as well as to treat signs of clinical mastitis caused by staphylococcus, coliform and coagulase-negative.
Startvak should be injected 1 dose (2 ml) deep under the muscle according to the following scheme: first injection - 45 days before delivery; second injection - after 35 days, i.e. 10 days before childbirth; The third injection - 62 days after the second injection. The full immunization program should be repeated with each subsequent pregnancy.