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- M6 Hard shoulder
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- Thread starter Cows 'n grass
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- Location
- South Molton
Mixture.
No set protocol. Flexibility is key tbh.
Uddermint 1st choice. Will use udder cream to make it stretch and more slippery as well.
Make sure stripped right out.
Hard quarter will get metacam.
Yes do sometimes stop milking a quarter.
Had a cow with hard hot quarter that couldn't get anything out of.
Metacam and stopped milking. Quarter shrunk back. Cow fine.
Calved down next time with milk in all 4 quarters.
Don't under estimate a cows immune response!
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Barmyfarmer
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I'm not sure what the bug I am dealing with this winter but it really knocks the cow about at the start, hard hot quarter, off feed, but I resist antibiotics (not organic) strip quarter completely, anti inflammatory and then udder mint religiously for a couple of weeks and quarter comes back to normal.
Wouldn't of even entertained not using antibiotics a couple of years ago but amazing what can be achieved without
- Location
- South Molton
Take a sample and freeze it, just in case.
Can always bin it if not needed
early riser
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- Location
- Up North
keeping it pumped with fluids using a rumen pump is also a big game changer
- Location
- South Molton
Bucket of warm water works wonders as well.
mixed farm
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It's what you do with the money and how much you enjoy spending it that matters!
Wishful Thinker
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- Location
- Northern Ireland
That depends on the milk speed too. I’m running same litres this year but batch of slower heifers in it. Milking time went from 6.30 to 7.15. System under a lot of strain
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Good tracks. Good yard and cubicle management should mean no issues in the parlour.Yep cows an hour, mastitis and bactoscan problems are immaterial as long as you get those cups on and wack the number through!
No one wants to be a parlour any longer than they have to but there is a happy medium.
If you want to get the numbers through then any time spent on an individual cow is a hold up. Just reach for that AB tube and jobs a good un
tubed one cow since august and she had trodden on her teat and we would bang on units for 7 minute rows.Spend the time/money on prevention. Some people naturally like things to be complicated and it does my head in!
- Location
- South Molton
Whats your bacto level , coliform and therms like?
Yeah prevention is key here. That one cow here would have to go.
Treating a cow here is a dead loss cow has to go.
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Yes, we are running at around 6min 45secs with a milk speed of 2.8kg/min but we do brush over factory settings. Slow cows are a pia in robots
- Location
- South Molton
Average is too high tbh that's amber.
Ideally should be under 150.
What about coliform?
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Why does other peoples issues do your head in ?
- Location
- South Molton
Its always a difficult one, keep miking and hope or stop milking and hope.
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Not the issues as such more the way folks seem to treat the symptoms not the cause. Giving more of their income away away meaning cows then need to work harder to make the job work and and so and so the cycle goes on.
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lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
- Location
- South Molton
Last therms here was 80 and coliform 8No ideas on coliforms.
We had an issue with the plate cooler that puts two results of over 800 in our rolling figures. Barbers pay a small bonus for below 500 so if their not concerned neither am I
not paid for here....yet!
but its great signalling for where issue may be!
Once a month we get these tested for