Milk powders

Cows 'n grass · Jan 30, 2024

I realise this is a bit of a open question because everyone seems to like different powders but I just wondered what other people get on with.

The powder I've been feeding is an..

18% protein
22% oil
35% skim

I've reared plenty of healthy strong calves on this powder but it's comparatively expensive.

I'm currently pricing

Feedco
NWF
MVF
Wynstay
Britmilk.

I only buy once a year and take 10t so I don't want to buy something I later regret.

nonemouse · Jan 30, 2024

Last few years used MVF hiperformer and got on well with it. Just switched to britmilk calf supreme 24prt 20 oil skim based. Bit soon to tell but seems ok. (Only swapped from MVF cos rep moved and couldn’t get a sensible price of MVF now)

devon6400 · Jan 30, 2024

Been using this. Seems pretty good. About £2400

Great In Grass · Jan 30, 2024

Cows 'n grass said:
I realise this is a bit of a open question because everyone seems to like different powders but I just wondered what other people get on with.

The powder I've been feeding is an..

18% protein
22% oil
35% skim

I've reared plenty of healthy strong calves on this powder but it's comparatively expensive.

I'm currently pricing

Feedco
NWF
MVF
Wynstay
Britmilk.

I only buy once a year and take 10t so I don't want to buy something I later regret.

There are 9 to 10 different powders listed on "Farmdeals" click on the icon top right on this page.

Disclaimer, it's nothing connected to me!

Headless chicken · Jan 30, 2024

We’ve used act powder this year. Very pleased with it…… but im very tempted to go to whole milk for this autumn

HarryB97 · Jan 30, 2024

I use milkivit by Trouwe nutrition, get on well with it.

Homesy · Feb 1, 2024

We've been using Sprint 50% skim from Bridgmans. Best stuff we have used. On the beef calves we can swap between varing amounts of colostrum/fresh cows milk without upset.
We push them quite hard and use over 1kg/head/day no problem.

Durry cows · Feb 1, 2024

@Adam@Rumen sells a good one

crashbox · Feb 1, 2024

devon6400 said:
Been using this. Seems pretty good. About £2400

Excel Agri also do a 35% skim which is good and cheaper than the 60% skim powder shown

Spudley · Feb 1, 2024

Headless chicken said:
We’ve used act powder this year. Very pleased with it…… but im very tempted to go to whole milk for this autumn

I don't know why more people don't feed whole milk, that's all we use. It's so convenient and the calves do really well.

Homesy · Feb 1, 2024

Spudley said:
I don't know why more people don't feed whole milk, that's all we use. It's so convenient and the calves do really well.

Johnes and TB.

ollie989898 · Feb 1, 2024

Spudley said:
I don't know why more people don't feed whole milk, that's all we use. It's so convenient and the calves do really well.

Disease risk.

Save yourself a couple of grand on milk powder...fudges your herd health for years.

ollie989898 · Feb 1, 2024

HarryB97 said:
I use milkivit by Trouwe nutrition, get on well with it.

Stuff from Trouw nutrition will be good.

Spudley · Feb 2, 2024

We've never fed anything but whole milk and have very low levels of johnes. Yes we have had problems with TB but I don't think milk is the reason for that.

crashbox · Feb 2, 2024

Homesy said:
Johnes and TB.

I'm aware of the strong Johnes link.

What's the data on the TB link?

Holsteinfriesian90 · Feb 2, 2024

crashbox said:
I'm aware of the strong Johnes link.

What's the data on the TB link?

Known of a few farms locally that a cow has had tb in the udder and passed it onto the calves.

som farmer · Feb 2, 2024

l picked up couple of bags of supreme yesterday, on a per ton basis, nearly £1,000 cheaper than the last time l asked !

we feed stored colostrum/waste milk, normally, just need to eke it out at the moment.

if my maths is correct, doubtful, at the mixing rate we would use, works out roughly 30p litre, not a lot less than some actual milk price.

nutritionally, is a powder 'better' than raw milk ? Ask a rep, 'of course it is'

Spudley said:
I don't know why more people don't feed whole milk, that's all we use. It's so convenient and the calves do really well.

by the time you add in some waste milk/colostrum, you are not very far away.

that's with just the one, of many brands/strengths of milk replacers on the mkt.

disease issues, we acidify ours, some say it kills johnes, others say it doesn't, or pasteurisation

Headless chicken · Feb 2, 2024

Spudley said:
We've never fed anything but whole milk and have very low levels of johnes. Yes we have had problems with TB but I don't think milk is the reason for that.

do you do anything to treat the milk? My motives behind moving is because I’m fed up of the hangers on in the industry. Time to start to look after ourselves.

Spudley · Feb 2, 2024

We feed it as yogurt, so all that's added is a few cartons of natural yogurt at the start of the season.

Homesy · Feb 2, 2024

crashbox said:
I'm aware of the strong Johnes link.

What's the data on the TB link?

My neighbour lost over 50 youngsters from feeding whole milk from a high cell count cow. It is unusual for cows to get it in the udder but not unheard of. My father said when him and his siblings had the pr*ck skin test for TB at school they were all positive. TB in milk was one of the reasons it was pasteurised.

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