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Post by toughguy on Mar 10, 2012 18:42:47 GMT -5
If you were getting conflicting count #'s with your processor how would you try to get it more accurate?
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Post by jrtheoriginal on Mar 11, 2012 2:39:10 GMT -5
How are you gettin different counts? Aren't they all run from one plant?
I wold check if there is a State Lab that could give you a third party test.
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Post by cousinit on Mar 11, 2012 15:23:00 GMT -5
We demo-ed a Delaval machine to make sure our milk would be ok. Delaval machine read 411 and plant said 305 on same milk, same day. We ran a few other samples, too, and they were off at least 15%.
We could not get any to be close than 15% variance. There is also a PortaChek strip you can buy. It costs about $1.50 each.
To stay legal, we have just been throwing out some teats on our worst cows. We can get it to 300 that way. Otherwise we've been running mid-high 3's. We'd ship our worst cows, but they give at least 80#, every one of them. Once the plant takes the "state" sample, we just throw everything in again till next month. It's pretty stupid if you ask me.
Delaval guy said in Europe, the guys there pay $75 a year and the officials look the other way.
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Post by johnwayne360 on Mar 11, 2012 16:15:22 GMT -5
Do you do DHIA? You could send a tank sample in as a cow sample and check the results.
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Post by toughguy on Mar 11, 2012 17:32:32 GMT -5
Test officially DHIA and that is where we came up with off #'s on the day's tested to the ones at the plant. So we even sent samples to the plant from our tank under a cow sample# to find the trucker's tank sample way different in count. So I was just curious how if any had this issue also and how to deal with it.
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