Storing excess colostrum

[MrA.G.]

In block calving herds it seems to be quite common in NZ to store day 2/3 milk after calving prior to it being ok to be enter the bulk tank for sale. This milk is then fed back to the calves a few weeks later after the majority have calved and the calf demand is greater than the supply of non saleable milk. Aside from the johnes risk do many people do it?

the ’once a day farmer’ on Youtube had a video of his setup. Just a plastic tank, no cooling or agitation.

 

[In the pit]

We had old bull tank which had agitation but no cooling
Put excess waste milk into that and used as much as was added everyday
Johnes put a stop to it

 

[Dead Rabbits]

Yeah kind of do it here at times. Don’t have enough storage to do a significant amount it needs to be clean milk to clabber correctly. No mastitis or antibiotic milk can go in it or it spoils rather than clabbers.

I don’t like feeding it to younger ones unless you dilute it a lot 4-6 weeks+ they do great.

Some will keep all milk and add hot water and powder to it to heat it up and stretch out the store.

 

[Green Grass]

We have an ibc with plaster stirrer on timer switch for aggatation. Put some yoghurt in it to start. Only day 2+ colostrum goes in, no mastitis treated milk. Probably put 300 liters a day through it at peak to feed beef calves. Then as above sometimes feed it whole cold or half n half with powder.

 

[In the pit]

Feeding Acidified Milk to Calves — The Veterinary Centre

There has been a lot of discussion in the farming community in the last month about the use of pasteurisation and acidification of milk to reduce the risk of Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis) in your herd. Please be aware that these techniques will not stop M. bovis getting into your calves if i

www.vet111.co.nz

 

[vantage]

Feeding Acidified Milk to Calves — The Veterinary Centre

There has been a lot of discussion in the farming community in the last month about the use of pasteurisation and acidification of milk to reduce the risk of Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis) in your herd. Please be aware that these techniques will not stop M. bovis getting into your calves if i

www.vet111.co.nz

Does it work or not? The article didn’t give a definite answer and was contradictory.

 

[DairyNerd]

We do it on a small scale, just in old chemical/sheep lick tubs; save all milk then always feed the oldest, goes a bit like yogurt at times but give it a stir and its fine. Had enough all the way through calving that way.

We are flying herd so all goes to beef calves. No health problems at all.

 

[In the pit]

Does it work or not? The article didn’t give a definite answer and was contradictory.

Every article you read is the same might be good for the calf might not ,but all the research out there is from the 70/80 and an article from the 90s ,which if there was any benefits why is there not upto date research done on it
@ som farmer big thing seems to be that he has a zero cost in milk part of calf feeding ,until he has a big disease breakdown (johnes ,TB )

 

[In the pit]

Feeding Acidified Milk to Calves

This article describes reasons for acidifying milk or milk replacer and examines research on acidified milk feeding systems.

extension.psu.edu

 

[In the pit]

Very dangerous to use formic acid