Signpost wrote: » Copying a post I just made in rage from the Glas thread to here, be interested to know what payments the rest of the dairy lads are without and if anyone has any experience of how to get the blatant abuse of power of the department highlighted? Constant waving the European payments stick at us but we seem powerless to complain when they are clearly abusing their power of authority and not meeting the commitments they set.
Mooooo wrote: » Early Xmas present in post there, glands came back from inconclusive clear of TB so clear to sell now. Will have most extra stock gone before calving starts thank god.
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » A nice Christmas present:) I was talking to a neighbour who had 4 heifers and 9 cows taken last week. He had escaped the first round of it but some animals from an outfarm 5 miles away for 18 months went down. He can't figure out how that happened:(
Mooooo wrote: » Hard to make sense of it at times. The inconclusive that the results came back from was an empty cow so not a massive loss so to speak. We had a doubtful in the first retest as well and send her off and she came back clear as well but 800 euro factory value for an in calf heifer worth over 1500 is bollix too
freedominacup wrote: » Was she not valued?
blackdog1 wrote: » I see curtains are having a open day on calf raising and crypto prevention..... Funny thing is they have crypto and can't get rid of it. That's according to a Teagasc researcher at a meeting a month ago. I hope they have the right foot bath...imagine all those farmers walking around there and picking it up...
Keepgrowing wrote: » When's that on?
mahoney_j wrote: » That's a very good reason to give that particular event a miss .not worth the risk of bringing it. Back home
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » I was at one last spring and they had the usual disinfection baths and they also had disposable plastic covers for your shoes as well. The risk is minimal, I'd say.
pedigree 6 wrote: » Wash your clothes when you get home as well.
GrasstoMilk wrote: » Was my yard that bad :P:P
yosemitesam1 wrote: » Has anyone on here ever fed kefir to calves? Thinking of feeding it this spring.
whelan2 wrote: » Bit of a disaster here today. Went to give later calving heifers second shot of salmonella vaccine. Went to read label to see what length of time there's to be between shots. It's the wrong vaccine. It's bovipast not bovivac. I ordered salmonella vaccine and assumed that's what I was given. Sales rep put his hands up and said it's his error. All cows etc are not covered for salmonella now and vaccine wont be available until march. Have been dealing with this fella for over 30 years. Cost me over 1300 euro. Fook it
jack o shea wrote: » Whelan, will the rep not foot the Bill? On another note,Do bulls need to be done for salmonella?
alps wrote: » Fook it is right...that's a nasty predicament to be in....he should go all out to find you replacement product....would board ops be good enough to find out if bovivac is available in any part of the country? Unfortunately my vet has just told me it's a Europe wide shortage...but you never know.. Back again....was this guru trying to pull one over on you...my vet says it's gone since no member.
kowtow wrote: » I imagine it would work as well as any live yoghurt strain but I'm not sure that a Kefir culture would add anything over and above the bacteria already in the raw milk - particularly if you start your milk with a fresh cow or two? How are you thinking of keeping the mix going? We have a commercial pasteuriser here which we are about to install and there it's possible to set a combination of temperature and PH to govern the heat / agitation cycle. Thinking of keeping a consistent batch going during calving and then drawing off each day but also haven't decided what starter to use... IMO you'd want as little starter culture as possible or as natural as possible so as to not crowd out the bacteria in the milk. A pot of live unadulterated organic yoghurt would work.
mahoney_j wrote: » It's very late to be vaccinating for salmonella now .i always did heifers early sept and booster early October and cows also .on vets recommendation I now go early August and September .if salmonella is going to hit its most likely from october on .tgat was a costly and poor mistake on vets behalf .i heard something about a shortage of salmonella vaccine due to a bad batch which involved a recall
Wildsurfer wrote: » Not necessarily, if its abortions as a result of salmonella you are trying to control then September is the time to go but if its salmonella scour in calves is the problem then you would be going a few weeks before calving begins so most likely early January.
