Getting too low of SCC in the tank is only a look at the entire herd, in response to the item “Can SCCs go too low?”
Of great importance is driving down the new mastitis infection rate per month. This is a first line barometer of your cow care and milking process. Maybe a look at the average of SCC for those cows under 200,000 somatic cells per milliliter would be a good statistic to know if in fact we need enough cells present in an individual cow to mount an attack against an infection.
Greg Booher, Wisconsin
(c) Hoard's Dairyman Intel 2017
August 21, 2017
