In Holland during the last five years the number of farms that on more than 60 percent of the cows uses a teat sealers increased from 53 to 62 percent. In the same period the number of farms that on more than 60 percent of the cows uses antibiotics when drying up cows fell from 55 to 18 percent. Also in general the use of teats sealers increased: the number of farms that on one or more cows uses teat sealers increased from 59 to 69 percent.