Vol. 11, Special Issue 7 (2022)

Author(s):
Ajay Kumar Rai, Anju Nayak, Joycee Jogi, Vandana Gupta, RV Singh, KK Jadav, Poonam Shakya and BMS Dhakar

Abstract:
Mastitis is a global problem denoting an inflammatory condition of the udder. It is estimated that higher percentage of dairy animals are suffering from clinical and subclinical mastitis and causing huge economic losses to the dairy industry. The present study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of clinical and subclinical mastitis in dairy cattle and buffaloes of different dairy farms of Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh. A total of 430 bovines including 102 dairy cattle and 328 buffaloes were screened for clinical and subclinical mastitis by California mastitis test. The prevalence of clinical and subclinical mastitis in cow was detected 17.64% and 36.27% respectively while in buffaloes the prevalence was recorded 5.18% and 14.63% respectively. In this study cow revealed a higher prevalence of clinical mastitis and subclinical mastitis than the buffaloes. Moreover, subclinical form of mastitis was higher than clinical mastitis.