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Correct way to dry off a culled cow

  • 04-04-2016 9:35pm
    #1
    WexTK
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    Hi all,

    have an old cow just after calving which I don't want to go through the milking parlour again as she has a high SCC. Ideally I'd like to dry her off properly and fatten her for the factory. Just wondering the safest way to dry her off so soon after calving,

    regards WexTK


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  • #2
    Milked out
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭Milked out


    WexTK wrote: »
    Hi all,

    have an old cow just after calving which I don't want to go through the milking parlour again as she has a high SCC. Ideally I'd like to dry her off properly and fatten her for the factory. Just wondering the safest way to dry her off so soon after calving,

    regards WexTK

    Don't milk her, leave her in cleanest place you have and she should soak away up.


  • #3
    Farrell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭Farrell


    WexTK wrote: »
    Hi all,

    have an old cow just after calving which I don't want to go through the milking parlour again as she has a high SCC. Ideally I'd like to dry her off properly and fatten her for the factory. Just wondering the safest way to dry her off so soon after calving,

    regards WexTK
    Would selling her to feed calves be an option, & save the time & expense of feeding?


  • #4
    ELP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 180 ✭✭ELP


    Had a sucker yesterday with a dead calf - born a few weeks early I'd say. Going to dry her off and finish her. I went the vet's office and girl there give me dry tubes to put in her, will this keep her right? Or is it too early to use them.


  • #5
    whelan2
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    ELP wrote: »
    Had a sucker yesterday with a dead calf - born a few weeks early I'd say. Going to dry her off and finish her. I went the vet's office and girl there give me dry tubes to put in her, will this keep her right? Or is it too early to use them.
    If she hasnt been sucked or anything just leave her alone and she will dry up herself


  • #6
    Farrell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭Farrell


    whelan2 wrote: »
    If she hasnt been sucked or anything just leave her alone and she will dry up herself
    +1 but if you broke the seal, use the tube


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  • #7
    kerryjack
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    I don't think there is a correct way for a dairy cow thats bred to milk to be dried off straight after calving its bad management to put her in calf in the first place. would you not put a couple of calves under her and let her off for the summer and fatener then.


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