Oct 6, 2026 · 7 min · 9 segments
Jen Roberts of Boehringer Ingelheim explains why dairy producers shouldn't put dry-off on autopilot, covering pre-dry-off vaccines, intramammary antibiotics, teat sealants, and acidogenic boluses that…
Really, it's, comes down to having that constant conversation with your herd vet.
Maybe you've got an extension specialist that you really feel comfortable talking to.
There's a lot of resources available out there between your herd veterinarian, extension.
Uh, National Mastitis Council has a lot of resources available online, and finding a good lab that can do the cultures or, um, training your personnel to do cultures on the farm can be really helpful in managing mastitis.
Not paying attention to our parlor procedure, um, making sure that we do really good, uh, prep of those cows when they come into the parlor, taking the time to do forestripping before milking to ensure early identification of those cases of mastitis, and then making sure that we are using an appropriate post-dip to help reduce the risk of contagious mastitis pathogens in the herd.
And, you know, just like we talked about not putting your dry-off on autopilot, we don't wanna put our parlor prep on autopilot either.
And so periodic refresher training for your parlor employees is going to be really important to ensure that we don't have protocol drift, and that they are implementing all of those procedures correctly.
Really, it's, comes down to having that constant conversation with your herd vet.
Maybe you've got an extension specialist that you really feel comfortable talking to.
There's a lot of resources available out there between your herd veterinarian, extension.
Uh, National Mastitis Council has a lot of resources available online, and finding a good lab that can do the cultures or, um, training your personnel to do cultures on the farm can be really helpful in managing mastitis.
Not paying attention to our parlor procedure, um, making sure that we do really good, uh, prep of those cows when they come into the parlor, taking the time to do forestripping before milking to ensure early identification of those cases of mastitis, and then making sure that we are using an appropriate post-dip to help reduce the risk of contagious mastitis pathogens in the herd.
And, you know, just like we talked about not putting your dry-off on autopilot, we don't wanna put our parlor prep on autopilot either.
And so periodic refresher training for your parlor employees is going to be really important to ensure that we don't have protocol drift, and that they are implementing all of those procedures correctly.
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