Parlour size for one-man set-up 140 cows
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Headless chicken
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prehaps you have your system nailed down better than the one I milked with. It was a total faff and meant you ended up just stopping washing constantly to go mess with things. There is also a safety aspect to consider with chemicals. Lots to be said for staying well away from parlour chemicals where possible.
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greatly improved hygiene
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- Pembrokeshire
How?
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- Pembrokeshire
How?
Headless chicken
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Only ever got the one cows bacteria
frederick
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Hygiene of what. The teats dirty the sh!t is sucked off with the milk. All it's there for is to stop any bacteria from the previous cows milk getting on the next cows teat. It makes no difference to the cleanliness of the actual milk.
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Every cow has its own culture of bacteria both inside and outside the udder good and bad, cluster flush removes it from the claw. Then the following in milked in a clean environment.
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yes it does
lazy farmer
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20 40.
with no extras.
just dry wipe your cows and the mastitis stays away.
Auto wash from talking with friends uses more chemical and electricity yay !
Kiss
with no extras.
just dry wipe your cows and the mastitis stays away.
Auto wash from talking with friends uses more chemical and electricity yay !
Kiss
Holsteinfriesian90
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Surly it’s down to how much the cows are averaging as well not just parlour size.
lazy farmer
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Yeap the more the milk the bigger the parlour.
mine give bugger all !
How? It uses exactly how much electricity and chemicals you tell it to!
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Lazy loves KISS but also mixes tmr
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Ripped our cluster flush out as it was keeping bactos high
As for mastitis ,if you use your scc from milk recording and cull your infected cows cluster flush then becomes obsolete
Cluster flush is a mask for bad mastitis practices
As for mastitis ,if you use your scc from milk recording and cull your infected cows cluster flush then becomes obsolete
Cluster flush is a mask for bad mastitis practices
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Yes it reflects the environment the cows are housed in. If it didn't work for you that's down to maintenance.
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- Pembrokeshire
So your cows are housed in an environment where there constantly picking up mastitis .
There was a lot of maintenance , nearly every day and the cost was going up all the time
Barmyfarmer
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Vaccar cluster flush here, donkeys years old, cheap insurance for us. Obliterated our mastitis issues and paid for itself in no time at all.
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I have greatly reduced the rate of infection,had a staph outbreak which is cow to cow infection. If you don't have mastitis ,cells or a bacto problem then of course cluster flush redundant. Earlier you mentioned culling high cell count cows i'd rather not have any.