Sawdust bedding

[Liamdairy92]

What are people’s routines for bedding? Looking to improve the way we do it, just after ideas more than anything

 

[Chippy]

Sweeps beds off on a Friday. Then put plenty of nadins lime on. Then put 6 Ag dispenser loads on 200 cubicles heaped up at front on the brisket board and sweep back as and when through out the week. Only do this because have robots and don’t like disturbing cows but works well for us.

 

[Scholsey]

wheelbarrow load of ardens sawdust x 2 for 220 cubicles,, mon/wed/fri brush with RS agri petrol sweeper and lime with the sawdust.

 

[pappuller]

Lime mon/weds/fri . Platte powderbed every day 1 bag/25 cubicles. All through 2 ag maxi dispensers

 

[Ducati899]

Powder bed everyday(3 bags 147 cubicles) scrap any crap off twice daily,stalosan sanitiser every Sunday & Wednesday

 

[MJKFarming]

Lime mon/weds/fri. 1 load of sawdust in an ag 150 dispenser everyday per 82 cubicles and scrap sh!t off twice a day. Started putting the sawdust on during afternoon milking rather than morning and cows/beds are a lot cleaner.

 

[Happy hillbily]

Cows on mayo mattresses, all sh1t brushed off, dusted with forage traders powder dust twice a day. Half a bag in the morning and half a bag in the evening just on the rear half of the mattress. 70 cubicles, not used lime since gone over to the dust from straw.

 

[Barmyfarmer]

Nadins lime am and pm, ag dispenser saw dust am and pm, 7 days a week

 

[Coo man]

Shepherds sawdust twice daily

 

[Spudley]

Brush and sawdust twice daily, 3 bags /150 cubicles, lime twice a week

 

[Milkcow365]

14 bags a day for 400 cubicles 4 bags of Nadis lime at lunch time on them to only started liming about 6 weeks ago every day and it’s dropped my clinical mastitis by half,
And we have dropped pre dip in parlour win win

 

[Barmyfarmer]

14 bags a day for 400 cubicles 4 bags of Nadis lime at lunch time on them to only started liming about 6 weeks ago every day and it’s dropped my clinical mastitis by half,
And we have dropped pre dip in parlour win win

We have tubed 3 cows out of 150 over the last 7/8 months, I wouldn't want to give up the lime

 

[Blue.]

3 agdispenser (175) full every evening milking and sweep off and sweep back in a morning.

I can't get on with the feast or famine style of fill up once a week,by the 6th day the beds are shitty.

 

[Adam@Rumen]

Anyone want a price for their lime

Supply all the brands listed here, just need delivery postcode

 

[Tarw Coch]

Cubicles swept each milking, one ag dispenser 175 extra full of sawdust type bedding daily for 140 ish cows in 175 cubicles.
Used to mix a bag of lime in with sawdust but haven’t for last couple of winters. Teat condition is better without the lime but bactoscans up.
Mastitis slightly better without lime but not a big enough difference to come to a meaningful conclusion but suspect better test condition may be helping...........it could just as easily be luck.

 

[zyklon]

Ends of cubicles are cleaned off with hand scraper twice a day. No brush as it’s a killer on the mattress. Each cubicle end gets one large handful of sawdust where the cows udder would be. Don’t go mad with sawdust. Wood is a killer for holding bugs and diseases hence one fresh handful.

We lime maybe one day a year with White Rhino. Worst thing you can do is lime on a regular basis. I know more people liming every other day and they would have more cases of mastitis in a week than I would in a year and when that happens, they lime more thinking it would solve the problem.

I was at a farm last week and their cows were laying in a foot of sawdust. Absolute stupidness. Moaning about the cost of sawdust used each week and has mastitis issues.

Cows need to build up their immune system so pampering your cows doesn’t help.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Cows need to build up their immune system so pampering your cows doesn’t help.

As wrong as it sounds there might be something in that, I know a couple of farms that keep their cows in some pretty sh!tty conditions that claim to have exceptionally low levels of mastitis.

 

[Happy hillbily]

As wrong as it sounds there might be something in that, I know a couple of farms that keep their cows in some pretty sh!tty conditions that claim to have exceptionally low levels of mastitis.

I had a cow here that never spent a single night in a cubicle, would always lie in the scrape passage, her lower half would always be covered in sh1t.
She was a clever cow, as soon as she heard the chain on the yard gate she would get up and stand in a cubicle, and when she heard the chain again , she would step down from the cubicle and lie back down in the scrape passage. She used to drive me nuts !!!
She only got mastitis once in her life, and that was when another cow stood on her teat and damaged it.
Vet couldnt understand why she never got mastitis either !

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Special offer on Powderdust bulk and bags .same as powderbed. Message me

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Monday delivery of fines