Kicking cows

[Milk maker]

Yea take off times are around 6 sec. Used to strip every day but that would drag you down don't have patience for the extra work, tried it for a month and didn't see any difference. My neighbour said his cows are quite similar and he has a gea Parlour as well ,same dealer set his up so is it a gea fault in that age or is it dealer. I noticed gea tried pushing a qi cluster around same to relieve the problem of uneven milking, anyone else with 8-10 year old gea giving problems?

 

[supercow]

Low milk flow is set at .4 I presume that is litres a minute also think yields are affected even in cows as don't milk out clean every time sometimes up to 2 litres after acr stop . Think Parlour is just sh!t should have bought robots

Not robots, a boumatic parlour ;-) simply cannot fault the big bear. Don't know why they are not more popular

 

[Milk maker]

There called slow matic around here and that's not all the dealer

 

[supercow]

I can't keep up with the thing! Do I mean it's low vacuum and slow milking the cows? It really is a great parlour. It was balls in the Hoover going for them because it wasn't delaval or westfalia but really happy with it

 

[supercow]

P.s. And I have no kicking cows! (Sorry) haha

 

[Milk maker]

Yea thanks for reminder I'm sure it is great Parlour .you would wonder where the differences are in them if they have same vacuum and pulse settings the only difference to the cow must be cluster and liners.

 

[supercow]

Is your low line or high line? I personally think that's a massive difference. Ours is low line, seems very easy on the cow. Have u checked who the hiefers are out of? The hiefers that are rascals are always out of rascal mums! Or by our home bred bull who is breeding a few snappy buggers

 

[Milk maker]

Low line I thought it was best to. Because I'm cross breeding genetics have changed dramatically but problem hasn't

 

[supercow]

Could be flies, flies have been absalutley rife this September for us . Muggy muggy weather.

 

[Milk maker]

Hope ur right but problem seems to go on year round. At least when milk price is up its makes frustrations bearable.

 

[Slippery Slope]

Surely if the problem was parlour based it wouldn't just be the heifers giving you grief? Every now and then we get a group that will be a bit flighty but usually settle down by second lactation.

 

[supercow]

Hope ur right but problem seems to go on year round. At least when milk price is up its makes frustrations bearable.

Exactly, getting kicked on sh!t on phished on and losing more money than sense isn't exactly what you would call fun. All of the above and make a penny is bareable your right!

 

[Milk maker]

That would make sense I presumed cows just settled into it better with bigger teats and milk flows, still see uneven milking across quarters with some not milking out clean maybe I'm over analysing.

I'm culling out the worst of the kickers because there relentless and can't get kicking bars on because of dung guard

 

[multi power]

I'd talk to Ian ohmstad

 

[Bald Rick]

Could be flies, flies have been absalutley rife this September for us . Muggy muggy weather.

+1

Third time this year treated the herd to a dose of Spot On. Works for a few days then the flies get hungry again

 

[pappuller]

+1

Third time this year treated the herd to a dose of Spot On. Works for a few days then the flies get hungry again

We've done them 3 times for the last few years and this year they've hardly bothered the cows at all, few more about this week but no great increase in failed milkings.

 

[O'Reilly]

If your parlour tester didn't notice ringing round the teats, or think to look at why, you need to find someone else. Ian ohnstad is very good and has done work to show that the ideal combination of vacuum and pulse ratio is specific to every liner and is often not the same as the manufacturers recommendations.
I seem to recall that heifers are more prone to over milking because they milk out faster and stop suddenly, or something like that, can't remember exactly.