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Drying off cows

  • 20-09-2012 5:22pm
    #1
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,081 ✭✭✭


    How do you dry off your milkers?
    Milk them on alternate days or just tube straight off.
    Which dry cow tubes would you recommend and do you use a teat sealer?


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  • #2
    snowman707
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    milk OAD for maybe a week,

    don't use dry cow tubes .

    we do use a sealer

    always try to give the cow at least 8 weeks dry


  • #3
    linebacker52
    Closed Accounts Posts: 476 ✭✭linebacker52


    dry off straight away

    use a good dry cow tube

    always use teat sealers


  • #4
    49801
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭49801


    td5man wrote: »
    How do you dry off your milkers?
    Milk them on alternate days or just tube straight off.
    Which dry cow tubes would you recommend and do you use a teat sealer?

    Was thinking of asking a similar q for sucklers. Had to cull a cow due to mastitis after calving. They got dried off in the shed with no tubes so our fault


  • #5
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,676 ✭✭✭stanflt


    start by cutting down the meal on feed to yield about 12weeks before their due- at 7 weeks they are dried off cold turkey regardless of milk- just umbro dry cow tubes-no sealer

    cow will get done for worms and fluke on dry off-followed by just ZANIL the day they calve

    will also get rotovac and will start spraying the top of their udders under the tail with iodine-will do this every week

    cows normally dry for 42days and most will be left in shed with just hay to dry them up


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