You sent in samples of your colostrum or you set up your own colostrum and milk testing lab at your farm. You are looking at the results and find out they are higher than Snoop Dog, now what?

Colostrum AND their environment need to be clean, sQueaky clean!

Quality is a very in-depth process with many layers and factors, but we are going to help you make it easier for you AND your employees to make critical decisions on colostrum quality quickly and effectively.

The four Q’s are a great foundation for every calf program and maternity program. Focusing on only two or three of the four Q’s is leaving out something vital to calf health and performance no matter which ones you pick.

If you are tired of constantly dumping water and cleaning out your pasteurizer, or worried about bacteria transfer, consider testing out this method that has saved us time, energy, and water!

Many dairies will cool their colostrum outdoors in the winter. It makes perfect sense, you don’t have to warm up the freezer, you don’t have to take up space, the bags can dry out from being in the pasteurizer.

Today, I am going to go through how to check the blood for pass/fail, and what to do if you are getting multiple failures of passive transfers.