This study was carried out to investigate the principal management factors that influenced the bulk milk somatic cell count (BMSCC) and total bacterial count (TBC) of smallholder dairy farms in the 10th Region of Chile. A total of 150 smallholder milk producers were randomly selected from 42 milk...

Lameness is one of the greatest infringements of welfare in dairy cows. The objective of this study was to investigate associations between milk yield and foot lesions causing lameness in Chilean dairy cattle with the hypothesis that if we can demonstrate that lameness reduces yield, and so income, ...

We investigated the principal management factors that influenced bulk milk somatic cell count (BMSCC) and total bacterial count (TBC) of smallholder dairy farms in the 10th region of Chile. One hundred and fifty smallholder milk producers were selected randomly from 42 milk collection centres...

This paper describes an ELISA test using blood serum samples to detect dairy cattle persistently infected with BVDV in 9 dairy farms in the 10th region of Chile. It was shown that 0.3% of the serum samples were positive to the ELISA test and 33.3% of the dairy herds had persistently infected...

Bovine viral diarrhoea/Mucosal disease (BVD/MD) is a worldwide viral disease with a great impact in bovine reproduction and production. In Chile, the disease has been reported with over 60% prevalence and it demands adequate diagnostic methods. Currently the official serological diagnostic test in...