Therapeutic and surgical management of teat stenosis in dairy cattle and buffaloes

Abstract

The study was carried out on a total number of 52 dairy animals, 30 cows and 22 buffaloes during the period of June 2021 to June 2022 in field in Mhow and nearby area. All the cases were irrespective of age, breed, parity and different lactation period. The teat affections include teat stenosis and hard milker, wound, obstructions in cattle and buffaloes. The appropriate therapeutic and surgical management was undertaken for each case. The results were uneventful for all animals. In therapeutic management, inj. ceftriaxone-tazobactam @ 10 mg per kg. body Wt. for 7 days and in surgical correction, teat was open with the help of teat siphon. The obstruction was removed by teat tumor extractor with maintaining proper aseptic condition. It was concluded that the teat affections are relatively variable between cattle and buffaloes. Out of 52 animals 46 were corrected successfully while remaining animals shows further complications and the teats were completely blocked.