Informe final de pasantía profesional en la Ganaderia del Fonce Foncegan San Gil – Colombia. Mastitis gangrenosa en una vaca jersey manejada en un sistema free stall en la Ganadería del Fonce San Gil – Santander.

Abstract

Mastitis is a highly prevalent disease in all dairy farms and is even higher in confined systems where large numbers of animals are managed in confined space areas where this infection is not controlled in time the animal begins to lose one of the most important of a dairy farm is the mammary gland, indispensable organ for the production of milk in this case is a Jersey cow 7 years old who started with very clear signs of clinical mastitis which was quickly detected organs and isolated for further treatment, will start antibiotic therapy with some products of choice as lincomycin, neomycin, to take a few days began to notice that mastitis continued and began to see necrotic tissue around the nipple and around the affected quarter therefore it is determined that the course of the disease was gangrenous mastitis some Clostridium spp therefore it was decided to establish an antibiotic therapy control penicillin and performing a surgical procedure to perform a mastectomy affected quarter and make a adequate therapy that would allow the animal to recover.