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MAY  2007  7th  SEMESTER   HOMEWORK 6

1.     What is the estimated number of sub-clinical cases of mastitis in a herd for every               detected clinical case? 

2.     This website gives an overview of the basics of milking machine function.   

3.     Questions about mastitis vaccination can be answered here.

4.     What is the purported advantage of robotic milking systems? 

5.Here is a link to a short video about milking with the robotic machine.

6.     For lots of information about mastitis you can check these links.  Which pathogen is         linked to udder suicide?  Check this link and go to page 5 for the answer. 

7.Here is some information about stray voltage.  What is stray voltage with respect to          mastitis and milk quality?

8.     Under udder health products, check out Labo Solidago.  This is homeopathy.

9.     For a review of Streptococcus agalactiae mastitis check out this page from AABP.

10.    Here is a link to information from McGill University in Quebec about

        treating mastitis without antibiotics.

11.    Here is a link to control of coliform mastitis from Utah.

12.     Go here for more information about udder singeing.   This is a procedure used to              improve milk quality.

13.    For more information on Leptospirosis, here is a PDF file.

14.     Here is a link to a PDF file on bovine spongiform encepalopathy.  There are some             pictures and on page 9 there is a list of differential diagnoses.

15.    Here is a link to a page at Tuskegee with a summary on listeriosis in cattle.

16.    Here is some more information on nervous coccidiosis.

17.    Here is a link to the Center for Food Security and Public Health at Iowa State                   University.  Check out the animal disease menu.

18.    For more information on a number of cattle diseases, the Iowa Beef Center has a               number of publications, including on on clostridial diseases.

19.    Here is a link to information with pictures about botulism in cattle.

       

20.    Here are a couple of further references to pink eye;  one from Purdue and one from           Kansas.

21.    Here is a quiz from the Great Plains Center.

22.    Which breed of beef cattle is most susceptible to bovine pinkeye?

23.     Here is a link to the thermal instrument and technique demonstrated in class.