20 : 40 Milking Parlour

Benr

Member
Location
North Devon
What parlour would you recommend for 9000L autumn block calving. Thinking of 20 : 40 or 24 : 48 with ACR's and milk meters, with manual segregation and flat rate pig feeders.
Full routine with one man 200 cows. Wanting to milk in excess of 100 cows an hour.
Looked at John Hyson stall work with Waikato plant with SCR ACR's and milk meters from Dairy Farm Services.
Also considering Fullwood and GEA.
 
sounds good basically what we have without the meters or acrs I manage 6 rows an hour at peak but we are only 6000 litres.
our kit is delaval no real issues with it 10 yrs on. we went with them because at the time the dealership was close by and reliable. not so close now but still reliable.
 

Benr

Member
Location
North Devon
Currently milk 170 through a 16:16 Fullwood. Cows averaging 31L at the moment, foam wipe apply then spray. Takes 4 hours morning and 3.5 in the afternoon including wash down. We max out at 64 cows an hour and looking to improve lifestyle with going up to 200 cows. Are we likely to as big a gain as we are thinking?
 

Rossymons

Member
Location
Cornwall
When you say foam wipe do you mean Genus Valiant wipes or foam then wipe?

Sounds like you could save a bit of time by changing milking routine. Single wet wipe with ADF installed means you pass cows twice rather than 4 times you do now. Might only be seconds per cow but over 170/cows that could be a lot seconds.
 

WillM

Member
Location
Indonesia
I would say that is too longer for one man.
I found a 30-15 long enough for one person ( split in half for optimum routine) I was getting through 100cows/hr with full routine; strip, dip, whips, apply and ADF.
 
What parlour would you recommend for 9000L autumn block calving. Thinking of 20 : 40 or 24 : 48 with ACR's and milk meters, with manual segregation and flat rate pig feeders.
Full routine with one man 200 cows. Wanting to milk in excess of 100 cows an hour.
Looked at John Hyson stall work with Waikato plant with SCR ACR's and milk meters from Dairy Farm Services.
Also considering Fullwood and GEA.
Go with the Waikato plant but with the Read slide pulsators.:D
 
Location
West Wales
I've got a 16:32. I tried pre spray for 4 days because of high bactos and cells. The cows hated it, I hated it. There was sh!t everywhere I couldn't keep up.

We've got manual shedding as in write the cow position down on my hand run out the front and stand on a gate. I can just about get 4 sides through before I end up with 2 sides ready at the same time.
 

More to life

Member
Location
Somerset
At your yields you need good pulsation and milkmeters I wouldn't buy Irish or NZ kit it's not made for the job. Swing overs aren't the best at high yields cluster flooding can be a problem que everyone telling me that's not true.
 
Currently milk 170 through a 16:16 Fullwood. Cows averaging 31L at the moment, foam wipe apply then spray. Takes 4 hours morning and 3.5 in the afternoon including wash down. We max out at 64 cows an hour and looking to improve lifestyle with going up to 200 cows. Are we likely to as big a gain as we are thinking?
If it's any help, as a guide, going from a 14:14 to a 16:32 halved actual milking time allthough getting cows in will be the same and washing down a bit longer so milking time overall won't be halved.
 

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