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<blockquote data-quote="Princess Pooper" data-source="post: 7534632" data-attributes="member: 971"><p>These were fresh samples, no preservative, put in our fridge, then taken to the dairy as soon as milking finished and taken straight to fridge at dairy to go with the payment test boxes to NML for that day. This was in July 2020. If the theory is that heat stressed cows gorge on water when they come in for milking and this is what lowers FPD (which is what we are advised) then our cows appear to be gorging before morning milking. But the current issues some folks are having are nothing to do with heat stress it has not been hot enough. </p><p></p><p>We sampled bulk (early on and later on) in milking and then on the pm milking we had 20 individual cow samples, of which one was 501 and one was 509. On the am milking of (the same) 20 cow samples, 5 were below 509 (lowest was 502). A cow that was 525 in the evening was 503 in the morning. Another, 521, 504, and several others similar. Other cows had identical (516/518) readings day and night.</p><p></p><p>Whatever the reasons, people are being penalised for milk equivalent to that which comes straight out of a cow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Princess Pooper, post: 7534632, member: 971"] These were fresh samples, no preservative, put in our fridge, then taken to the dairy as soon as milking finished and taken straight to fridge at dairy to go with the payment test boxes to NML for that day. This was in July 2020. If the theory is that heat stressed cows gorge on water when they come in for milking and this is what lowers FPD (which is what we are advised) then our cows appear to be gorging before morning milking. But the current issues some folks are having are nothing to do with heat stress it has not been hot enough. We sampled bulk (early on and later on) in milking and then on the pm milking we had 20 individual cow samples, of which one was 501 and one was 509. On the am milking of (the same) 20 cow samples, 5 were below 509 (lowest was 502). A cow that was 525 in the evening was 503 in the morning. Another, 521, 504, and several others similar. Other cows had identical (516/518) readings day and night. Whatever the reasons, people are being penalised for milk equivalent to that which comes straight out of a cow. [/QUOTE]
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