Holsteinfriesian90
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- Location
- Cornwall
We are always around when the tanker arrives so haven't had a problem that way.
please help bacto scan high!
- Thread starter Martyn
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Friesianfan
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- Location
- Cornwall
Roddas drivers always do manual dipping
Martyn
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- Location
- South west
I have several times and put laminated a4 sign with photos of how to do it, hardly difficult select 2 for stir and b for wash. They dont care, milk buyer dosnt care. We moved from a liquid contract to solids 18 months ago and our constituents have been crap since we moved! moving again further down the line
- Location
- North Devon
Driver didn’t even put the tank washing this morning.
Extra 30 mins robots were stopped waiting
Extra 30 mins robots were stopped waiting
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
I took 2 samples last week 1 auto 1 manual and the manual sample was marginally better on all fronts
Ducati899
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- Location
- north dorset
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Had 4 high bactoscans in a row 200-300’s jug tested all the robots, buffer tank, silo, checked diaphragms etc, wanted to check the silo washing so stayed up for the tanker and found the cold water solenoid was only letting a tiny bit of water through, would missing the cold rinse at the beginning and end of the wash be enough to have bactoscans that high? Have replaced solenoid this evening and seems to work fine now. Will find out thurs morning if it’s worked I guess.
dinderleat
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- Location
- Wells
Yes if you go straight in with a hot wash you end up cooking the fat on to the tank which it then struggles to move.
Will Blackburn
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- Location
- Cheshire
Cooks the protein? Heat is good on fat?
- Location
- somerset
we suffered last summer, swabbed, nothing, tried every chemical going, nothing, checked, and rechecked tank, that had the lowest reading, washed out the airline every other day, no split liners ,took plate cooler out, sampled the water, fine, as we are on a borehole, flushed all the pipes and storage tank, nothing, put a cupful of hypo down the bore every day, prewashed every cow with a pre-dip, post dipped, more samples, oh its this, or its that, spent £1000's on chemicals testing etc, let alone what it cost us in deductions, son who does all the milking, said f##k it, went back to what we'd allways done, and bs came down as well, and still is down.
- Location
- North Devon
Only once can I ever remember bactoscan problem being hygiene on this farm and that turned out to be a sampling scoop the driver had taped to the long sampling handle and kept reusing. He was putting it down the side of tank after use where it couldn’t be easily seen and had gone black as he’d not even rinsed it out.
Every other issue has always been with the cows or the sample after leaving farm.
Every other issue has always been with the cows or the sample after leaving farm.
bambershort
New Member
- Location
- North of England
If you don’t use it quickly be careful buying an IBC of Hypo, as it’s a chlorinated product it will vaporise (especially if the lid is left off like it is in most cases on a farm) you will end up with half a drum of water. As its a relatively cheap product it gets overused and it’s something that will cause the most damage to a milking plant through overuse.
s line
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- Location
- Gloucestershire uk
Hows your bactoscan now?
Scholsey
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
42 so still ropey, had milk recording results yesterday so dumped a couple of offenders and put tank to do a double wash and purged with chemical on the one wash so fingers crossed should see a improvement on next collections. Going to be 1p down as down 2 bands for bacto
s line
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- Location
- Gloucestershire uk
ok good luck.42 so still ropey, had milk recording results yesterday so dumped a couple of offenders and put tank to do a double wash and purged with chemical on the one wash so fingers crossed should see a improvement on next collections. Going to be 1p down as down 2 bands for bacto
Its so frustrating.
- Location
- South West
Check tank seal around the tank valve as mine caused mega issues. At the worst my batco average was almost a 100 and with regular spikes over 1500 over several months. Rubber seal that should be grey was black , green and yellow in places and black behind into flanges of recessed.42 so still ropey, had milk recording results yesterday so dumped a couple of offenders and put tank to do a double wash and purged with chemical on the one wash so fingers crossed should see a improvement on next collections. Going to be 1p down as down 2 bands for bacto
Worst bit is a dairy engineer had seen it 2 months before and never alerted me to what he'd seen
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
I’m not sure what you mean by tank seal and tank valve.
- Location
- South West
The manual valve with a lever
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Ah right will have a look, must admit never look at it as it has all the air valve assembly etc for the robots in front of it, the handle has even been taken from to stop it being closed by accident