Udder infections in the ‘dry period’. I

In a herd averaging forty-five to fifty cows in milk, large numbers of infections occurred during the dry period and over half of these developed during the first 3 weeks after the final milking-out of the udder. About 50% of the infections persisted and a like percentage of these produced clinical symptoms within the first 2 weeks of calving, half of them caused by staphylococci.