Investigation of the relationship between udder quarter somatic cell count and udder skin surface temperature of dairy cows measured by infrared thermography

Journal of Animal Science
Daire T ByrneNóirín McHugh

Abstract

The objective of the present study was to quantify the relationship between udder skin surface temperature (USST) and somatic cell count (SCC) in lactating dairy cows. Data were recorded on the same 14 Holstein-Friesian cows, at evening (15:00 to 16:00) milking every day over a 2-mo period. Surface temperature measurements of all udders were extracted from thermal images. After imaging, milk was extracted from each quarter and analyzed for SCC. Environmental and cow-related factors (i.e., ambient temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind speed, distance walked to the parlor, number of days since the udder was shaved, parity, and stage of lactation) were recorded on each day of the experiment. A large array of descriptive temperature parameters (DTP) were extracted from every udder image including temperature-based (e.g., maximum, average and minimum USST), pixel count-based, and textural-based DTPs. Several different analytical methods were tested in an attempt to relate any given DTP to SCC; this included investigating the relationship between USST and the log transform of SCC (i.e., somatic cell score; SCS). The temperature range within each udder was also compared with the natural log of the range in SCC of the respective quarte...Continue Reading

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