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Tom & Dale Whalley,
Tabley Hill Dairy Farm,
Tabley, Cheshire
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Tom and Dale installed the Airwash system in September 2007 and have found the system to be economical, labour saving and more importantly, a major safeguard against cross contamination of mastitis bacteria.
They have seen a reduction in cell count and cases of mastitis reduced by 25% this in conjunction with a 20% reduction of antibiotic tubes required.
Tom and Dale milk 235 cows two times per day totalling over 170,000 milkings, on evaluating his records since the installation of Airwash he found they had only 68 cases of mastitis recorded , many of which were repeat and environmental cases even so this averages just over 1 case per week. Tom stated “the Airwash system has virtually, if not totally eradicated cross contamination during milking”.
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K & M Ede & Son
Lower Tean Leys, Leigh
Stoke On Trent
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Milking 150 cows, twice per day using a 16:16 herringbone parlour with a milk yield of 7,500ltr.
“Prior to October 2007 , we had a SCC of 280 plus & 8-10 clinical cases of mastitis on going. Testing showed that the problem was cross infection causing organisms putting us into a penalty cost of £2,000 per month. Having tried cluster dipping manually, we noticed a small improvement.. We then decided to install a Greenoak Airwash system which was installed in October ’07.
Within a period of 2 months a dramatic reduction of cross contamination organisms was achieved & our SCC reduced to 180. In October ’08 our farm had an electrical problem which caused the airwash to be inactive. During this short 10 day period without the airwash system, our SCC increased to 285. After the airwash system was reconnected within a 10 day period, our SCC reduced to 190. This proved to us that the airwash system is an effective way to combat cross infection organisms. Our instances of clinical cases are now only a few & show a dramatic reduction of cross contamination. We are pleased to have installed such an effective product.”
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