Which Dry cow tubes

[jerseyjon]

Just wondering what tube block calvers use. Mostly used Ubero Star but seems dear compared to similar 35-40 day withdrawl tubes. Like Bovaclox extra and Noroclox. Difference in price for 120 tube box is £130 per box comparing Noroclox to uberostar. Is noroclox any good ?

 

[bar718]

Shouldn’t you firstly ask yourself which mastitis bugs you have on farm and which cause you problems and then you can pick a tube that is active against those bugs.

 

[Green Grass]

Using nothing is the cheapest.

We used ceprivin after testing all cases in last months of lactation.

Good dose of vitamin e in the dry cow ration this year, seems to have done as much good as anything.

 

[Sid]

Using nothing is the cheapest.

Depends on how good the cows immune system is to right the wrong.

There is proof that actually using DC therapy on low SCC cows increases SCC

 

[Green Grass]

Used dct on 45% of herd last year. strep uberis plus other randoms kept rearing up.
But immune system was compromised.

After a few changes scc has being below 60 all October we are now eight weeks into calving with 4 left to calf.

 

[Green Grass]

Think I just asked for a good dose of ecoli this weekend

 

[lazy farmer]

Think I just asked for a good dose of ecoli this weekend

Well done you. What levels of vitamin e are you talking about ?

 

[lazy farmer]

We test and tube accordingly ceprevin usually.
We tune 15% or so here. And even then some
Cows it will only be 1 quarter.

 

[Green Grass]

No idea off top my head. But more than we have being getting from using blouses previously. Will try find a ticket tomorrow.

 

[Cows 'n grass]

We test and tube accordingly ceprevin usually.
We tune 15% or so here. And even then some
Cows it will only be 1 quarter.

Do you ever just tube the bad one or always do all four?

 

[lazy farmer]

Yes sorry that’s what I was trying to say above. We did it for the first time last yr seemed to go well

 

[Cows 'n grass]

Yes sorry that’s what I was trying to say above. We did it for the first time last yr seemed to go well

It's not something I've ever spoken to my own vet about but there used to be a vet on here who insisted that if they were infected they were infected and you should do all four even if the CMT only reacted on one.

 

[worker]

You could take a sample of milk from your 10 highest cell count cows and get your vet to do a sensitivity analysis to see which dry cow tube is the best for your own herd. My vet did this a couple of years ago when Cephaguard, my drug of choice, was withdrawn.

 

[Sid]

You could take a sample of milk from your 10 highest cell count cows and get your vet to do a sensitivity analysis to see which dry cow tube is the best for your own herd. My vet did this a couple of years ago when Cephaguard, my drug of choice, was withdrawn.

Was the result as you expected?
Was the tube you were using correct for the issue you had and it had cleared it up?

In theory the original DC tubes should have solved the problem along with management changes and probably another bug had stepped in to replace it?

 

[deleted user 837354]

We test and tube accordingly ceprevin usually.
We tune 15% or so here. And even then some
Cows it will only be 1 quarter.

Fair few people I know would be doing less than 15% dry cow therapy as well. Industry needs to get away from blanket routine treatments.

 

[worker]

Was the result as you expected?
Was the tube you were using correct for the issue you had and it had cleared it up?

In theory the original DC tubes should have solved the problem along with management changes and probably another bug had stepped in to replace it?

yes my previous tube was correct, but withdrawn as on the list we should not now be using. The report generated listed which drugs my herds bugs were sensitive to or resistant to, then my vet investigated which dry cow tube would do the trick for my own herd. If anyone is interested just message me and I can let them see it. I am not an expert at all but rely on expert advice, For twenty years the herd has been using selective dry cow therapy, last year 20% of herd had Ubro Red, and they all had teat sealant. I am just muddling through really!

 

[som farmer]

any cow, with no cc over 120, not tubed, just sealant. Otherwise, ubro red, boviseal.