- Location
- Derbyshire
I remember getting halfway through milking with the pipe emptying on the floor once
Antibiotic failures.
- Thread starter lazy farmer
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I remember getting halfway through milking with the pipe emptying on the floor once
The swap of groups usually offers a 5 minute mental break for a cheeky smoke or in my case half a pack of chocolate digestive so it'll be done then.
frederick
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- Location
- south west
We have auto id and its excellent. BUT cows are all marked and whiteboards etc as if we didnt and reinforced with everyone. It's possible for I'd to die and keep parlour going and I want things as straightforward if needed.
18 years of auto I'd 2 milkings have had it not working.
Other risk of auto I'd if number is entered wrong wrong cow will be blocked. Tape etc is handy backup.
betweenthelines
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- Location
- southwest
And the milk was probably already on the way to the customer!
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
I would hope not as our cheese is normally stored for 18 months
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Had same here, knew it happened, break in protocol, relief didnt dump cow on computer before treating so robots put in 2 litres 12 hours after tubing, tested milk twice with beta tests here, passed, tanker driver tested it twice, passed, tanker obviously passed and went into well known southern yogurt producer, milk failed NML AB test, fined 8grand! got insurance for £1500 because NFU wouldnt pay a fine only damages passed onto farmer.
- Location
- somerset
wonder how much actually gets disposed of, as to the amount we get charged ! If it passes the lorry test, other than a weekend, its been 'used' by the time nml test is back ! nice little earner ?
- Location
- somerset
did you find out the 'cause' for the failure ? I hope I can post the reason, for the question tomorrow.
ollie989898
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I've a sneaky feeling a lot of these antibiotics will be disappearing before long- they certainly won't be replaced with any new ones any time soon.
A lot of units in this area were ahead of the curve anyway, some people I know have given up on routinely using dry cow tubes and gone to various udder seals and the like instead. I don't know how effective these are to be fair.
ollie989898
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I would imagine the cheese boys are utterly paranoid about it. A lorry load of milk is one thing (expensive enough) but a contaminated batch of cheese would be big money.
I always thought the antibiotic policies and Milk Sure would be similar for anyone involved in the cheese job irrespective of who you sent it to nearly.
Irish NZ
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- Location
- The mighty Waikato NZ
Separate group always. Reading some of these comments has me breaking out in a cold sweat.
Fonterra generally have you bent over and have gone in dry by the tanker has made it to the depo.
Fonterra generally have you bent over and have gone in dry by the tanker has made it to the depo.
kiwi pom
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- Location
- canterbury NZ
Ahh the sound of the strip tester going beep beep beep.
Ruins the shift every time
Do they test on the truck now? they were trialling it when I left?
Selective dry cow therapy and ahead of the curve? Really? 10 years ago maybe.
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
More like 20 when we were importing them from Ireland cos they hadn’t been licensed here
Spudley
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- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Irish NZ
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- Location
- The mighty Waikato NZ
Ahh the sound of the strip tester going beep beep beep.
Ruins the shift every time
Do they test on the truck now? they were trialling it when I left?
Not sure not had any experience of it thankfully.
Had a mate fail last year had the call very quickly after the tanker left his place at 3am may have been coincidence tho.
Had a 2am phone call from fonterra once my heart sank. Turns out the chiller on the 2nd vat failed and they couldn't/wouldn't pick it up was only a few thousand litres so wasn't a big deal but I didn't sleep for the rest of the night....
Cows 'n grass
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- Location
- Modbury, South Devon
multi power
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
Until something abnormal happens or someone comes into the parlor to cause a distraction, I used to have a system to divert milk to calves that I could see from the pit, so reassuring to see the milk actually going where it should be
betweenthelines
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- Location
- southwest
Cheese boys I agree. My experience is with liquid milk. No way you can ask for a retest on anything like FPD, (which is a faulty test anyway) BF, SCC etc. when the milk is already sat in Tesco's fridge before you're told there's a "problem"