If cost is no issue or you are really looking to reduce amount of walking it’s fine. But it’sI am still looking
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
why run so slow? Decent amount of fighting with no feed as wellTrust 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.
We always aim to have 10-20% ride around again. No take offs though, would be too much over milking if we ran for the slowestSimple. 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.
we have cup removers , so no over milking.We always aim to have 10-20% ride around again. No take offs though, would be too much over milking if we ran for the slowest
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?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.
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?8 minutes isn't much time for high producing cows to milk out though. We aim for about a 10 minute rotation (roughly).
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.