dry cow tubes on sucklers?

tismesoitis · 26-08-2010 09:54PM #1

just wonderin does anyone dry cow tube their sucklers? we have had 3 cases os mastitis in the first 10 cows calved. they did'nt calve down with mastitis but developed it between a week and 3 weeks afterwards.they were all milky cows perhaps too much so.

whelan1 · 26-08-2010 09:57PM

do you use any fly prevention i assume you are talking about autumn calvers ?

tismesoitis · 26-08-2010 10:01PM

ye every 2 or 3 weeks prior to calving , they calving down fine but developing afterwards

dar31 · 26-08-2010 10:35PM

used to always dry cow tube the sucklers when we had them.
would never have considered not doing them, thought it was the norm.(usually a cheap one though)

whelan1 · 27-08-2010 06:18AM

tbh we never ever dry cow tubed our sucklers - we're not brave enough:D- but this seems to be a problem after calving

reilig · 27-08-2010 09:46AM

In recent years we have used tubes on all the autumn calvers only - just after weining (That was 6 weeks ago) . I think that they are more at risk of mastitis than the spring calvers.

LostCovey · 28-08-2010 12:09AM

whelan1 wrote: »

tbh we never ever dry cow tubed our sucklers - we're not brave enough:D- but this seems to be a problem after calving

no dry cow tubes....mastitis after calving is a problem.

Maybe there is a connection here?

LC

dry cow tubes on sucklers?

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