By Terry Fyock, Robert Whitlock, and Raymond Sweeney Reprinted with permission of Hoard’s Dairyman
The importance of finding and culling cows in a herd that are shedding excessively high numbers of M. paratuberculosis bacteria in their manure, so called “super-shedders”, is described in this article in the October 10, 2009 issue of Hoard’s Dairyman.