Stuart1
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What's your dilution rate of copper?
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What's your dilution rate of copper?
Milkcow365
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- Sw Scotland
Bag does 3 days I haven’t a clue it’s a big bath but no digi so it must be working
Milkcow365
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- Sw Scotland
Should be 375/400 once this last sheds up. Wanted to milk 400 by the time I was 21 so got 8 months to go
Happy hillbily
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- Uwchaled, North Wales
Reading this and another thread reminds me how lucky i am not to be having foot problems with my cows (he says touching a large pice of wood!) It's been that long since I've used the foot bath, I don't actually know where it is !
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Friesianfan
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- Cornwall
Never footbath. I’ve got friesians
Probably once every couple of months I use tfr or a similar detergent,mainly just to clean them.
William Mellor
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- Peak District
Once a week at this time of the year with copper sulphate and lime mixed and then once a week with formalin. In the summer do both no more once a month
newholland
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- Location
- England
Touch wood, we have never ever foot bathed a cow here either.........don't get me wrong we have a few foot problems, but I deal with those via the foot crush........are you guys really sure that foot bathing really really helps the cows with amazing results?.....or does it just make the dairy person feel better that they have done something constructive?.
Is it the reps selling the chemicals or adverts telling folks to crack on with the foot bath?
I don't mean to create an argument or criticise somebody else's way of farming, just an observation
Is it the reps selling the chemicals or adverts telling folks to crack on with the foot bath?
I don't mean to create an argument or criticise somebody else's way of farming, just an observation
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I didn't footbath for 6months in 2015,it's taken 3 years to get them somewhere near right,I only do it because of dermi,I don't get round my feet as much as I like,currently doing 50/month but not enough.
I'm mega fussy about scraping can't ever miss any.
Friesianfan
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- Cornwall
50 per month. How many cows have you got!
. How many cows have you got!newholland
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- England
Most people are very good with the scraping - my post came across wrong there......was just meaning aiming to keep feet out of slurry must be a helpful thing
supercow
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- Dumfriesshire
Christ I feel old. Do U have brothers or is it just u and your dad?
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lazy farmer
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- som/dor border
once ot twice a week here In the winter. Have found since we changed to Envirobed and it’s inclusion of lime Digi is a lot better. We mainly footbath to keep feet hard.
Milkcow365
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- Location
- Sw Scotland
Got two brothers, I’m the middle and a new entrant 5 years ago we bought a farm already milking 160 cows I left school the day we taken the farm on. We have a few different business interests
Do you have dermi? We never footbathed either but we're going to have to start now we've got it, at the end of the day all your doing is disinfecting there feet as far as I'm aware. Just another job/cost. If you haven't got dermi or a foul problem I wouldn't bother
early riser
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- Up North
Never footbathed here. Straw yards, no DD and closed herd.
Durry cows
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- Derbyshire
Headless chicken
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- West Wales
Considering there is a few monster Holsteins in the batch when you take a step back it’s amazing how they all even out
Holsteinfriesian90
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- Cornwall
How are you all managing with mud blindness and slurry with all this rain. Pits must be getting full up now.