Vet Paul Redmond on the dreaded type of mastitis

I was driving to see a cow at Tommy’s recently. The call was to a cow down after calving and as he had already had a few cows that slipped in the yard and ended up in similar circumstances I was expecting to see yet another one when I arrived.

I was trying to work out in my head just why he was having so many of these cases and also what suggestions I might come up with to improve his situation.