28/30 point rotary parlours

Dead Rabbits

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I see nothing wrong with the rotary in the attached video -
I would also like to include feeding and maybe the bar or strap that lets the do a 2nd round
If cost is no issue or you are really looking to reduce amount of walking it’s fine. But it’s
Trust me, if you want to feed on the platform, good luck with a 28 to 30 unit. Our cows push constantly to get on a 50 unit with a 13sec bale rotation. To the point that the 2nd cow behind the one waiting to get on pushes the one in front into the one that has already got on quite regularly. It's a pita when it happens. Be worse on a platform going super slow.
why run so slow? Decent amount of fighting with no feed as well
 

Tullyvernon

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Ulster
Simple. Any quicker and every cow would be going around twice. If they give plenty of milk they need time to be finished. It's bad enough on a 50. I'd hate to think how slow you would have to run a 28.
I believe that 30 bail in the video is running 8 minute rotations? Is that about 16 seconds per bail? plenty of time for a bit of teat prep, not much slower than you in your 50?
 

Tullyvernon

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Ulster
8 minutes isn't much time for high producing cows to milk out though. We aim for about a 10 minute rotation (roughly).
On a herd with anyway decent milking speed that should be very achievable for a high percentage of cows on 2x and on 3x even more so?

With your 10 minute rotations, what percentage of cows would stay on for a second round? roughly what sort of yield as well?
 

Tullyvernon

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Ulster
We calve 365 days a year. So there's a vast mix of lactation stages. Probably 5 to 10% go round twice. Have had a few do over 100ltrs per day from time to time. Frequently get best ones over 60.
We feed to production on the platform as well. So high producing cows need more time to eat what is in front of them.

That is a good point about the eating time, especially if calving all year round in one group.

It would be less of an issue in a seasonal calving herd or if grouped as you can feed a higher rate of concentrate at the feed fence.
 

cows sh#t me to tears

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We find its better in the bail for individual feeding to production as it goes exactly to the right cow. We also have multiple feed heads , and top producers get an extra kg of cracked lupins above their grain mix.

All cows were fed same amount in bail till we got the new ID system and went to individual feeding. It's made a huge impact on overall cow yield.
 

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