mackie88
VG86
Registered: 12-2011
Posts: 79
Karma: 1 (+1/-0)
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Re:
quote: PADairymen wrote:
Mackie88: Not sure it matters if it relates to human medicine for antibiotic resistance or not. Overuse of antibiotics will result in resistance for mastitis-causing pathogens. It isn't just a human issue. Plus dry cow therapy is pretty expensive, the use will most likely continue to decline for economic purposes, as well as public perception.
Agree on the animal resistance, I was pressing my milk buyer to find out what their perception of it was, to see if they were going to make selective therapy compulsary.
The extra money they spend on having a dedicated supplier group is so they can have hard data to go on when quoting in the press is what they say. If tommorow a study is released to show a link between over use of anti biotics in agriculture and human resistance they can hit back straight away with statements to turn negative PR into potentially postive eg. their suppliers use less than the national average amount of antibiotics.
Linking johnes and chrones in humans is one they are pretty nervy about, everyone has to Johnes test with milk recording samples. Again so if the link is made they can put an ad in the newspapers tommorow saying their milk is sourced from 100% johnes free cows.
--- Westerboard Holsteins
|
2/12/2015, 16:30
|
Link to this post
PM via Email
PM via Forum
|
PADairymen
Ex 97 2E
Registered: 12-2009
Posts: 1676
Karma: 21 (+23/-2)
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re:
The other problem is just because an antibiotic is used in food animal production and not human medicine NOW, doesn't mean it won't be used in human medicine eventually. So creating resistance still can have unforeseen consequences in the future. I know some are against the idea of limiting use of dry cow therapy... I'm just not sure we will have much of a choice. Studies have begun looking at the effects of dumping antibiotic milk into manure lagoons (manure storage), and how that effects microbes in the soil.
|
3/12/2015, 16:24
|
Link to this post
PM via Email
PM via Forum
|
OAKTOP ACRES
GP82
Registered: 11-2011
Location: MO USA
Posts: 28
Karma: 0 (+0/-0)
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Non-use of antibiotics at dry off?
I have been using Orb-seal only for several
years and have very few issues.However some cows calve with slightly high cell count but usually clear up soon.Keeping dry cows clean is a big help.FWIW
|
3/12/2015, 19:15
|
Link to this post
PM via Email
PM via Forum
|
MarkDay
Head Administrator
Registered: 06-2003
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 3653
Karma: 31 (+33/-2)
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Re:
quote: bazza20 wrote:
quote: MarkDay wrote:
We've been doing it for 18 months. Anything with no cases of mastitis that lactation and with the four previous months under 150 cell count.
Only using antibiotics on about 30% of dry cows if that and no problems at all.
Are you using teat seal on those without antibiotics.
Yes
--- Bickleygate holsteins
"I have not failed 1000 times, I have discovered a 1000 ways that do not work"-Thomas Edison
|
3/12/2015, 19:58
|
Link to this post
PM via Email
PM via Forum
|
Big Bird
Cowtalk Staff
Registered: 06-2003
Posts: 3421
Karma: 39 (+40/-1)
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Non-use of antibiotics at dry off?
I've been to one of the Arla workshops on selective dry cow therapy today, and it would appear that we didn't get the best advice when we were persuaded to try it by our vet a couple of years ago.
Criteria for suitable cows to use it on was too high, and there was a basic mistake in the application advice.
We'll give it another try on a more limited basis and see how we get on.
|
9/12/2015, 21:06
|
Link to this post
PM via Email
PM via Forum
|
bazza20
Ex 97 2E
Registered: 07-2009
Posts: 1983
Karma: 30 (+32/-2)
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Non-use of antibiotics at dry off?
quote: Big Bird wrote:
I've been to one of the Arla workshops on selective dry cow therapy today, and it would appear that we didn't get the best advice when we were persuaded to try it by our vet a couple of years ago.
Criteria for suitable cows to use it on was too high, and there was a basic mistake in the application advice.
We'll give it another try on a more limited basis and see how we get on.
What was your criteria initially and what are the recommendations now.
|
10/12/2015, 11:02
|
Link to this post
PM via Email
PM via Forum
|
Big Bird
Cowtalk Staff
Registered: 06-2003
Posts: 3421
Karma: 39 (+40/-1)
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Non-use of antibiotics at dry off?
quote: bazza20 wrote:
quote: Big Bird wrote:
I've been to one of the Arla workshops on selective dry cow therapy today, and it would appear that we didn't get the best advice when we were persuaded to try it by our vet a couple of years ago.
Criteria for suitable cows to use it on was too high, and there was a basic mistake in the application advice.
We'll give it another try on a more limited basis and see how we get on.
What was your criteria initially and what are the recommendations now.
We were originally told anything with cell counts for the lactation all below 200 & no case of clinical mastitis. Advice yesterday was to start at 100 cell count limit and then increase that if things work OK.
I know it sounds a bit lame today, but we weren't initially told about pinching the top of the teat to stop it just going up into the udder, only not to massage it up as we would antibiotic. (I had worked that mistake out for myself long before yesterday's meeting)
|
10/12/2015, 15:29
|
Link to this post
PM via Email
PM via Forum
|
mckeague
Ex 97 2E
Registered: 06-2003
Posts: 1628
Karma: 14 (+14/-0)
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re:
The one we had that got the bad E.coli infection after getting the teat seal only had an average SCC of 17!!!
yes that is 1 and 7
expensive selective therapy if you ask me
--- Reproduction drives production
|
10/12/2015, 23:23
|
Link to this post
PM via Email
PM via Forum
|
errolston
Ex 97 2E
Registered: 07-2003
Posts: 2041
Karma: 32 (+33/-1)
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Non-use of antibiotics at dry off?
My vet says that there is a school of thought that you can have an scc that is too low. The thinking goes that these cows don't have enough "good bugs" to protect themselves.
|
11/12/2015, 10:54
|
Link to this post
PM via Email
PM via Forum
|
Big Bird
Cowtalk Staff
Registered: 06-2003
Posts: 3421
Karma: 39 (+40/-1)
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Re:
quote: mckeague wrote:
The one we had that got the bad E.coli infection after getting the teat seal only had an average SCC of 17!!!
yes that is 1 and 7
expensive selective therapy if you ask me
From some of the info at the meeting I'd say that as an industry if we don't take steps to cut blanket dry cow therapy the regulators will do it for us.
|
11/12/2015, 11:42
|
Link to this post
PM via Email
PM via Forum
|