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  1. grahampadfield

    Milk taint

    That’s interesting, May 2020 was very dry. The silage was 21% D.M.. but it was cut low and there was some dead grass in the bottom. Perhaps we picked up manure. We always have a lot of weed because we are organic. Daisies,dandelion,dock,plantain, thistles, and charlock. We need to pin it down as...
  2. grahampadfield

    Milk taint

    Thanks for all the suggestions. The taint is definitely in the silage. Changed silage, taint stopped. But we still don’t know what weed has caused the taint. Will just have to separate the weedy silage somehow next time I suppose
  3. grahampadfield

    Milk smell

    Milk taint smell. We are organic and have had huge problems with tainted milk. Suspected ...TBC, teat dip, ketosis. Etc eventually stopped feeding last seasons silage. Fed some 4 year old silage from the back end of the clamp. The milk is no longer tainted. Must be the charlock/dandelions or...
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