Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

I am currently restricted and know exactly what I am talking about my vet is testing and reading properly but I can't say that about others

The vet just goes by what he sees and measures. If it’s a standard test they pass if severe they fail. Some herds react differently with avian TB which doesn’t mean they have TB.

Agreed everyone I ever heard mention that had an inconclusive cow ended up with them being a reactor eventually. There's no more inconclusive around here the last ten years at least

Dont zero graze myself ,but cant understand why it is seen as a cause for tb as compared to silage bales or pit

Lad says cows can't pick the best bits compared to grazing, lad was saying to me. Secondly more grass from far away been consumed by the cow

Many reasons why tb has got worse in the last couple of years but a lot of it is occurring inside the farm gate and can be reduced if many farmers changed things a little you would reduce your risk big time

Feeding calves in fields turn the troughs upside-down when calves have eat

Clean out water troughs regularly

Reduce overcrowding in sheds in winter

Provide enough grass to cows and calves/yearlings all summer if you can't do that their is a cattle mart in every town in Ireland to solve the problem I am all the time looking at hungry cattle which in turn will lick the ditches and pick up every bug and these hungry animals have low immune systems and for some strange reason these herds keep going down with tb

Their are many other things like infected wildlife, dept not overly interested in solving the problem vets making a living out of it, possibly zero grazing,some farmers in denial about the fact that their is an infection in their herd and just seem to have 1 aim which is to get a clear test and bury their heads in the sand again and go back doing the same as they always did

Just catching up on pervious posts in relation to building work without planning. Is this a ticking time bomb? with the ever increasing storage capacity requirements are ppl taking the risk to avoid objectors.

Even ppl who are actively engaged by the dairy industry and endorsed to promote our green sustainable image; are flaunting the rules with zero planning.

Comical, considering said person has aspirations to progress in the IFA.

On slurry and storage. I heard someone on podcast say a separate tank will be needed for digestate returned from an AD plant and that tank would have to be covered but not by slats. The separate tank made sense but not the covered bit as the gas would already be gone from the spent digestate.

Moved away from these targets to shorter rotations here and a lower farm cover aswell.

But we are always finished grazing here by the 1st week of November so never make much sense for us to have a huge amount of grass on the farm by the 1st of October