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Are antibiotics permitted for the control of mastitis?
Where the animal displays clinical symptoms?
Yes, if no other remedy will be effective.
Prophylactically on a whole herd basis (i.e. dry cow therapy)?
No, this is not allowed, but it is possible to obtain permission to give dry cow therapy to individual animals with a high cell count, or persistent problems, and which are not to be culled.