Robotic milking

pappuller · Apr 13, 2021

What are people using through their brushes/pre cleaning cups ? We have run peracetic since day 1 but am hearing of people using chlorine dioxide, iodine, lactic acid and even foamers. I just wondered how people found they compared.

Sid · Apr 13, 2021

pappuller said:
What are people using through their brushes/pre cleaning cups ? We have run peracetic since day 1 but am hearing of people using chlorine dioxide, iodine, lactic acid and even foamers. I just wondered how people found they compared.

Warm Water

Scholsey · Apr 13, 2021

Kenopure

Gerbert · Apr 13, 2021

Oh the joys of running a robot without brushes

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farmerdoddy · Apr 18, 2021

AL-TW35 said:
Hi all,
I‘m looking for a bit of advice.
We installed 2 Lely A5‘s on a grazing system last July. Since than our SCC kept going up, at this stage to completely being unsustainable. In the old parlour we always cluster dipped with peracetic acid. We took liner swaps in November and saw there was bacteria present. We bought the optional steam sanitiser pura steam and after a long wait finally got them installed in February. Unfortunately to our disappointment nothing changed. We looked at everything and when we swapped the liners again they came back positive for Staph aureus and other bacteria. We also swapped the brushes which are sanitised with peracetic acid and they were fine. Does anybody have similar experience or any advice? Is there any way of using peracetic acid to flush the liners? Many thanks.

We spent years struggling with SCC testing with vets and culturing always coming to different conclusions. Our average scc was running around 180 struggling to keep below 200. We changed brush once a week and have puras.
A certain FMS had turned on variable pulsation and vacuum telling us it was perfect for us. We had high % of teat end damage and 45% herd biomodal milking with cows not wanting to visit. 2 months ago we turned this off and changed to deosan activate teat dip. Our scc is now 130 consistently, visits have gone up and no mastitis since.

Spear · Apr 18, 2021

Variable pulsation is never good for the cow, it does in some cases speed up milking times

Milkcow365 · Apr 27, 2021

Can you link lely robots with uniform Agri?

Chippy · Apr 27, 2021

Thomas-milmain said:
Can you link lely robots with uniform Agri?

Yes mine has been for 9 years

pappuller · May 1, 2021

Anyone looked at or installed a renewable energy setup coupled with battery storage to run their robots/farm ?

Scholsey · May 1, 2021

pappuller said:
Anyone looked at or installed a renewable energy setup coupled with battery storage to run their robots/farm ?

Solar panels and big enough water heaters/tanks so only need to run heaters during the day in the summer and night tariff in the winter would be the most efficient form of energy storage available at the mo?

funny farm · May 1, 2021

pappuller said:
Anyone looked at or installed a renewable energy setup coupled with battery storage to run their robots/farm ?

Got to be a viable option at some time but is battery storage commercially available at a realistic price and with a long enough lifespan?

pappuller · May 1, 2021

funny farm said:
Got to be a viable option at some time but is battery storage commercially available at a realistic price and with a long enough lifespan?

Our leccy bill is getting a little scarey

upnortheast · May 2, 2021

pappuller said:
Anyone looked at or installed a renewable energy setup coupled with battery storage to run their robots/farm ?

Put this in the renewables section. Someone like @Exfarmer or @chickens and wheat might have some answers

Ball acre · May 2, 2021

Scholsey said:
Solar panels and big enough water heaters/tanks so only need to run heaters during the day in the summer and night tariff in the winter would be the most efficient form of energy storage available at the mo?

There's other options for storing energy. Solar powered ice bank? Bore hole tank filled by day(at highest point on farm)?

Sid · May 6, 2021

Twisted liner this morning , that's a new one on me!

Chips · May 6, 2021

1st time it's come to this in 12 years, 12 hr

breakdown but all sorted now thankfully

yin ewe · May 7, 2021

Longest we've had is about 10 hours, took 2 days to catch up properly and had lots of cows to fetch as they were knocked out of their routine and stopped visiting.

Milkcow365 · May 7, 2021

Chips said:
1st time it's come to this in 12 years, 12 hrView attachment 959434 breakdown but all sorted now thankfully

Two young lads there in need of a parlour

pappuller · May 7, 2021

Thomas-milmain said:
Two young lads there in need of a parlour

Living life lely

Chips · May 7, 2021

Thomas-milmain said:
Two young lads there in need of a parlour

My eldest boy loved it , all he wants in the world is a parlour

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