“…The selective treatment of teats in dry dairy cows has advantages over Blanket Dry Cow Therapy by reducing the indiscriminate use of antibiotics, avoiding bacterial resistance, ensuring better milk quality and greater food safety. Antibiotics should only be used for teats with subclinical mastitis, with the microbiological culture at the end of lactation performed by fourth individual mammary (Lopes et al, 2019). As the prevalence of subclinical mastitis in the herd, the cow's milk yield, and parity before drying off influence the estimates, these factors could be taken into account when choosing (a) SCC threshold(s), for example, when implementing a selective dry cow approach on the farm (Lipkens et al,2019).…”