STUDY OF MASTITIS IN DAIRY SHEEP USING SURVIVAL ANALYSIS

Mastitis is the most prevalent disease present in livestock species leading to economic loss. In dairy sheep, it caused mainly from bacterial infections. The aim of this work was to investigate the risk of having mastitis in Valle del Belice dairy ewes during the first lactation, due to environmental or contagious pathogens, using a survival analysis approach. All test‐day records from primiparous ewes were collected from five flocks. All test‐day were grouped in two data sets, one with mastitis due to environmental pathogens (ENV) and the other with mastitis due to contagious pathogens (CON). In this analysis the follow up period of a ewe was the lactation, consequently all the record bega…