Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Apparently its carcinogenic. 30 UK farms trialing it for Arla in partnership with some of the big supermarkets. What a mess, all to solve a problem that doesn't really exist.

tb situation across north tipp is out of control …every second herd going down ….friend of mine who converted from beef in last few years went down with 18 reactors today ….not a reactor on that farm in his or his fathers time ……next door neighbour has lost over 60% of his herd …gone thru few skin tests and 2 bloods ….6 down on most recent skin tests….no legions in factory ….dept are giving him permit to buy in now 😉😉😉….now there is limitations on where he can buy but it’s a bonkers decision considering how many he has lost in last few months

I’d have more faith in blood …no legions means no visible legions ….blood picks up early stage infection …down side it will also take some false positives

Infected animals do not necessarily show visible lesions in factory - only about 30% do I believe.

If you have lumps on the skin test then TB is there, unfortunately

Bloods very inaccurate

It's a clusterf**k, 11 went here as inconclusive no lesions, my sprayer/straw man that got into cows, lost 11 also the same week inconclusives no lesions, if the 30% rule is accurate what are the chances of 22 cows from two herds going as reactors and no lesions on a single animal...

Chatting a feed rep that milks also their down in limerick and all the neighbours are down with them been on 3 month contagious testing but down their in the main anything going down in the test is rotten with lesions....

If the department don't engage the services of a couple of 100 wildlife control agents and start culling wholesale badgers/deer in hot-spot areas, come next year tb will spiral out of control

fully agree on last paragraph but can’t see them doing it …it’s already well out of control in places and more so where there was a vaccination policy in place ….farmers will start taking control of this if dept don’t

and from my experience they ain’t worth a shite unless it’s straightforward

When I was in IFA, we used to find that the affected farmers sorted the badgers before the wildlife guys got around to doing it.

A neighbouring dairy farmer told me last week that I have a huge badger on my land and I should get rid, I told him they're there a few years now and no TB breakdowns. You're better to leave them alone until there's an issue.

Same with foxes, leave them there if they're no taking lambs.

We always left the badgers alone here, along the lines of your thinking, a forestry was clear-felled beside us last winter and the dvo man when he was out said that's the issue with badgers from that wood traveling up to a 10 acre woodland we had that's been untouched for 40 odd years, bar taking timber out of it, will be cleared in January before they get a chance to rear more pups

They're missing a decimal point of heifer rearing costs, was recorded at .35-.45 cent kg ms of a range in the previous years and is down as .03 cent for 2025, read the article and no mention of a contract reader been involved and its not accounted for either in the other costs listed, throws the figures of by circa 15,000 euro for 2025