Thanks for sharing that, Happy Christmas.
just put half the cows through crush giving vac plus lice, will go with rest tomorrow
Had a cow yesterday with a teat stood on, split but canal in tacked, does this happen to others, any 1 with a brainwave to stop this
Happened here just before drying off. Second time it's happened to me in the last 2 years. First one healed fine. This one looks to be healing too but a word of warning, both got mastitis in the affected quarter.
I put it down to too many in too tight a space to be honest.
can be just one of those things aswell. had one calve down this autumn with teat split. couldnt get it milked out so shes a three spinner now. had one before and the milk just kept flowing out of it.
Ye, normally have one every year.
I've 120 cubicles for 100 cows so I've lots of room,I dried her off and let her on grass, hopefully she won't get mastitis 🤞I've 2 others that happened aswell 1 split and got mastitis and the other half the teat came of and it flows out when she comes in for milking
How do you select bulls. Breed for better attached udders and shorter teats. If using Irish bulls this info isn't usually available.
It is in fairness first screenshot is a bull I've used alot of here and second one is pivotal
It's just that the icbf couldn't give a fiddlers about it our most irish farmers, but given they don't realise what a nice uddered cow is you can't really blame them
Long big teats aren't usually an issue with holsteins and I wouldn't recommend ever using short teat bulls. If overcrowding's not an issue, I would look at cubicle comfort next by watching how often you see cows standing with their two front legs on cubicles? That's how the injury happens and is a clear sign cows don't like some aspect of the cubicles.
Well one thing for shure anyone using a lot of Pivotal will have plenty burst teats and mastitis.
Cows with damaged teats is usually cows with sagging udders with long teats standing on their own teat when getting up. Was that soldier many years ago but thankfully haven't seen it for years since we started breeding good uddered cows.
Those extreme low swinging udders are obviously a problem for that regardless of teat length. It's just such a heritable trait it needs minding unless you want to be holding up clusters all the time.
Is there a council procedure for piping water across the road from source? Have a source but it's the opposite side of road to field I bought. Or how have people done this in past
http://tswaine.ie/directional-drilling/
This is a young British frisiean type cow with a smaller bag and teats than average
I often find it is a bitch of a bully that either stands up on the stand and does it whilst bullying the cow for fun. Or some poor unfortunate has lied in her favourite spot 😕 🙄 🤣 I've seen blood drawn over that . I've enough spaces per cow and still get one every couple of years.... the cameras tell a tale of what is happening in the sheds
Local dairy farm down the road from us after losing 60 cows on a voluntary blood test, some kick in the teeth...
has he many cows left after that?? are the department looking to repopulate his herd entirely??
Milking 200 plus, he was losing single digit numbers to the skin test and the department wasn't letting him buy back in, option was given to blood-test and would be allowed to buy back in then, their still allowing him to buy back in, as agreed, seems crazy if theirs actually that level of infection in the herd
Any gully going under the road, run along the ditch till you find one.
because even the department knows that most of the cows that failed the blood test don't have TB. It's doing some culling around the country. I asked santa for snares, seems il have to buy myown
Don't Blame Santa. You were obviously a bold boy all year.
He didn't come to me either.
they’re a great job, for foxes of course, just make sure you drove a good length of angle iron or something to hold them
Biggest issue now is compensation will hardly cover replacement heifers given prices are sky-rocketing, I'd say it's nailed on they'll restrict herds indefinitely with bad outbreaks going forward with the only route been the factory,a nice cheap way to get cow numbers down and cost effective
blood testing early in any sort of big breakdown is still best way to try and get herd unrestricted ..it will pull early stage infections that skin won’t pick up ….downside is it will take false positives as well but it’s a gamble worth taking ….any herds with reactors pre housing would be mad not to ….stock housed over winter with infection still within herd will be higher risk of transmission
Do the Dept publish any stats on the genetics of the cows that go down?
I know some bulls are advertised as being less susceptible to TB but what about the bigger picture - is there any trend in the data to say, for example, that pedigree Holstein herds with 700kg cows go down less (or more) than JEx herds with 450kg cows?
Or is the likelihood of TB exactly the same across all herd types?
With all the data ICBF and the Dept have you’d imagine they could have this type of sideways look at it.
Too much of a sideways look at icbf figures is something that is frowned upon. ......
Theirs little to zero weighting put on it when ebi scores are given to a animal, the most prevelant sire of dairy stock the past 5 years and his sons now has a diabolical score for tb
But no one seems to give a dicky bird as his fertility and milk are all that matters
If external threats like badgers infected on farm aren't removed it's a pointless exercise, all it takes is one tmr mix with maize where the above has been in and your back to square one with another 20odd % of the herd down
