Dairy chit chat II

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Thanks, BP, I meant to check today but things got a wee bit busy.

So you must keep the animal till the withdrawl is up so there should be no selling of stock that has been treated with a drug, never mind stating there is a prescription rug in their system?

I always understood that you were not suppose to sell stock within the withdrawal period. However, I have sold stock that would have been wormed/fluke dosed prior to the expiration of the withdrawal period but I would inform the purchaser prior to a deal been done. See - http://www.apha.ie/Documents/Safe_Use_of_Livestock_Medicines.pdf
It appears that the goalposts have now changed and you can now sell medicated animals as long as they are not going directly for slaughter or milk/eggs for human consumption.

George Sunsnow wrote: »

It says sell for slaughter
That wouldn't rule out a mart sale
The treatment would be declared
That of course couldn't be done by a dairy farmer as it's prohibited under the bord bia audit

It says for slaughter (meat) or sale of animal produce e.g. milk/eggs.
No- It does not rule out mart sales.
Yes,the treatment would/should be declared :rolleyes:
TBH - I wouldn't be up to date on the quango that is Bord Bia - I quit chasing that dragon years ago

Anyone at the dairy sale in carnaross on Thursday?

What's was the average?

Last day out for cows today

mahoney_j wrote: »

Milked oad for first time this year ,got the bug or just plain lazy take ur pick !!!!!,going to stick at it from now to dry off .cows we’re at 15.08 Ltrs 5.03 fat 4.09 p last test ,houses fulltime since last Tuesday be interesting to see where solids and yield go

How's scc

mahoney_j wrote: »

89 last coll ,averaging 78 for year

What would av scc want to be around for the year to get one of them plaques

mahoney_j wrote: »

No idea but a bit less than my average I’d say

Must be, you have a seriously good av scc anyway

I find they really drop yield wise and it can cause mastitis. I'll b dry in 9 days as new machine going in

Mooooo wrote: »

Anyone teat sealing heifers?

Ya, I'm seriously considering it this yr, I had to cull a couple of heifers in the spring that picked up ecoli mastitis, I know improved hygiene could have helped, but it was during peak calving days. Thinking of calling in the hoof paring lad wit the turnover crate to insert the sealers this yr.

leg wax wrote: »

getting 1 on thur night ,going to guzzel all the free wine and dinner,about the only thing i will ever get from glanbia, my scc was 60 last year, around 70 this year..

52 last year .
Missing the sesh

Timmaay wrote:

What machine ya going for?

Delaval, cluster removers, dumpline and auto gates