I just want to let people know how happy we are with our milk quality.
One day Duane gave me a magazine article to read. It was about 5 producers who regularly keep the SCC below 50,000. That is basically the cow wellness measurement in their milk. Of course he was shocked when I bought the CMT (California mastitis test) and the micro fiber wipes the following week. I tell him all the time, why read about it if you aren't going to do it? I printed and laminated a milk procedure for all of us milking our cows to follow. Low and behold, our milk started getting better.
Right now we are producing milk as good as I think it can get. Our SCC is down to a month average of 70,000. Our bacteria is 1,000, and our P.I. is at 2,000.
Things we did that I think matter:
implementing the milk house routine,
repairing the free stall barn,
keeping lots of clean sand in the stalls when the girls aren't on pasture,
and hiring a good hoof trimmer that comes on a regular basis.
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