Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

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Shite …..it’s a balls especially now just before spring but you’ll get through it ….be proactive in getting reactors gone asap …heap of paperwork coming your way just pick your valuer ….put all your reactors into sales catalogue ,ebi report ,milk recording report from recent recording and have them ready to e mail to him …your 60 days to first retest dosnt kick in till reactors leave farm

My own vet wasn’t advising it any way. Would say I’d need bigger numbers

Okay for calf accommodation. Have a new Calving shed. Old shed will hold calves now. Will need to set out an existing calf shed better though. Fine for baby calves but not to rear calves for 12 weeks

there’s options now for calves and culls to sell to feedlots and some marts are running tb restriction sales which are returning decent prices ….you can buy in under permit too …..and nitrates won’t be an issue

I would blood test. We had only 1 positive on the blood and she had no lumps on the skin test

Pivotal and seville have shockingly bad tb resistance scores, given the amount of daughters they have plus ai sons on the ground it makes alot of sense

You'll never get to the root of it with the skin test. Your only kicking the can down the road.

Blood is meant to pick up infection earlier. He still had lesions in 1 skin reactor. I've had skin and blood reactors and no lesions. How soon after the 1st skin test did he blood??

Over 40% lesions on skin reactors qualifies for depopulation. A lesion doesn't develop overnight and in most cases would be the size of the top of a match so can easily be missed. Sign of chronic infection. Skin test detects after 42 days. Blood is sensitive after 2 weeks to exposure to tb hence more sensitive and less lesions. I think over 20% blood reactors with visible lesions is considered a chronic infection. Make sure to find out the lesion types aswell as their presence on the PM. This can show more as to how they picked it up

First time ever for us last year with tb and stock bulls used here.

The dept are **** up the badgers with tb vaccination or they're using higher strength vet reaction jabs that were never used before or both combined.

Livestock farmers lost the battle in this country when the dept filled their ranks with tillage farmers and the boards in johnstown castle showing dairy and beef sequestering carbon were not allowed be shown in the farmer's journal or farming independant the following week. And who did that only the farmers journal and Farming independant themselves. And these are supposed to be representing farmers. If little jimmy was in a wheelbarrow his picture would be in the journal. But this not allowed. From then on cows were made the enemy in Ireland. Unions are rolling with it because it upsets tillage farmers if they don't or they think they are going to be completely rid of tb altogether going with this new plan.

But at this moment in time it looks like a dirty stroke by gov to bring bovine numbers down to hit emissions targets. And everyone is happy bar the fools with no representation the herd owners.

Our one voice before, Aidan Brennan changed his tune when Siobhan walsh brought him to Monsanto's climate change soil health centre in the US. Before that he was savage. After that he was neutered. Whatever they had or did to him.

Commisserations too GtM. Some scourge.

The new rules from the action plan for herds over 80 cows is mandatory blooding of herd where over 5% of cows go down as reactors our 10 our more cows on a single test, you"ll escape having to blood the herd id say for the minute, where they all reactors our a few inconclusives that where upgraded as reactors...

Biggest issue now is your next and subsequent tests will be severe interpitation any bottom lumps 1mm bigger than top lump are automtaic reactors