Udder Health Systems has been providing microbiological services to the dairy industry since 1978. It is our goal to provide a comprehensive, state of the art, milk quality laboratory and consulting service to help veterinarians and dairymen better manage bovine mastitis. The purpose of sending a milk culture into the laboratory is to make a diagnosis. Getting the name of the organism causing the mastitis problem allows us to offer a much more focused consultation. Different mastitis causing organisms require different methods of prevention and control. Culture comes before consultation. With these two things together we can offer you a powerful milk quality and mastitis prevention service. Now there is a completely new way that you can benefit from culture technology. It is a benefit that can best be implemented right on your own dairy.

The TNT test is a specially designed on-farm culture test that helps the herdsman make the critical intramammary treatment decision. On many dairies, thousands of dollars are spent each year on the treatment of mastitis. This is done because many gram-positive mastitis organisms will cause significant damage to cows if they go untreated. Treatment will help reduce somatic cell counts, bacteria counts and the spread of these organisms. However we know that gram-negative mastitis infected cows do not benefit from most intramammary treatment efforts. Treating a cow for mastitis can include the cost of the intramammary tube, which could range from $6 to $12, as well as the cost of discarded milk, which can be anywhere from $25 to $40. The TNT test, which sells for $2.45 per test plate, allows you to distinguish between gram-positive and gram-negative infections and therefore identify which cows will benefit from intramammary therapy. This way you can direct your treatment efforts to the cows that will benefit the most. Experience has shown that TNT testing can allow you to dramatically reduce antibiotic costs, antibiotic risk and dumped milk, perhaps by 50% or more.

At Udder Health Systems we consult with hundreds of dairies each year regarding mastitis treatment. However, we cannot be in the hospital barn every day to help the herdsman make the decision on each clinical mastitis case. The TNT test is a powerful tool that should be used in the on-farm dairy laboratory so this critical cost saving treatment decision can conveniently be made whenever necessary. We can ship a new culture incubator to your dairy for about $450 and a “TNT start up package” for $75 which will contain enough supplies to perform the TNT test on the next twenty cases of clinical mastitis. You could realize treatment cost savings big enough to cover well over half the cost of this initial investment.

Udder Health Systems, Inc. is available to give complete technical support on all our products and services. Start exploring the power of this new on-farm test system today. Please contact us on our toll free line 877-398-1360.

Intramammary Treatment Decision

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