Parlour Size
- Thread starter hel123
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More to life
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- Somerset
Been discussed before but oad is more difficult to master than twice you'd be running before you can walk.
multi power
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- pembrokeshire
In that case put in a little bit bigger parlour so you don't spend too long milking
Sylution
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- Carmarthenshire
We went from 5/10 to 14/28 here and one can milk 84 to 98 cows/ hour. Depends on the amount of sh!t. (Don't know about others, but ours are bad at this time of year, lush grass shooting out). Also what i have noticed is washing down takes time compared to our old 5/10.And you really speed up milking by having someone to help just finishing off and getting cows out to graze whilst one is washing. Can make 45 mins differance for doing not much really!!
Put in the biggest parlour you can afford, just don't get any extras. Can always add them in later.
why not 20/40 in a 25/50 stallwork? Can always add units on later. I would aim for an absolute max of 1.5 hours from cows in the yard to last one leaving.
1.5 hours. Really. Oops should have had a 36/72
Dead Rabbits
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- 'Merica
I am with Beef farmer, care to share some numbers? Would be much more educational for all, rather than talking gear.
I for one am very interested in how you guys over there afford to have new parlors installed. Over here you better be building it yourself and buy it used for anything sub 400 cows.