... 397â INRA, EDP Sciences, 2001Original article Genetic analysis for mastitis resistance and milk somatic cell score in French Lacaune dairy sheepFrancis BARILLETa, ∗, Rachel RUPPb,Sandrine ... weeks, at evening and morning milkings,as part of the milk recording. Daily SCCs were computed as the mean ofevening and morning records. Dates and causes of culling (including clinical mastitis) ... improving udder health in dairy ewes would make it possible tofocus, at least for the moment, on selection against subclinical mastitis using somatic cell counts. Indeed, subclinical infections...