Two bacterial pathogens have been identified as the principal causes of mastitis in commercial sheep flocks involved in a ...
They started with a single cell from a 6-year-old sheep’s mammary gland. That udder cell was inserted into an empty egg cell from another sheep, and over six days, a team at the Roslin Institute ...
Good udder conformation is associated with decreased risk of mastitis, according to AHDB, although 81% of the ewes in the Farming Connect study had normal udders and 71% of teats were undamaged.