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<blockquote data-quote="Princess Pooper" data-source="post: 3329794" data-attributes="member: 971"><p>We imported 8 Holsteins in summer 2009 as late in-calf heifers, they were very well grown heifers calved at 2 yrs.. We lost one soon after calving to toxic mastitis (at a time when the cows were playing second fiddle to visiting a seriously ill fr in law) but the last one left the farm in summer 2016 and we had 4 others still in 2015, their overall performance was about the same as the rest of our herd. Health wise you will not be buying TB and they are also certified free of some other diseases - lepto I think, your importer will advise. Make sure you test for neospora if they are at a suitable stage of pregnancy. Being otherwise closed, and of reasonably high health status, we tested for Johnes, neospora (2 were rejected), BVD antigen and IBR. One did have Johnes after 3 yrs, but the others never showed any signs and we do test regularly. Talk to your vet - we were warned to watch for worms as they were probably fully housed before they arrived here so no immunity.</p><p></p><p>We sell our culls deadweight and have not noticed any difference in price despite the fact that as imports they cannot be farm assured. They were nice quiet cows that served us well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Princess Pooper, post: 3329794, member: 971"] We imported 8 Holsteins in summer 2009 as late in-calf heifers, they were very well grown heifers calved at 2 yrs.. We lost one soon after calving to toxic mastitis (at a time when the cows were playing second fiddle to visiting a seriously ill fr in law) but the last one left the farm in summer 2016 and we had 4 others still in 2015, their overall performance was about the same as the rest of our herd. Health wise you will not be buying TB and they are also certified free of some other diseases - lepto I think, your importer will advise. Make sure you test for neospora if they are at a suitable stage of pregnancy. Being otherwise closed, and of reasonably high health status, we tested for Johnes, neospora (2 were rejected), BVD antigen and IBR. One did have Johnes after 3 yrs, but the others never showed any signs and we do test regularly. Talk to your vet - we were warned to watch for worms as they were probably fully housed before they arrived here so no immunity. We sell our culls deadweight and have not noticed any difference in price despite the fact that as imports they cannot be farm assured. They were nice quiet cows that served us well. [/QUOTE]
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