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Dawggone wrote: »

Anyone know the concentration of Formalin and Peracetic acid for foot bathing cows with mortellaro?

I put two litres into fifty of water of formalin. Not sure of the concentration of the formalin.

Edit. 35% formaldehyde.

Never used peracetic acid so no idea. If they have it bad get some lincomycin powder and an extra man into the parlour. Powerhose feet and spray lincomycin using one of those 10l garden sprayers. The ones with the pump come carry handle on top. You could put linco in the footpaths if you're trying to cut your tax bill but I don't think it's as effective.

Mooooo wrote: »

How much of the herd will be able to eat at onetime KG? The last time we added feed space there was a decent improvement but shir more cows were added then so back to square one. i know with winter milk and in particular heifers milking its more important but when/if i ever get round to extending the sheds ill try to double the feed space

We will now have 150% capacity for feeding and 130% cubicles

Dawggone wrote: »

Anyone know the concentration of Formalin and Peracetic acid for foot bathing cows with mortellaro?

Start with 5% form 1% p
Max 180 cows through 1 mix
Reduce form to 3% as you regain control
Bath for 3 milkings each week for 2 weeks and then to 2 per week for control

We've stopped using Form and pere, use an off the shelf product called Healmax. 2 litres per 200 water for 1 milking per week. We also keep some in Rose sprayer to treat clinical cows as lame group go throug parlour

Are many of ye doing diy recording? Stopped this year but will take it up again. Used to use the waikito metres are the diy ones a better job

How's solids?
14.7l
4.34p
5.27bf
On course to do 490 kilos. Few less than last year but v happy seeing as a lot of heifers milking

18.7 L
3.9p
4.24bf
4kg 14.5% p meal.
Dunno will they hold. Dry few days will help but back walking to silage fields and as the go on road I must hold them till finished milking and go ahead of them. If it stays dry may be able to get back in to wetter ground for a few days otherwise may house by night next week to stretch things out a bit. Testing next week, if I don't go clear ill dry off a good few culls straight away and sell to feed lot. If I do go clear will sell a few culls and 25 odd weanlings

Keepgrowing wrote: »

Start with 5% form 1% p
Max 180 cows through 1 mix
Reduce form to 3% as you regain control
Bath for 3 milkings each week for 2 weeks and then to 2 per week for control

We've stopped using Form and pere, use an off the shelf product called Healmax. 2 litres per 200 water for 1 milking per week. We also keep some in Rose sprayer to treat clinical cows as lame group go throug parlour

5% by volume? Or 5% concentration. At two litres of the formalin solution we use per 50l of water you're getting a concentration of 1.4%. Is the peracetic acid a good job? How much per litre/cow is the healmax? We generally put a few kg of bluestone into the baths as well.

mahoney_j wrote: »

20.6 ltrs
4.68 fat
3.91 p
Scc 58
Urea 45
3.3 kg meal *grass
Afc 1201
Per cow 460

18.8 litres
4.75 f
3.85p
73 Scc
3.75 meal

Buford T. Justice V wrote:

Iirc, it costs 22 euro if you do all the elegible animals from the one year. It will give a far better reliability to your EBI figures and allow you to easily select your better/higher EBI replacements if you are going to sell some. I think it can also sort out any mistakes in using the wrong sire on a cow like 2 cows getting the wrong straws in a group.

Does that mean it will give an EBI etc. to a cow when you aren't exactly perfectly sure who the daddy is. Or what breed he might have been?

kowtow wrote: »

Is that because of future capacity or because it will optimise performance? Or both depending on how things play out?

It's because in my experience when you build the correct size within 2 years it's too small. Future proofing.

RightTurnClyde wrote: »

I'm using this
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at 5 % vol

Costs 40€ per 25L drum

KG, what does the peracetic acid do. Do you use it every time footbathing

http://www.nadis.org.uk/bulletins/lameness-control-in-dairy-herds/part-6-foot-bathing.aspx

We now use Healmax weekly. 20 litre drum of concentrate is €200.

2 litres per 200 litres water 200 cows.

Dissapointing Scanning Result...

We have 6 empty 19/20month heifers (out of 55). Normally all in calf so this is a bit of a bummer...vet not inclined to look for a reason and says we won't find one...

So..any suggestions on what we do with them?

Any idea what they would make at the mart? Standard strong up to weight HO/Fr X...

If you have space you could Ai and sell just after they calve, have heard of heifers calving mid/ late summer and being exported for circa 1500. Don't know what they'd make as maidens at the minute tbh. Don't know would fattening them be of much benefit as they still probably grow a frame and may take time to finish