Udder & Milking
Cows & Buffaloes
Teat Cuts and Injuries — Saving the Teat, and the Quarter Behind It
Updated 26 Aug 2026 • By Falah Nutrition Desk, Animal Nutrition Advisor
A teat lives a dangerous life — centimetres above hooves, wire, thorns and the world. Cuts and tramples are common, and they matter doubly: the wound itself, and the mastitis door it opens into the quarter. Fast clean first care plus honest triage — surface graze or deep cut? — decides whether this is a nuisance or a lost quarter.
आम लक्षण
- Visible cut, tear or crush wound on a teat; bleeding
- The animal suddenly refusing milking on that side, kicking at touch
- Swelling and bruising after a trample — sometimes without an open wound
- Milk leaking from the WOUND itself — the flag of a deep, canal-reaching cut
- Later: heat, clots or wateriness in the quarter as infection follows injury
संभावित कारण
- Trodden by herself or a neighbour, classically when rising — tight packing and slippery floors
- Barbed wire, thorns, sharp trough edges and protruding nails
- Calf teeth in suckling systems; rough milking aggravating small wounds
- Low-slung, pendulous udders in older heavy milkers meeting more hazards
- Winter chapping cracks deepening into true wounds
किसान को क्या जाँचना चाहिए
- Depth triage first: graze/shallow cut, or gaping/deep — and is MILK seeping from the wound line?
- Bleeding control needed?
- Can the teat still be milked, and does milk flow normally through the canal?
- Tetanus/dirt status of the wound; flies around?
- Why it happened: the floor, the spacing, the wire — still waiting to repeat?
फ़ीड मार्गदर्शन
First care: clean hands, then rinse the wound gently with clean saline/boiled-cooled water, control bleeding with a clean pad and gentle pressure, and protect from flies; shallow surface wounds generally heal with daily gentle cleaning, a vet-approved wound application, and careful hygienic milking (milk that quarter LAST, and strip gently). Deep cuts — gaping, crushed, or leaking milk through the wound — are veterinary cases the SAME DAY: deep teat wounds heal poorly on their own, may need proper closure and protected drainage, and untreated ones commonly cost the quarter through scarring or mastitis. Watch every injured quarter with the black-plate test daily for two weeks; injured teats get infected teats' diseases. Then fix the trap that did it — spacing, bedding, that one wire — because teats don't learn, floors must.
संबंधित GOKA प्रोडक्ट्स
Dairy Cows & Buffaloes
12-18 liters/day
NDF-rich feed for healthy digestion
Dairy Cows & Buffaloes
10-15 liters/day
Maintains milk fat, prevents repeat breeding
पशु चिकित्सक से कब संपर्क करें
Deep, gaping or milk-leaking teat wounds need same-day veterinary care, and any injured quarter developing heat, clots or watery milk is urgent mastitis territory.
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