Forum: Milk Quality

Wondering what dip is most popular. Is iodine on its way out? Just wondering what other farms use.

Does anybody use cmt to find and treat high SCC cows?? Sending tests to the dairy is too expensive and a gigantic hassle. I thought I might try using...

Can somebody give me the basic breakdown on all the milk quality numbers and abbreviations as far as what they mean and what's good, bad and normal?

With the popularity of swing parlors, I have a question about what type of inflations are used in these systems? with double 30-50s, it takes a long...

Are there different methods for calculating butter fat? How standardized or consistent is the process of testingt butterfat? I switched milk...

For that matter, cloth towels or paper. Notice it seems alot of dairies seem to be using the gloves and paper towels route for supposedly lowering...

The dairy where I milk runs 130 cows through a double 5 herringbone with no crowd gate and a full age range of cows. The average SCC count for 2008...

What is it?, what causes it? and how does someone lower the numbers?

What's the life expectancy? How often do you replace them?

Was wandering how many of you process/pack and sell their milk?

I'm the plant sanitarian for a small dairy,we are trying to cut down on corrective actions based on the flavor analysis of our milk(sour milk).We...

Anybody here still sell grade B milk? Just got a visit from the fieldman saying AMPI won't be excepting Grade B milk anymore, except from the...

We recently did a whole herd culture. Found 9 cows, mostly first calf heifers, that came back as having Staph. Can anyone tell me the leading...

Dear forum-participants Everybody knows the unpleasant feeling of taking a sip of spoiled milk. The sour taste spreading in the mouth and the...

How many farmers burn hair off udders? What do you think about it?

What can anyone tell me about this cold plate bacteria? I have been off the regular truck lately because of high PI counts. I have done what it...

This week has been busy trying to get anything done and finish tidying up for the federal survey. The first of the week no one passed and we were on...

A couple cows that have Staph Aureus. The obvious thing is to cull them out, however both cows have been recently preg checked, both are bred. One...

anyboby out there having a lot of problems with strep and staph species infections? if you found a way to beat it would gladly listen to advice....

I see alot of talk about milk cultures on here. It is easy to build your own incubator out of an igloo cooler, light bulb, and thermostat. The...