All things Dairy

[Happy hillbily]

Why haven’t you got a washline and jetters?
It’s the cheapest thing to set up on any parlour,just a pipe back to the wash trough and six jetters.

There's a variety of reasons.
Years ago I split the milk line with a butterfly tap and had pipework and jetting heads fitted to the milk line, but took longer to wash than just unplugging the clusters and taking them to the dairy, and also had to carry hot water to to the parlour to wash the outside of the clusters and pipes, where as you just give them a quick brush whilst their in the washtub. Also it's nearly 90ft from one end of the parlour to the dairy the way the pipe goes, so with an extra wash line, there would be even more heat loss from the hot wash in winter
Also when we get cold weather in winter, the clusters get kept in the dairy untill just before we start milking, nothing is frozen and can milk at -16 without having to have space heaters running to thaw the place out. (When we get freezing weather the parlour is kept dry, in all senses, much safer for man and animal)
We do all the fertility work, A'i, freeze branding etc in the parlour, so it's better not to have the clusters there at that time.
And the last one, KISS

 

[O'Reilly]

To wet to chop, help the lawn carbon footprint🫣View attachment 1177038View attachment 1177045

I kept some on the lawn for a week once. Was fine until one came bulling very noisily! Mrs was not happy!