Relationship among Milk Conductivity, Production Traits, and Somatic Cell Score in the Italian Mediterranean Buffalo

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Mastitis can be considered one of the costliest diseases of the dairy Mediterranean Buffalo. Early detection of the disease is thus of great importance to farmers, to reduce or prevent production losses. The measurement of electrical conductivity (EC) of milk is a relatively simple and inexpensive technique, and it has been studied as a routine method for the diagnosis of mastitis in dairy farm. Limited information is currently available on the relationships among EC, production traits and somatic cells count in Italian Mediterranean Buffalo. Hence, the aim of this study was to investigate those correlations using data collected at a commercial Italian buffalo farm. We can conclude that in buffalo, as in other species, there is a strong relationship between EC and s

SUBMITTER: Matera R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9455038 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature