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<blockquote data-quote="zyklon" data-source="post: 3286954" data-attributes="member: 12075"><p>The Delaval robots are better worked with the feed passage and robots separated from the cubicles. What I mean is the cows have to enter the feeding area before they can enter the robots. If they want back out to the cubicles to lay down, the cows are read and those that need to be milked are diverted to a pen for milking or turned back out to the cubicles. Stops smart greedy cows from entering the robot wasting milking time for others.</p><p></p><p>This also sorts the problem of cows being lazy whatever and not going to the robot to be milked. They can't sleep, eat and go back and sleep. It's sleep, eat, milk if required and sleep again.</p><p></p><p>For your shed, everyone is different. I am a slatted tank only farmer. I hate the sight of solid floors. Been there done that and it doesn't matter if you have scrapers, an all slated tank with scrapers is the best. Cows are cleaner and why waste ground when you can put it under the shed. Not a fan of sand even though it's a great job but I stick to sawdust on a Wilson mattress. No hassle with wrecking the pumps on tankers and with all the water from robots entering the slatted tank, mixing is easy.</p><p></p><p>Slatted tanks are costly but for me, You wouldn't pay me to do a shed without a slatted tank.</p><p></p><p>Most robotic systems around me have the robots on a slated tank.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zyklon, post: 3286954, member: 12075"] The Delaval robots are better worked with the feed passage and robots separated from the cubicles. What I mean is the cows have to enter the feeding area before they can enter the robots. If they want back out to the cubicles to lay down, the cows are read and those that need to be milked are diverted to a pen for milking or turned back out to the cubicles. Stops smart greedy cows from entering the robot wasting milking time for others. This also sorts the problem of cows being lazy whatever and not going to the robot to be milked. They can't sleep, eat and go back and sleep. It's sleep, eat, milk if required and sleep again. For your shed, everyone is different. I am a slatted tank only farmer. I hate the sight of solid floors. Been there done that and it doesn't matter if you have scrapers, an all slated tank with scrapers is the best. Cows are cleaner and why waste ground when you can put it under the shed. Not a fan of sand even though it's a great job but I stick to sawdust on a Wilson mattress. No hassle with wrecking the pumps on tankers and with all the water from robots entering the slatted tank, mixing is easy. Slatted tanks are costly but for me, You wouldn't pay me to do a shed without a slatted tank. Most robotic systems around me have the robots on a slated tank. [/QUOTE]
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