ASSOCIAÇÃO ENTRE HIPERQUERATOSE DE TETO E A CONTAGEM DE CÉLULAS SOMÁTICAS DO LEITE DE VACAS GIROLANDAS

Abstract

Milk production in Brazil is extremely important economically. In addition, milk is a nutritionally rich food, which represents a greater risk of contamination by spoilage agents and pathogens, which can negatively impact the industrialization and processing of this raw material. One way to quantify this contamination is through the somatic cell count (SCC) of milk. This is affected by numerous factors such as days in lactation, parity and hyperkeratosis, a lesion that exposes the teat canal to infectious agents and consequently to a picture of mastitis. Therefore, the objective of this work is to compare the teats hyperkeratosis score, the monthly individual SCC value, the corresponding days in lactation and the parity to evaluate their relationship.