Ship your Samples to our Microbiology & Mastitis Lab
Send your samples directly to our Microbiology & Mastitis Lab in Arizona. Majority of reports will be generated and sent back shortly after 48 hours of receiving sample. Mycoplasma cultures take 7 full days.
Click here to order sterile screw cap culture tubes if you do not already have
It's extremely important to take as clean of a sample as possible for accurate results
Procedure for Collecting Aseptic Milk Sample
- Remove any loose dirt or bedding debris from udder and teats
- Squirt several streams of milk from the teat to be sampled
- Clean teats with cotton balls soaked in 70% rubbing alcohol & allow to completely dry
- Label each tube with a Tube # using a permanent marker
- Carefully remove cap from tube, make sure not to touch the inside of cap or top of tube
- Squirt milk into sterile test tube, and cap immediately
- Refrigerate or freeze sample right away
Please make sure to properly clean teat with rubbing alcohol before taking sample
Label each tube with a Tube # using a permanent maker & fill out Submission Form
Shipping Instructions:
- Fill out Sample Submission Form
- Make sure to take clean and aseptic sample
- Freeze Sample before shipping
- Ship in styrofoam container, with ice packs, if possible
- Ship using fastest delivery method, if available
- Ship Monday-Thursday
- Email or Call before shipping
- For first time Customers, or Small Sample Sizes (1-10 samples), please incude payment in check or cash form with your shipment.
Please Do Not:
- Do not collect sample in anything other than sterile screw cap tube
- Do not open sterile tube until everything is prepared and sample is ready to be taken
- Do not fill test tube to the brim and freeze or tube may crack
- Do not collect milk sample in blood collection tube, glass tube, or non-screw cap tube
- Do not ship on Friday
Download & Print Submission Form:
Sample Submission Form 2 pg Sample Submission Form
Ship to:
Dairy Herd Lab
1825 E Germann Rd, Suite #12
Chandler AZ, 85286
Tel: 480.857.1522
Fax: 480.857.1521
Email:DairyHerdLab@msn.com
Microbiology Services in AZ
Services
- Full Cow & Bulk Tank Analysis
- Clinical & Sub-clinical Mastitis
- Detection of Bacteria in Feed
- Detection of Bacteria in Water
