All things Dairy

[Dead Rabbits]

We had 16mm of rain last night. A mixed herd of Jerseys and Crosses enjoying some ryegrass, lucerne and chicory pasturesView attachment 828447

What’s your location?

 

[coomoo]

Still struggling with this new format. Shut the shed doors this morning that’s cows in August rain has just not relented here in Sw Scotland. Good forages in the clamp and straw prices back sub hundred pound always looking for the positive’s

 

[Sylution]

Some 4th cut grazing for the cows. Save on baleing some of the fields, pit full.

 

[Dian Landman]

What’s your location?

South Africa

 

[Bald Rick]

Can you understand the Cardiganshire/Carmarthenshire accent yet?

Use the universal Caernarfon Welsh ....

 

[Bald Rick]

How is the udder gun going?

Not good.
Thought by providing one , we would remove a variable. Instead both bactos and cells have gone shooting up. Trying to get to the bottom of it

 

[Milkcow365]

Not good.
Thought by providing one , we would remove a variable. Instead both bactos and cells have gone shooting up. Trying to get to the bottom of it

What’s the theory’s

 

[Bald Rick]

What’s the theory’s

World and his wife seem to have one but it’s interesting that if we use clothes both bactos and cells go down. Why? Maybe:

1) brush is causing stress to the cows increasing cells. However we had brushes on robots and cells around 150
2) brush is loosening bacteria and the cupper on is too close. So brush auto loaded with acid and mat put out down the line to have good separation between brusher and cupper
3) mastitis is not being detected using brush but no witness lumps on filters
4) rotary too fast to brush properly. Possible but no faster than clothes. Perhaps wipers aren’t reaching all teats with brush?
5) brush heavy in use. Do wipers fatigue easily so skimp? Think they job swop at halfway point.

All ideas considered ..

 

[Dead Rabbits]

South Africa

Yeah where specifically?

 

[Dead Rabbits]

World and his wife seem to have one but it’s interesting that if we use clothes both bactos and cells go down. Why? Maybe:

1) brush is causing stress to the cows increasing cells. However we had brushes on robots and cells around 150
2) brush is loosening bacteria and the cupper on is too close. So brush auto loaded with acid and mat put out down the line to have good separation between brusher and cupper
3) mastitis is not being detected using brush but no witness lumps on filters
4) rotary too fast to brush properly. Possible but no faster than clothes. Perhaps wipers aren’t reaching all teats with brush?
5) brush heavy in use. Do wipers fatigue easily so skimp? Think they job swop at halfway point.

All ideas considered ..

Just start slapping milkers on with no prep and add things back one at a time.

 

[jimmer]

World and his wife seem to have one but it’s interesting that if we use clothes both bactos and cells go down. Why? Maybe:

1) brush is causing stress to the cows increasing cells. However we had brushes on robots and cells around 150
2) brush is loosening bacteria and the cupper on is too close. So brush auto loaded with acid and mat put out down the line to have good separation between brusher and cupper
3) mastitis is not being detected using brush but no witness lumps on filters
4) rotary too fast to brush properly. Possible but no faster than clothes. Perhaps wipers aren’t reaching all teats with brush?
5) brush heavy in use. Do wipers fatigue easily so skimp? Think they job swop at halfway point.

All ideas considered ..

Have you tried just dry wiping?

 

[Bald Rick]

Just start slapping milkers on with no prep and add things back one at a time.

Have you tried just dry wiping?

Tried that and got bactos down to around 60 but suppliers of the brush insist we keep trying and have been out swabbing.
Going to blitz the beds as they swabbed high under the sawdust. Have noted bit of milk leakage so starting at cow end and working forward. Have QMMS on board too to go through plant. Sort it one way or another

 

[Blue.]

If I’ve ever had a high bacto,pre spraying with teat dip halved the bacto,cows housed 365 for 12 years now,never missed top band for bacto and cells (has to be under 30 for bacto and 200cells),no milk recording just attention to detail,dry wipe,strip,attach,milk then tear spray.

 

[farmboy]

Does the brush leave the teats dry? Or leave some wet shitty residue behind that then comes off in the cups?

 

[Cuthbert]

If I’ve ever had a high bacto,pre spraying with teat dip halved the bacto,cows housed 365 for 12 years now,never missed top band for bacto and cells (has to be under 30 for bacto and 200cells),no milk recording just attention to detail,dry wipe,strip,attach,milk then tear spray.
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So you just dry wipe with clothes or paper towels?

 

[Dian Landman]

Yeah where specifically?

Sorry. Tsitsikamma Area, Eastern Cape. Between Port Elizabeth and Plettenbergbay.

 

[Dead Rabbits]

Sorry. Tsitsikamma Area, Eastern Cape. Between Port Elizabeth and Plettenbergbay.

A mere 9000 miles away. Is that a good place for a grazing dairy?

 

[Glaswellt]

Getting the cows in

 

[Ducati899]

Bit of early morning 4th cut

 

[Dian Landman]

A mere 9000 miles away. Is that a good place for a grazing dairy?

Yes one of the best areas in South Africa. Also second largest milk producing area in South Africa