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Take control of your cows' udder health

Profitability

The DeLaval DCC shows you the way to more profitable milk production. With the DCC herd management tool you can measure and monitor your cow, cow quarter or bulk tank somatic cell count in under a minute, on the farm.

The DeLaval DCC allows you early mastitis detection, for cost-effective control of udder health and herd management. By using the DeLaval DCC you utilize the opportunity to maximize the amount of milk your bulk tank. The lower the cell count, the more milk you will get from your cows so the DeLaval DCC pays for itself in a short time.

Milk production loss

Estimated loss of milk income per cow associated with an increase in SCC.

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Udder health

Your main udder health control parameter is the somatic cell count. A high number of somatic cells in the milk, indicates a high number of mastitis cases amongst the cows.

Clinical mastitis is possible to detect when the cell count is very high and you can see clots in the foremilk.

But for every case of clinical mastitis there could be between 10 and 40 cows with an undetected sub-clinical mastitis in the herd.

To detect sub-clinical mastitis you have to know the somatic cell count.

DeLaval DCC makes it possible to detect mastitis infection at an early stage, when it is easy and cost effective to treat it and before it spreads within the herd infecting other cows.

Herds with mastitis under control will have a bulk tank somatic cell count below 100 000 cells/ml milk.

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