When cows freshen on your dairy, where do you milk them? That’s the question Charlene McLauchlan, technical services veterinarian with Monsanto Dairy Business, poses to producers.
If producers answer that they provide separate facilities for the fresh cows, the question then becomes, “How old is that equipment?”
Often times, when a dairy producer builds a new parlor, he will use the old equipment to create a separate milking facility for fresh and sick cows. However, he may be setting up the fresh cows for problems unless the equipment is kept in top working condition, with regular servicing.
If you’re seeing a lot of fresh cows develop mastitis after freshening, check out the milking equipment and the calving pen environment.
Protect fresh cow health
More videos
Related Articles
No matching related articles at this time.
Sponsored Links
- Vilsack: Taking time to remember the fallen
- Ag markets diverge just before the long holiday weekend
- Study suggests dairy herd water quality linked to milk production
- Wis. lawmakers question challenges to large wells
- Traders evening up positions ahead of the weekend Friday
- Bio-Vet and Keller break ground on new facility
- Seven jobs more dangerous than farming
- White House urges Senate to cut crop insurance in farm bill
- Class III futures close out quietly last week
- 4 rules for growing a business or industry
- Drop in U.S. underground water levels has accelerated
- Ongoing wave of Calif. metal theft prompts further legislation
Comments (0) Leave a comment