How We Dry Off Our Cows & Why It Works: Proven Process & Results

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FarmTheory

Күн бұрын

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@PVAglue-fi4kc 2 ай бұрын

When Calvin doesn't want to do a job, it's called a "Calvin deKlein".

@FarmTheoryNI 2 ай бұрын

🤣🤣

@willholliday3537 2 ай бұрын

We went from blanket to selective a while back because of arla. No issues at all. Good cure rates, and less mastitis overall for it.

@rhysdougan7618 2 ай бұрын

Be nicer to your oul fella Andrew, every father son relationship is the same, easy to get frustrated with each other, especially working together! Love the videos👍🏻

@SimonStevensonJD6810 2 ай бұрын

Don’t want to jinx myself here but… we’ve been doing dry cow therapy now for a good few years here, it has went really well. I just try to have the teat ends immaculately clean at drying, allow cows to stand on a clean yard for 45 mins after drying and I be very cautious with what gets sealer only.

@geraldbeard856 2 ай бұрын

we stopped milking in 2017 and we were selling our milk to Arla and they were pushing hard the selective dry cow therapy thing........i didn't like the idea for similar reasons to what you talked about......we used cepravin antibiotic tubes on all our cows up till then but never used a teat sealant......not many farmers did back then.One thought i had about you not having enough tubes and you said i'll put halve a tube up each teat is if one quarter has a bit of mastitis your running the risk of carrying the infection from one quarter to another. also i noticed at least one of the cows had a dirty tail if you were being really thorough you should of trimmed there tails first.......when the cow walks away her dirty tail is going to swing against her teats.. also when you were cleaning the cows teats at the beginning you used the same towel for several cows or maybe even all the cow's .......i think you should use a seperate clean towel for each cow......... i think i'd make a good dairy inspector don't you😃😃..

@FarmTheoryNI 2 ай бұрын

Agree with everything you said!

@EarlePriest 2 ай бұрын

Great video answered a lot of questions and explained well many thanks.

@tonymckeage1028 2 ай бұрын

Great Video, The detail is amazing, thanks for sharing

@FarmTheoryNI 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@peterdavidson5289 2 ай бұрын

How long do you keep your cows dry?and why do you use 30 day tubes?mine are dry 60 days so use long term dry cow tubes(56 days)

@Bullscows7 2 ай бұрын

I have a solid question to ask you! In today's day and age do you think there is still a possibility that I can start my own dairy farm? Also great video you are living my dream man! ❤

@Ai-lm9pb 2 ай бұрын

For high cell count cows at drying off we would give them a much longer dry period. We normally dry cows off for 70 days. At drying off we inject the cow with a full bottle of Tylan and double tube her with the longer acting Cepravin tube. Sometimes, if we really want to save a chronic cow, we would stick a lactating cow tube in her as well.

@FarmTheoryNI 2 ай бұрын

I need to start this!

@patrickbuckley7832 2 ай бұрын

If you red tractor auditor is anything like a board bia auditor you're going to have to spin him a different story 😉d@@FarmTheoryNI

@Arg0r 2 ай бұрын

Nice Video is there a Farm tour video?

@FarmTheoryNI 2 ай бұрын

I can do that!

@Arg0r 2 ай бұрын

@@FarmTheoryNI I would love that!

@Jim-gg8se 2 ай бұрын

I dont agree about selective dry cow therapy. If the cow hasn't had mastitis or a high cell count leave any bacteria in the mammary system, as they are either doing no harm or doing some good I've been doing it for years now and my cell counts are good. Apart from that another great video.

@FarmTheoryNI 2 ай бұрын

Thanks you! Each to their own, if sdct works for you it's definitely an advantage!

@tinnie1835 2 ай бұрын

If she had Less than 200k cells over last 4 months i dry her with ubroseal, if she had over 200k in past 2 months i use antibiotic tiubes, if she had mastitis in her lactation antibiotic too. How fast do you dry them off. Like today i milk tem 2x a day and then immedealy dry off or 1 week of milking 1x a day and then dry off. And do you cut them off feed in that time and 3 days after dry off.

@dekdek551 2 ай бұрын

I just love your share ❤️.

@martinoneill1644 2 ай бұрын

I’d suggest have tail trimmed a few weeks beforehand.

@FarmTheoryNI 2 ай бұрын

Cows are grazing so didn't want to upset them, when they are housed it's easy to slip a batch out or do them in the head locks

@macfarms 2 ай бұрын

we do it pretty much the same way. Usually only one cow at a time tho haha

@willyfindlay4398 2 ай бұрын

Sorry new to your Channel, how many brothers do you have ? I see your farm needs the Internet.😊

@jozeksodec190 2 ай бұрын

How do you stop the cows from milking alto? We sometimes give them just hay and a cow could milk alot, parents tried driing them off while stil having alot of milk and there were some problems, we drie them off one and a half month before clawing

@FarmTheoryNI 2 ай бұрын

Grazing cows in rain helps. 😅 If needed I cut the meal back

@Ai-lm9pb 2 ай бұрын

Totally agree on the selective dry cow therapy. We tried for a couple of years and we had cases of dry felon that we never had before or since.

@Rob-zt1wt 2 ай бұрын

Haven't used a single dry cow tube in 6 years. No issue with cell counts

@FarmTheoryNI 2 ай бұрын

Happy days!

@damienmckenna6954 2 ай бұрын

Please excuse my ignorance, but what's the purpose of the antibiotics?

@JamesOBrien2253 2 ай бұрын

Nothing of there udder is healthy it was old way of doing it blanket treating to prevent mastitis but with milk recording data now should only be done on cows with infections that year

@FarmTheoryNI 2 ай бұрын

Long acting protection against an infection in the udder when the cow is dry. If the cow gets an infection it's very very bad.

@damienmckenna6954 2 ай бұрын

@@FarmTheoryNI Do you think giving them antibiotics like this, when they don't have an active infection the antibiotics are needed for, could be related to the problem of some cows developing problems with their cell counts?

@seantraynor7925 2 ай бұрын

Have you ever singed the hairs on the udders of the cows? Considering doing ours as some are hairy. Any draw backs in doing so?

@FarmTheoryNI 2 ай бұрын

I havnt, I'm sure it would work fine, it's just an extra job.

@stephenhayes487 2 ай бұрын

Are you not worried about the risk of being heavily reliant on internet. I know it’s a normal thing for everyone to have but someone plugging out a plug took down your whole system. Even the lights as well? I get why you do, easier, automated, and time saved but relying on the 1 system seems like a recipe for disaster at some stage

@barrett2288 2 ай бұрын

Not using selective dry cow therapy is terrible from an antibiotic resistance point of view. You’re also using cephalosporins which are one of the most important and effective antibiotics in humans. Using them as a blanket, routine treatment across all your herd is pretty much the worst thing you can do.

@FarmTheoryNI 2 ай бұрын

I don't know enough about the topic to disagree, I do have the experience of losing a cow because of an infection between testing and treating and from an economic perspective this way makes sense. would I not see resistance in my data?

@andrewbaird3431 2 ай бұрын

@@FarmTheoryNIdoes your 70% cure rate not show resistance in your data? 🤔 A few fundamental errors in your drying off protocol (which you know and admit to🤯)which will ultimately result in sdct not working for you. And how can you ask anyone to milk cows with tails like that💩🫣

@philiptyndall4968 2 ай бұрын

Such bs imo. It’s such a small amount of antibiotics it can’t cause resistance imo. The real cause of antibiotic resistance is ppl not finishing off courses of prescription antibiotics.

@Gary-bg6mc 2 ай бұрын

Cows definitely deserve 50 days dry not a good way to run cows close like that before calving they simply won’t reach milk yields next lactation

@FarmTheoryNI 2 ай бұрын

The graph above the cured list shows the distribution. Almost all are over 60

@gerryoconnor8751 2 ай бұрын

I clip cows tails every month, cell count 60,000.

@samfisher8056 2 ай бұрын

So you don’t lift grass on Sundays because your some what religious, but that’s the way you talk to your dad?

@GeorgeWhite-w6k 2 ай бұрын

Those tails are an absolute state! Your poor milkers must get covered! Also not good for cell counts and bacto scans teats constantly getting covered in muck from those dirty tails!