ADF Milking.

Crusty

Member
How many weights do people have on there adf units? Or are they all the same
We went from a manus abreast with very heavy claws into a gea herringbone with adf and they weighted our units up with 4 weights to match the manus ones but we took all the weights off before the first milking as it seemed stupid to have heavy claws increasing liner slip etc. Scc increased abit when we first went into the new parlour as stale cows didn't milk out properly but we just dried them off early. Mastitis rate dropped from 38% to 9% in the new parlour
 

Crusty

Member
So what was down to the parlour and what was down to the adf.......impossible to tell?
Had a staph aureus problem in the old parlour, since new parlour and culling infected cows we don't see it.
Had vacuum controlled pulsation in the old parlour, now electric
Had heavy claws and liner slip in old parlour and now have extremely little.

Staph aureus would definitely be adf in my opinion, the rest down to better milking equipment. Couldn't tell you what % of the mastitis was staph aureus without looking back but would be interesting to know.
 

William26

Member
When I spoke to Adf they said i need a a compressor which will cop with 5400 litres a minute at 4 bar , when I gave these requirements to the local compressor company they said I’d need a massive one to cop with this. I think they said a 60kw?
Is this correct?
 

Horn&corn

Member
Think there’s a mix up there somewhere. Pretty sure ours is 3 phase but not a big motor and doesn’t run much during milking. Better check your capacity again with adf
 

William26

Member
Will have to ring and double check the specs again!, didn’t think you’d need anything more than a 4 or 5 kw compressor to run it! Thanks!
 

farmer1989

Member
Location
cumbria
Had adf from the beginning pain in the arse when units start leaking and blowing pipes bit find that because you don't go round manually dipping you miss cows that have kicked units or not milked our properly so we have for last 6 years gone round after adf with genus barrior dip as we felt like the adf dip was only good short term mastitis dropped and cell count aswell
 

Farmer Keith

Member
Location
North Cumbria
So you manually dip everything as you’ve not maintained your ADF? Personally I’d rather a machine was doing it over a human, people get drunk and weekends and don’t want to post dip on Sunday evenings or if they’re looking for a speedy finish. Can you not run barrier dip through the ADF?
 
How much is every one paying foe ADF parts, I'm paying £32 + del for liners, centre block on cluster £50 +, twin pipe £7/m.
As said above if you don't replace them you end up with an operator shower
 

farmer1989

Member
Location
cumbria
So you manually dip everything as you’ve not maintained your ADF? Personally I’d rather a machine was doing it over a human, people get drunk and weekends and don’t want to post dip on Sunday evenings or if they’re looking for a speedy finish. Can you not run barrier dip through the ADF?

Don't feel like adf alone is good enuf by the time the cows come round the rotary can hardly tell if there is any adf chemical on the teats we went back to using only adf but mastitis rose and so did cell counts so gone back to genus barrior dip when the system gets a few years old it's in constant need of repair
 

Farmer Keith

Member
Location
North Cumbria
Maybe the systems are different on rotaries then, I wouldn’t say ours is in need of constant repair, it’s not faultless but I’m yet to find a bit of kit that isn’t. 11-22 herringbone here and I would not go back to manual dipping in a hurry.
 

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