Data consisting of 172,304 test-day records of first lactation Holstein cows were used to evaluate non-genetic effects on Somatic Cell Count (SCC) and Somatic Cell Score (SCS). Milk samples were collected in Holstein herds supervised by the Dairy Herd Analysis Program, at Paraná State, Brazil, between January 1983 and December 1998. The statistical models included the fixed effects of region (Reg), number of milkings (NM), days in milk (DIM), age of cow (AC), month of test-day (MTD), days of storaging […]