Teat seal issues

[sidjon]

I often wonder if blanket teat sealant is worth it, our cows had 3 days of just hay pre dry off, last collection was 6 litres a cow, probably another 5-7 days of milking OAD and most would be all but dry. The less you do to a cows teat end the better, no matter how good your technique is at dry off there is always a risk of introducing infection. Cue the criticism....

Mate use to do nothing to at least 50% of his herd and was near the top of barbers chart, but he was very, very clean and you could eat your dinner of his cubicle mats,we're sealing everything as still have a inch of water appearing in the cubicle shed

 

[O'Reilly]

I've found that tubes left from the previous year are a bit thicker, and seem to plug better. I try and get the air out of the tube before insertion, seems better.

 

[Barmyfarmer]

I’m using orbseal then a double coat of T-Hexx. Don’t get any leakage and cured the problem I was having with flies and summer mastitis.
Think you need to try a mix of things and see what works. And one thing I’m learning as I get older, when something works well don’t interfere or try and cut corners. Few things have come back and bit me over the years.

I dabbled with nothing for a while but were getting to many getting mastitis 4/5 days after calving.

I tried T-hexx once and thought it was useless, how do you do it? If I go to do it a day after I have tubed them like they recommend and teats are full through the parlour its going to stimulate milk let down and cause more of a problem I thought

 

[Wee Willy]

I think the key to avoid leakage is to have the cow dried off before drying off. That doesn't make sense but what I do is milk the cows oad for approx five days. They will halve their production. Then remove from parlour and feed straw for approx four days . No AB, no sealers. Cubicles well limed. SCC <100

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Sealant administration was 100% correct that's not up for debate

Did the high scc group with just AB
Another group with 2 tubes of sealant per cow
This last group had 4 tubes each

 

[happycows]

I tried T-hexx once and thought it was useless, how do you do it? If I go to do it a day after I have tubed them like they recommend and teats are full through the parlour its going to stimulate milk let down and cause more of a problem I thought

plenty of surgical spirit on a tissue to clean whole teat and bit at top that joins the udder, before scrubbing end of teat with cotton wool and more surgical spirit before tubing.
Dip once. Fluke/worm/vaccinate/bolus then dip again before letting them out the crush.
You get some peeling off after a week or so. Most gone by week 3 but by then they’ll have dried up.

 

[Tullyvernon]

People cut corners, buy the cheap stuff and then wonder why it’s not working very well. Not difficult this job if you do things properly

I use Orbseal, but have used Noroseal in the past and found it quite good also.

The most expensive product isn't always the best either.

 

[jimmer]

8 days after dry off down to milk on 9 beds this morning