Table 6.

Effects of animal characteristics on SCC in smallholder dairy and pastoral herds.

Variable	Smallholder herds		Pastoral herds
	Peri-urban	Rural	Peri-urban	Rangeland
Herd group	5.4 ± 0.1	5.3 ± 0.1	7.4 ± 0.0	7.4 ± 0.1
Lactation stage
Early/mid	5.3 ± 0.2	5.2 ± 0.1	7.4 ± 0.1	7.5 ± 0.1
Late	5.1 ± 0.1	5.5 ± 0.2	7.3 ± 0.4	7.5 ± 0.1
Udder inflammation
Mastitis negative	4.9 ± 0.1a	5.0 ± 0.1a	7.4 ± 0.2	7.2 ± 0.1a
Mastitis positive	5.8 ± 0.1b	5.6 ± 0.1b	7.4 ± 0.2	7.5 ± 0.0b
Presence of S. aureus
Absent	5.1 ± 0.1a	5.2 ± 0.1a	7.3 ± 0.3	7.7 ± 0.1
Present	5.6 ± 0.1b	5.7 ± 0.1b	7.2 ± 0.4	7.5 ± 0.1

Within each production herd, means followed by different letters for one variable are different at 5%.