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Kaukauna WI | Burdick, I think the answer is different for everyone, but here's what we would do if we went the pasteurizer route: We would use high SCC milk that we used to be able to sell and get docked a little for. Starting March or April (I forget), we won't be able to do that anymore, as the milk truck won't pick up our milk if it is too high of a SCC. We would take that milk (first we'd have to get a reliable method to figure out on a daily or at least weekly basis who has a high cell count) and pasteurize it. In the past, we threw very little milk out. Just the cows on antibiotics and that was not much. We would have had to take saleable milk and feed the calves.
I don't know how others do it. But I have to imagine that they are taking saleable milk and pasteurizing it, too. So, that's why it's not free.
As far as your bedding goes, that sounds real skimpy. I don't bed the calves, but I think we go through much more bedding than that. | |
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