Managing different elements of production on dairies occupies a lot of content in livestock and veterinary publications. Like fine-tuning a race car, multiple factors affect production outcomes. In this article, Laura Reiley shares how H5N1 affects cows gleaned from a new paper published by a team of Cornell researchers.
Bird flu causes severe mastitis and decreased milk production in dairy cows AND a drop-off that may extend beyond the clinical outbreak period.
Source: FEEDSTUFFS, July 16, 2025. Link.
For a clinically diagnosed cow, we found an average of $950 in costs, which includes the milk you expect to lose over 60 days and the possible cost of removing them from dairy production.” – Matthew MacLachlan, PhD
INSIGHTS: We noted the discussion of biosecurity measures and the possibility that cumulative exposures, cow to cow, are likely from even the most diligent milking processes.