Dairymaster auto ID

[Cluster_monkey]

Morning, looking at new herringbone parlours at the moment anybody any experience of dairymaster auto Id are even there parlours in general, any comments much appreciated many thanks.

 

[Conrod96]

Dairymaster in here last 11 years couldn’t fault it pleasure to milk in and easy to train heifers. Never any problems with auto id unless the eye on the drafting gate is dirty really.

 

[lazy farmer]

Anecdotally I wouldn’t touch them with a barge pole.

 

[Cluster_monkey]

Anecdotally I wouldn’t touch them with a barge pole.

go on give more detail please

 

[lazy farmer]

go on give more detail please

Can’t it’s under litigation

 

[PDB]

Dairymaster here last 11 years. Milks cows out well. Cell count sub 100, cow flow good.

easy to maintain yourself

downsides is pulsation is quite noisy and too many plastic parts imo

 

[Davy]

A lot of them in this area, ours must be in near 10 years. Whether it's any better or worse than any other brand I don't know, ours does everythings its meant to and gives little bother. The ID is good, it would be rare for the draft gate to miss a cow.

 

[dairyrow]

Think everyone around here putting id on every stall rather than just a ready on the entrance

 

[Cluster_monkey]

Think everyone around here putting id on every stall rather than just a ready on the entrance

Not a option on dairymaster, this is my concern

 

[andrew830]

Been using ours for 25 years,auto id works very well as does the rest of it.

 

[Jdunn55]

Can’t it’s under litigation

Can you say if you had one? Will say enough!

 

[Conrod96]

Only time she’ll miss a cow on entrance is if she’s standing to far forward when the gate is opened happens us bit more this time of year than usual because they fresh calved and come rushing in

 

[vantage]

Only time she’ll miss a cow on entrance is if she’s standing to far forward when the gate is opened happens us bit more this time of year than usual because they fresh calved and come rushing in

Delaval like that, but has a reader on the front stall to correct.

 

[Cluster_monkey]

Only time she’ll miss a cow on entrance is if she’s standing to far forward when the gate is opened happens us bit more this time of year than usual because they fresh calved and come rushing in

And does this s mess all feeders up so wrong cow gets wrong amount? As in 1st cow gets second cows amount and so on

 

[Conrod96]

And does this s mess all feeders up so wrong cow gets wrong amount? As in 1st cow gets second cows amount and so on

Yeah it will but it’s not hard fixed just punch her number in on her meter and will correct that then maybe not so handy done if cows aren’t freeze branded tho but doesn’t really happen to often might happen one row once a week when they are fresh for us and as they go stale very rarely happens

 

[lazy farmer]

Can you say if you had one? Will say enough!

No it’s not my parlour thank goodness

 

[dairyrow]

And does this s mess all feeders up so wrong cow gets wrong amount? As in 1st cow gets second cows amount and so on

Yes it will do if they are fed when they get read. Fullwood every stall and it feeds them from the front to back helps getting them into the right stalls.

 

[dairyrow]

No it’s not my parlour thank goodness

Has he got Ian Ohnstad and Roger Blowey against him? It's not fun and i wish him well. Ours was a nightmare.

 

[peterich86]

Dairymaster herringbone here for last 5 years works very well, easy to use and easy to maintain, milks cows out fast and very well, auto I'd is good, as mentioned by some if cows enter fast then it may miss the first cow, it will never miss a cow in middle of the side unless the cow has lost her tag, if a cow is missed then you tap her number in and the computer will correct all the other stalls automatically, the auto I'd works very well if you install the sound system as well, you can have voice messages announced when cows enter the parlour then again when you swing the swing arm over to put cluster on, messages such as, antibiotic, colustrum or cow in heat, the milker dosent have to look at the screen on the meter to be told about warnings meaning less mistakes made in the parlour,

 

[westwards]

I have one, 12/24 put in 14 years ago with auto ID. Worked well for first 8 years then put in an inverter to make vacum pump variable speed supplied by them and auto ID went to pot !!
At the same time put in a shedding gate and it has never ever worked properly.
I like the parlour and the auto ID when eveything is working ok, but very frustrating when its not a very costly.