Dry Cow tubes price

red bull

Whats the best price of dry cow tubes ?

jack o shea

Anyone a price for cepravin ?

mahoney_j

Cephaguard and sealers 12 euro per cow ,8 for cephaguard 4 for sealer .should have second price tomorrow

whelan2

jack o shea wrote: »

Anyone a price for cepravin ?

Bovaclox extra are cheaper than cepravin

Jexbullcalf

Bovaclox dc extra and sealer €10/cow all in.

orm0nd

jack o shea wrote: »

Anyone a price for cepravin ?

Bovicef is the same but should be a good bit cheaper

stretch film

orm0nd wrote: »

Bovicef is the same but should be a good bit cheaper

Cep 7
Bovi 6

Sam Kade

I used orbenin extra last year on all first callers with very low cell counts and ended up with a few cows calving down with mastitis. All through this lactation I had a case of mastitis every 3 weeks to a month even will low average cell counts. I'll be using cepravin this year.

GrasstoMilk

Sam Kade wrote: »

I used orbenin extra last year on all first callers with very low cell counts and ended up with a few cows calving down with mastitis. All through this lactation I had a case of mastitis every 3 weeks to a month even will low average cell counts. I'll be using cepravin this year.

Do a milk culture test on your high scc cows and get the right dry cow tubes. Cepravin is very dear and long withdrawal if it's not the right one.
We were orbenin for years and switched to duomast this year from what the milk culture told us

leg wax

Sam Kade wrote: »

I used orbenin extra last year on all first callers with very low cell counts and ended up with a few cows calving down with mastitis. All through this lactation I had a case of mastitis every 3 weeks to a month even will low average cell counts. I'll be using cepravin this year.

had that problem last year after starting off with all heifers out on grass, changed teat spray , got rid of blue guard[my hole] , and went with virolec and have not looked back since,but dry cow tube choice is very important, and not just going on price.

pedigree 6

leg wax wrote: »

had that problem last year after starting off with all heifers out on grass, changed teat spray , got rid of blue guard[my hole] , and went with virolec and have not looked back since,but dry cow tube choice is very important, and not just going on price.

Plus allow a long enough dry cow period for their fun bags to correct and fix themselves before the next lactation.

Cepravin 7e here.

The man in red and black

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Do a milk culture test on your high scc cows and get the right dry cow tubes. Cepravin is very dear and long withdrawal if it's not the right one.
We were orbenin for years and switched to duomast this year from what the milk culture told us

Excellent advice. Knowing what you're dealing with is key. Could come a day when blanket dry cow tubes are gone and only allowed based on cultures.

Sam Kade

leg wax wrote: »

had that problem last year after starting off with all heifers out on grass, changed teat spray , got rid of blue guard[my hole] , and went with virolec and have not looked back since,but dry cow tube choice is very important, and not just going on price.

I was using iodine spray and switched to a foam dip half way through the lactation, deosan I think. I heard great things about it but it still didn't stop the mastitis cases.

RightTurnClyde

Sam Kade wrote: »

I was using iodine spray and switched to a foam dip half way through the lactation, deosan I think. I heard great things about it but it still didn't stop the mastitis cases.

I tried Deosan once based on the advice of my coop. Scc went up while I was on it. Iodine based teat dip before and after that, always got good results from it.
I always use Cepravin dry cow tubes (€6.50 this year). One of the young vets just back from NZ, was saying last Oct when she saw them in the dairy that where she was in NZ, they moved away from cheap DCT + teat sealer to more expensive tube like Cepravin and no sealer. Cut their costs and got better results, she said.
On Cepravin, it's dearer because it covers a much wider spectrum than most of the other dcts, or so the salesman said :):)

Sam Kade

RightTurnClyde wrote: »

I tried Deosan once based on the advice of my coop. Scc went up while I was on it. Iodine based teat dip before and after that, always got good results from it.
I always use Cepravin dry cow tubes (€6.50 this year). One of the young vets just back from NZ, was saying last Oct when she saw them in the dairy that where she was in NZ, they moved away from cheap DCT + teat sealer to more expensive tube like Cepravin and no sealer. Cut their costs and got better results, she said.
On Cepravin, it's dearer because it covers a much wider spectrum than most of the other dcts, or so the salesman said :):)

I used bovaclox sealer last year and it wasn't great, the minute I withdrew the tube the contents went up into the udder and there were very few cows with sealer intact at calving. Cepravin would be reasonable without sealer.

Sam Kade

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Do a milk culture test on your high scc cows and get the right dry cow tubes. Cepravin is very dear and long withdrawal if it's not the right one.
We were orbenin for years and switched to duomast this year from what the milk culture told us

Does the co op do culture testing or is it the vet only?

Buford T. Justice XIX

RightTurnClyde wrote: »

I tried Deosan once based on the advice of my coop. Scc went up while I was on it. Iodine based teat dip before and after that, always got good results from it.
I always use Cepravin dry cow tubes (€6.50 this year). One of the young vets just back from NZ, was saying last Oct when she saw them in the dairy that where she was in NZ, they moved away from cheap DCT + teat sealer to more expensive tube like Cepravin and no sealer. Cut their costs and got better results, she said.
On Cepravin, it's dearer because it covers a much wider spectrum than most of the other dcts, or so the salesman said :):)

There's talks of banning iodine based teat dips due to iodine content in baby foods so you may have to look for something else in the future.

And talks of limiting use of DCTs to something like less than 30% of cows to reduce overall farm drug use.

pedigree 6

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

There's talks of banning iodine based teat dips due to iodine content in baby foods so you may have to look for something else in the future.

And talks of limiting use of DCTs to something like less than 30% of cows to reduce overall farm drug use.

Glanbia test for iodine now.
Maybe someone will correct me but I don't think they sell teat dips with iodine in Glanbia anymore.
I also think you're not allowed use it if supplying Glanbia.
Never used it here anyway.

With the DCT's if a cow is dry long enough they usually don't need a tube. I'm straw bedding here so use a tube.
Don't worry the way we're going every cow will be tested before drying off.
Always money to be made (if I was cynical).

The future though is cell counters on each cluster in parlour.

GrasstoMilk

Sam Kade wrote: »

Does the co op do culture testing or is it the vet only?

Glanbia does it for me. Some really good vets have the technology too.

red bull

Are tubes cheaper at co op or vet ?

mahoney_j

red bull wrote: »

Are tubes cheaper at co op or vet ?

Vet here ,arrabawn way off and seemingly can't get some tubes ,vet can get them
In 24/48 hours ......

Keepgrowing

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Glanbia test for iodine now.
Maybe someone will correct me but I don't think they sell teat dips with iodine in Glanbia anymore.
I also think you're not allowed use it if supplying Glanbia.
Never used it here anyway.

With the DCT's if a cow is dry long enough they usually don't need a tube. I'm straw bedding here so use a tube.
Don't worry the way we're going every cow will be tested before drying off.
Always money to be made (if I was cynical).

The future though is cell counters on each cluster in parlour.

I think that you're confusing iodine with chlorine. TCM is the test for chlorine traces

Keepgrowing

A very important part in dry cow therapy is the drying process.
Draft cows, clean teats tube starting with nearest teat, massage up the tube and go to next, clean teat then infuse sealer. Then spray teats

Keep cubicles clean.

I couldn't recommend a Charm antibiotic test kit enough. It's the same kit the trucks have on board. All cows here have to pass this test before they are released to the tank. All cows must also pass CMT before release. If they don't we treat as a mastitis cow.

pedigree 6

Keepgrowing wrote: »

I think that you're confusing iodine with chlorine. TCM is the test for chlorine traces

I'm after getting the TCM back to zero.

They do test for iodine as well.(privately)
All milk from around here goes to Belview.
Go into your Glanbia store and ask for iodine teat spray/dip.

red bull

Any sample prices for tubes ?

GrasstoMilk

Keepgrowing wrote: »

A very important part in dry cow therapy is the drying process.
Draft cows, clean teats tube starting with nearest teat, massage up the tube and go to next, clean teat then infuse sealer. Then spray teats

Keep cubicles clean.

I couldn't recommend a Charm antibiotic test kit enough. It's the same kit the trucks have on board. All cows here have to pass this test before they are released to the tank. All cows must also pass CMT before release. If they don't we treat as a mastitis cow.

Has your scc dropped much since you started CMTing vows. Before they hit the tank