Milk smell

[grahampadfield]

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 something in the silage.

 

[Cowabunga]

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 something in the silage.

Anything related to garlic will taint. The most common source of taint is butyric acid. Butyric silage will almost certainly taint the milk. Silage additives and weedkillers do have their uses.

 

[Whitewalker]

We had a 10 days of it . Some of the nicest silage we made . Moved from clamps to bales . I think it’s more the cows system adjusting to different feed . We’re settling down now but they are still on the same silage

 

[Sid]

Fermentation issues can cause it.

 

[Cowabunga]

It could also be totally unrelated to feed. Some milking machines may have diaphragm valves separating wash water from milk lines and if one of these gets a puncture, letting some water contaminated with circulation cleaner to mix with the milk, very little will contaminate with taint. Not saying it is quite that, but there is a slight possibility of it being something similar.

 

[Sid]

It could also be totally unrelated to feed. Some milking machines may have diaphragm valves separating wash water from milk lines and if one of these gets a puncture, letting some water contaminated with circulation cleaner to mix with the milk, very little will contaminate with taint. Not saying it is quite that, but there is a slight possibility of it being something similar.

Have seen circulation cleaner throw up a false positive for AB

 

[ollie989898]

Have seen circulation cleaner throw up a false positive for AB

That sounds expensive...