Guide to the choice of Selective or Blanket Dry Cow Treatment

Use the information here and consult with us for further advice.

If you have less than three Individual Cow Cell Counts (ICCCs) for each cow, use Blanket DCT.

If you have three or more ICCCs for each cow, and wish to consider selective treatment, proceed down this chart.

If using Blanket Dry Cow Treatment, treat all quarters of all cows.

If using Selective Dry Cow Treatment, treat all quarters of cows with any ICCC above 250,000 cells/mL during the lactation, and cows which have had a clinical case during the lactation.

 

If answers to all questions are 'No', then use Selective DCT.
If the answer to any question is 'Yes', then use Blanket DCT.

Is your herd average BMCC for the last 6 months above 250,000 cells/mL?

 

Yes
Blanket Dry Cow Treatment
No

Do more than 30% of your cows have peak ICCCs above 250,000?

 

Yes
Blanket Dry Cow Treatment
No

Did you have more than five clinical cases per 100 cows in the first month of lactation?

 

Yes
Blanket Dry Cow Treatment
No

Did you have more than an average of two clinical cases per 100 cows per month after the first month of lactation?

 

Yes
Blanket Dry Cow Treatment
No

Did you have more than two clinical cases per 100 cows per month in either of the last two months of lactation?

 

Yes
Blanket Dry Cow Treatment
No

Do your milk cultures indicate the presence of Strep agalactiae or significant numbers of Strep uberis?

 

Yes
Blanket Dry Cow Treatment
No

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