yogurt milk

dar31

dose the milk for yogurt milk have to be 100% free of antibiotics.
if using antibiotic milk and refresh yogurt every week, would this do.
there is milk from fresh cows still in dry cow withdrawal and then there is cows that have been jabbed.

some of the calves have a bit of a scour, but not sick in any way. thought if i made up some yogurt milk it might help them along.
just being a bit causes with them as i had a bad run last year.

anyone any experience with yogurt milk and antibiotic milk.

funny man

dar31 wrote: »

dose the milk for yogurt milk have to be 100% free of antibiotics.
if using antibiotic milk and refresh yogurt every week, would this do.
there is milk from fresh cows still in dry cow withdrawal and then there is cows that have been jabbed.

some of the calves have a bit of a scour, but not sick in any way. thought if i made up some yogurt milk it might help them along.
just being a bit causes with them as i had a bad run last year.

anyone any experience with yogurt milk and antibiotic milk.

Antibiotic milk defeats the purpose, the idea is to grow the bacteria (good) by letting warm milk settle and the antibiotics kills them off. I would keep fresh milk for young calves before they go on to the yogurt milk.

Bizzum

If you are trying to make yoghurt, you typically introduce a bacterial culture like Lactobacillus spp to milk and hold at a particular temp.
If antibiotics are present in the milk in sufficient quantities, the Lactobacillus will be inhibited or indeed eliminated.

dar31

funny man wrote: »

Antibiotic milk defeats the purpose, the idea is to grow the bacteria (good) by letting warm milk settle and the antibiotics kills them off. I would keep fresh milk for young calves before they go on to the yogurt milk.

at the moment there is 40 - 50 gls a day in antibiotic milk being taken down, so really dont want to be taking down good milk for yogurt, in a week or two i will have to take good milk to feed calves, can do it then, just to get through the next week to 10 days.
id planned on giving it to calves a week and older.
what age is it advisable to start them at

funny man

dar31 wrote: »

at the moment there is 40 - 50 gls a day in antibiotic milk being taken down, so really dont want to be taking down good milk for yogurt, in a week or two i will have to take good milk to feed calves, can do it then, just to get through the next week to 10 days.
id planned on giving it to calves a week and older.
what age is it advisable to start them at

i keep the antibiotic milk seperate and throw it to bull calves while the heifers get whole milk, my neighbour puts them on it a week old and he swears by it.

keep going

its generally better to keep on fresh warm milk for a week or so because the yougurt milk even with its mixed with warm milk is a bit colder for younger calves. its difficult to heat it as it tends to curdle and separate