S/No. | Question | Response type |
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1. | Herd identification | Numeric |
2. | Herd size | Numeric |
3. | Do you wash hands and/or wear gloves during milking? | Yes/No |
4. | Do you pre strip as part of your preparation before the cows are milked? | Yes/No |
5. | Do you wash the teats as part of your preparation before milking? | Never/ Only the cows with dirty udders/all cows |
6. | Do you use paper towels for the preparation of the udder before milking? | Yes/No |
7. | Do you use a (wet) cloth for preparation of the udder? | Yes/No |
8. | Do you use teat dipping/spraying before milking? | Yes/No |
9. | Do you use teat dipping/spraying after milking? | Yes/No |
10. | How regularly are your milking equipments washed? | Daily/weekly/monthly |
11. | How regularly are your milking equipments replaced? | Monthly/annually |
12. | Which of the following options describe your dry cow therapy best? | No dry cow therapy used/ Selective in the cows which I used dry cow therapy on/ I use dry cow therapy on each cows which is dried off |
13. | Do you have a separate calving paddock for your cows? | Yes/No |
14. | Do heifers and cows have the same calving paddock? | Yes/No |
15. | Do you buy replacement heifers? | Yes/No |
16. | Do you feed your cows after milking? | Yes/No |
17. | If yes, are they fed in a feed pad or in a paddock? If not continue with question 17 | Feed pad/paddock |
18. | Do you feed additional supplement to your lactating cows, choose one of the following option | To all lactating and dry cows/only lactating cows/only dry cows/other options like |
19. | Is mastitis a primary reason for you to cull a cow? | Yes/No |
20. | Do you check the udder health of individual cow timely? | Yes/No |
21. | Do you record treatments of clinical cases of mastitis? | Yes/No |