Milk machine

[sandywil90]

Heatwave will do the trick..

 

[Bob c]

but you have to mix the milk up

 

[Downton_shep]

Last week our rep said milk powder prices will be dropping in the new year.

 

[Bob c]

@neilo
whats this bit for ( in red )
flushing water down the milk line ?

 

[Case290]

Mixing whole milk in you don't need it if only using powder.

 

[Girlfarmer]

Yes it's for flushing pipes. U stick one end in bucket of disinfectant etc. and attach a pipe off the milk reservoir to the other port then flick the metal switch on the other side and it forces the water through the pipe. Then repeat for other 5 pipes.

 

[neilo]

Yes it's for flushing pipes. U stick one end in bucket of disinfectant etc. and attach a pipe off the milk reservoir to the other port then flick the metal switch on the other side and it forces the water through the pipe. Then repeat for other 5 pipes.

It's a peristaltic pump. You can also use it to pump some extra colostrum in when mixing powder I think. I've never used it tbh.
Cleaning through the pipes, which I find rarely necessary, is easier done with a 60ml syringe IME.

 

[Bob c]

Has anyone got a mobile number for britmix
answer phone all the time and dont seen to be able to leave a message

thanks Bob

 

[Walwyn]

Has anyone got a mobile number for britmix
answer phone all the time and dont seen to be able to leave a message

thanks Bob

Send an email. I emailed Thursday and they phoned yesterday morning.

 

[slug]

Does anybody know how much a new Britmix milkmade 2000 feeder is?
Can't get through on the phone number and awaiting for a response via email.
Cheers

 

[Bob c]

yes £1580 + vat

 

[Arable with sheep]

Has anybody tried BRITMILK Vitalamb throgh a Britmix feeder ?

 

[Sethieboy]

Britmix milkmade 2000. Paid aprox £1600 for it. The chap changed the design a couple of ears ago so any powder can be used in it i.e. freeflow or standard. Low fuss no hastle! Dam good machine!

 

[Estate fencing.]

I bought a heatwave last year. Brilliant machine, we had 80 lambs on it and they did better than the twins on ewes. Mixed the milk up every morning with a plaster mixer and gave it a mix before I went home at night. It was very little work to rear a decent group of lambs.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Heatwave will do the trick..

What do these cost to run for 24hrs?

 

[neilo]

What do these cost to run for 24hrs?

Probably less than the labour cost of mixing the milk up for it, unless you have spare, free labour available over lambing time of course.

Electric costs for heating will be fairly similar for all these machines I would imagine, and dependant on how much milk is going through them/how many lambs are on it.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Probably less than the labour cost of mixing the milk up for it, unless you have spare, free labour available over lambing time of course.

Electric costs for heating will be fairly similar for all these machines I would imagine, and dependant on how much milk is going through them/how many lambs are on it.

I've been told I'm being charged £7.20 per machine per day for electric. This seems very expensive to me but I wondered what the collective wisdom was.

 

[ford4000]

I've been told I'm being charged £7.20 per machine per day for electric. This seems very expensive to me but I wondered what the collective wisdom was.

I can believe they are expensive, on my milkmaid the lights will dim when the lambs are drinking as it heats up more water, and 50 lambs will drink often. My electricity bill is considerably higher over this period of time

 

[borntohunt]

@neilo
whats this bit for ( in red )
flushing water down the milk line ?

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its a pump for adding cleaning solution round the system pipes ect

 

[sandywil90]

I bought a heatwave last year. Brilliant machine, we had 80 lambs on it and they did better than the twins on ewes. Mixed the milk up every morning with a plaster mixer and gave it a mix before I went home at night. It was very little work to rear a decent group of lambs.

1.44Kw/24 Hours electric is about 13 pence /KW so it is about 20p/day or thereabouts