Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Which one of these faults did you get locked up on? The department are a joke. They can leave you looking at reactors for a month after a failed test but can send you out a half inch of paper work to look at within 2 of their working days. Where only keeping people in employment. This dumping milk is another joke. Do the Co op’s do a milk recall when you get the results of the tb blood result's back? Nothing but phone calls and letters you get afterwards. When you get out the calculator the money you get back for reactors is a slap on the face.

I agree

I put a good bit of work in to it here and can definitely see the benefits of it after this year. They didn’t get out as much in the spring and it really hampered milk production. Now I probably should have more better quality silage on hand but it still shows the benefit of spring grass if the weather is favourable

Factory lesion showed up on purchased in animal I never had a reactor before dept tell me that since that animal was purchased by me the other herd had a big no of reactors in comrade animals in that herd these things happen nothing I can do about it but I've had a lot of hassle with having to do 4 month test with a couple of years because of a number of dairy herds near me that constantly go down with tb very obvious animal welfare issues and yet they do nothing to improve their chances of not going down with tb again and by some posters reactions here it's obvious we're all in for a lot more tb going forward I spoke to a lad lately that had the bug in his herd he blamed just about everyone he could think of as to why his animals had tb from the meat factory,the vets, neighbours, contractors brought it in their machinery, wildlife, ai company etc and at the same time was boasting about the live valuation he got, milk compensation he got etc and was now regretting that more cows didn't go as he had lots of heifers coming in but I'll probably be criticised for telling the truth

WWe All should have nearly everything better no matter what setups we have but once you're trying and improving each year (apart from this year. This year can go fook itself). Things will come together eventually..... or at least that's what I'm banking on.... 35 years later 😄😁

It's called monthly income supplement for dairy herds which obviously he called milk compensation also for winter months you can get fodder compensation please have your facts correct

I’m sure this hypothetical figure was delighted with the €55 per cow a month they got, seems like a no brainer to want more cows to go down. Good God.

French lady lost all her herd to TB a few months back. Seems the system here is to slaughter absolutely everything once there’s an outbreak.
Didn’t get a penny in compensation anyways.
Had a go fund me thingy to get restocked. Probably got plenty money too because she’s a very good looking lady.

Hope they are going to be ok ,looks as if they got special treatment as regards the amount of bloods done.Some vets will tell you in a case like that until all that cohort of animals are gone you will have sleepers left behind.be interesting does this intensive testing regime work if it doesnt vaccination is the only sensible conclusion

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/relief-at-salesian-college-after-first-clear-tb-test-in-2-years/

It's not a great advert for blood testing. A lot of cows gone. No cause found. Its treating the symptoms not the cause. Not much help to the lads who will have reactors for the first time this week.

But you are not, if an infected badger or deer is shhiting and pissing around your yard and fields. I have seen great herds whittle away down to half around here.

"You will loose false positives but". That's a big negative to the lad with 50 cows.

It says they had six blood tests in the two years.
I don’t see how it’s any better than the skin test at picking out infected animals.