Milk quality and its suitability for technological processing in cows with metritis

It has been established that the development of metritis in cows after providing obstetric aid as a result of abortion, eversion of the uterus or retention of the placenta is accompanied by an increased microbial and fungal background of the uterus. Without obstetric aid during delivery, only from 5… 9 days after birth, 35.37% of cows had genitals contaminated with various pathogenic microflora. Already on the third day of puerperia, 14 species of bacteria were isolated from cows that were assisted in delivery, which in 74.5% of cases were contaminated with pathogenic microflora: S. aureus (in 15.5% of cases), E. coli (37%), K. pneumonia (12%), and S. pyogenes (10% of cases). The results of mycological studies revealed that A. fumigatus, C. albicans and C. crusei were isolated from cows after obstetrics. It was found out that the content of somatic cells (SC) r = 0.63, the activity of muramidase (AM) r = 0.84, lactoperoxidase (LPO) r = 0.65 and lactoferrin (LF) r = 0.66 change with a high degree of correlation. Milk from cows with metritis showed 2 times higher total bacterial contamination than milk from clinically healthy animals. Milk from sick cows has a reduced number of lactic acid organisms after the first day of storage. At the same time, acid formation occurred faster by 5.0–15.0% than that in control samples of milk prepared for production of lactic acid products. The acidity in milk fermented with Lactobacillus bulgarus was 12.0-13.3% higher than that in the control sourdough samples, and the cell viability of the symbiotic combination was an order of magnitude lower (2.5×106 versus 2.5×107) compared to the control samples of the lactic acid product.