Disastrous scanning what would you do?

[Farmer Keith]

I had scanner man this morning. 50 cows =£100.
Vet call out fee £50,scanning fee £3.50. 50 cows =£225 . Practice may send out new vet who takes hours. Scanner man 100% accurate.

Works fine in a block calving scenario but I suppose if you’re AYR and some of the empties need something more you need to get the vet out anyways.

 

[TheRanger]

I had scanner man this morning. 50 cows =£100.
Vet call out fee £50,scanning fee £3.50. 50 cows =£225 . Practice may send out new vet who takes hours. Scanner man 100% accurate.

42 cows, £30 call out fee, 70 minutes at £110, plus treatments to empties. Hardly worth me getting two separate visits here, but can see why some might get a scanner man in if you're block calving.

 

[Princess Pooper]

Our vets will scan 100’s of cows a week each. It’s their bread and butter as dairy vets (a lot of HIHO in this area, maybe spring block vets are different?)

We use milk testing for PD, not scan, but our vet said if we wanted scanning, he would give us the number of the local scanner who was very good and more cost effective than using the vet.

 

[Blue.]

Vets do very little scanning so they aren’t that proficient at it ,better to use a scanner man

Our vets do far more scanning than vetting.

Some vets are good some are bad it's a fairly human trait.

Very easy to blame the vet on this one,some farmers are bad at spotting bullers,simple as.

 

[TheRanger]

We use milk testing for PD, not scan, but our vet said if we wanted scanning, he would give us the number of the local scanner who was very good and more cost effective than using the vet.

We used to use the milk recording. Had a number of cows that were dried off, but ended up empty. Never had that with the vet. As I said, scanning is our vets bread and butter, there’s numerous 1000+ AYR cow herds doing weekly fertility visits. Maybe in other areas of the country, they don't get the practice.

 

[In the pit]

Our vets do far more scanning than vetting.

Very easy to blame the vet on this one,some farmers are bad at spotting bullers,simple as.

Move down into tb territory
Vets here spend most of there time testing ,vet stuff is secondary

 

[In the pit]

We used to use the milk recording. Had a number of cows that were dried off, but ended up empty. Never had that with the vet. As I said, scanning is our vets bread and butter, there’s numerous 1000+ AYR cow herds doing weekly fertility visits. Maybe in other areas of the country, they don't get the practice.

Big herds here ,vets tend to see cows 60 days plus and not served and then they sync them
Scanner men do the pding

 

[Dead Rabbits]

I have found there is a massive difference in preg checking stamina around vets and preg checkers.

Many are experienced but have never had to do hundreds per day. Had one guy with years of experience, that was his only job on a large dairy, absolutely miserable after 200 in a row and that wasnt even half of what we needed that day. This very much affects their accuracy.

We usually blood test opens now days. For us the cost is worth it even if you only get 2 cows extra that were missed.

We now have a local guy that we use and he does ok, still doesn’t like big days but he can handle it better now.

 

[Farmer Keith]

If you’re milk recording and know your dates it’s a no brainier.

 

[Headless chicken]

Minor update doing our routine bvd screening has thrown up high levels of exposure which would go so way to explain mediocre heifer performance at grass this year.
No assurances but there a chance that this was a contributing factor to last years issues.
PI hunt now starts with tag and test on all youngstock.

 

[lazy farmer]

Minor update doing our routine bvd screening has thrown up high levels of exposure which would go so way to explain mediocre heifer performance at grass this year.
No assurances but there a chance that this was a contributing factor to last years issues.
PI hunt now starts with tag and test on all youngstock.

Will you pool bloods?

 

[Beef farmer]

Minor update doing our routine bvd screening has thrown up high levels of exposure which would go so way to explain mediocre heifer performance at grass this year.
No assurances but there a chance that this was a contributing factor to last years issues.
PI hunt now starts with tag and test on all youngstock.

Do you not vaccinate?

 

[Headless chicken]

Will you pool bloods?

Not a clue as of yet how well go forward vet is here over the weekend to sort health plan so we will work out a plan. I’ll

Do you not vaccinate?

Yes but think we’d lapsed jabs between timings as we did it with tb test which I think allowed a small unprotected window. Could be totally wrong and it may not be in the cows.

 

[Kiss]

Vets sorting a health plan on the weekend is keen,

Our vets tell us just testing 5/6 in the cohort is enough once they’re 8 months old and altogether since weaning,