Re: Organic milk


"David B" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jim Webster wrote:
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they cannot use dry cow antibiotics. Pretty well the sole aim of these
is
to
cut cell count

Just talking to the farm manager of a farm where a funded (by a well known
retailer ) organic trial is ongoing.

We use dry cow tubes he told me, because the vet says we should.

and if the cowman thinks that in his experience a cow needs in milk tubes
he
uses them.

The word - con - is not far from my lips

David B


it is a fine line, and as most vets put animal welfare a long way ahead of
ideology, it has to be said that your experience may be more common than the
SA would like to think


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Jim Webster.

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