Can you help interpret these results ?

Goats Rock said:

It looks like 2.8 million. (but I may be wrong).

" In fact a SCC level as high as 1.5 million cells per millilitre would meet the United States' regulatory standard for goat milk and therefore be acceptable. Ontario does not have a regulatory SCC standard developed specifically for goat milk however many Ontario producers are able to maintain SCCs in the range of 600,000 - 800,000 cells per millilitre."

I found that on a website from Canada. A higher Somatic cell could be lots of things. Sub Clinical mastitis, late lactation- that milk has higher counts. How were your tank numbers? (bacteria etc.)

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I interpreted it the same as you, I'm going to confirm Monday though !

So the milk was a batch test from my two does, but I suspect the cause is subclinical mastitis . Neither does is exhibiting any signs , heat, swelling, off milk... However, one of my does has some udder scarring from mastitis in a precious udder that we treated at length with massage, today, tomorrow , etc. The milk also came back for coagulase negative staph, so I'm wondering if that's a holdover from that.... I now wish I hadn't done a bulk test so I could narrow it down, but I'll retest when they refreshen in the spring.

The tank culture came back looking great. So I think the somatic count is from the subclinical mastitis . I may create another thread to address that all specifically , and determine the best course of action considering she isn't showing any symptoms.

Actually - I may just leave it like this and only post another if it doesn't get any good attention.

I'm kind of torn about next steps because she isn't exhibiting any issues... I'm thinking the best next steps may be to finish drying her up, give her a dose of ToMorrow, and retest in the spring. Does anyone else have any advice for a doe that has subclinical mastitis , with no symptoms, aside from her existing scarring ? The scarring is like two small lumps, one in each udder. I have no idea how she got the mastitis, she was a virgin doe and it just happened in her precocious udder in fall of 2019. She had no issue feeding her kids and actually was a great milker.

One other tiny thing ; My other doe has always been pretty lopsided, even before kidding so it wasn't the result of "milk draw" from the kids. Again, I'm kicking myself for not having the milk tested separately, but I'm wondering if maybe she has some subclinical mastitis going on causing the unevenness. Or maybe sometimes that just happens? Again, no symptoms of mastitis, no discomfort, and her udders are soft and lump free. She's also almost dried up.

I'd love advice as far as how you would proceed... if you'd treat them both with a round of tomorrow and assess in the Spring... if you'd just assess in the Spring and leave them be.... and , if you have a goat that has a similar situation , will her lab results when the milk is tested always come back with such a high somatic count and with the staph detected?

Merry Christmas everyone!