Efficacy of Herbal Remedies as Alternative to Antibiotics in Dry Cow Therapy

Abstract

A comparative trial was designed to evaluate the efficacy of topical herbal gel-Mastilep gel (M/s Ayurvet limited) instead of using antibiotics as a dry cow therapy. Total 30 Crossbred advance pregnant cow were selected, divided in to 3 groups T0, T1, and T2 having 10 numbers of cows in each. Group T0 was kept as control. In group T1, dry cow therapy started with herbal gel-Mastilep for 5 days (before drying off) and 5 days (after calving). In group T2 dry cow therapy was done by using Enrofloxacin, synthetic antibiotic injection (fortvir 30mg), 2 injection at 72 hour interval, I/M. Results revealed that in the control group (T0) SCC (X10 3 ) was increased from 183 on day 0 to 186 on 5 th day and in absence of any treatment overall SSC further increased up to 203 on 3 rd day after parturition.In Group T1, the overall SCC (X10 3 ) was reduced from 187 on day 0 to 147 on 3 rd day after parturition. . In group T2, the overall SCC (X10 3 ) was 189 on day 0 which reduced to 182 on 3 rd day after parturition. On 3 rd day after parturition, milk production (liter/day) was significantly more in group T1 (14.95) followed by group T2 (14.56) further followed by group T0 (10.96).