Robotic milking

[FarmerWasty]

Daft question but what’s trifender?
Classics that have come out round us are in the scrap yard, you’ve done well to get 15k.

Trifender is 1% iodine with 9 seconds kill time. Pre/post.
I think it's the fact our classics have best kpis on our dealers books, dealer services from beginning and they are getting sick of issues that they've never seen before and most staff not trained on classics.
So they wanted the deal to go through and we stood firm that they had to buy them off us.

 

[Bruce Almighty]

On a robot farm, how do you gather cows for things like TB testing, vaccinations, fly control etc ?

 

[upnortheast]

We put a race & crush along the cross passage at the far end of the shed. Our shed design means a few extra gates in & the cows can be brought up 1 side of the shed & released into other side. Hope that makes sense

 

[Scholsey]

On a robot farm, how do you gather cows for things like TB testing, vaccinations, fly control etc ?

Locking yokes

 

[Wesley]

On a robot farm, how do you gather cows for things like TB testing, vaccinations, fly control etc ?

Locking yokes here as well.

 

[surprisefarmer]

I do my vaccinating just walking around the shed, usually take the wife with my and she ticks off the cows as I jag them. My cows are quite used to being jagged like that as I be doing fertility programmes every week.

TB test for us is a bit of a nightmare, we have to take the cows out to an external crush, take them out in batches of 7 as that is what my crush can hold.

 

[surprisefarmer]

Has anybody got any experience with Boumatic robots?

 

[rusty]

Has anybody got any experience with Boumatic robots?

I have a mate who has 4 of the double box ones. He gets on ok with them but they will be for sale probably next year as he is putting in a rotary (milking 500+)

 

[pappuller]

On a robot farm, how do you gather cows for things like TB testing, vaccinations, fly control etc ?

Race 24 at a time

 

[nonemouse]

On a robot farm, how do you gather cows for things like TB testing, vaccinations, fly control etc ?

Fly control I can usually do by walking round them and treating them, vaccination and tb testing- I still have old parlour (6 a side) and collecting yard. Roofed over collecting yard with a csf grant and use it for a segregation pen and have a foot crush in there. Parlour also used for Ai and vet fertility visits so cows aren’t too bad to get in

 

[surprisefarmer]

I have a mate who has 4 of the double box ones. He gets on ok with them but they will be for sale probably next year as he is putting in a rotary (milking 500+)

What year are they? I am probably going to have to change my DeLaval robots now before Christmas and was looking at the new Boumatic as an option

 

[rusty]

I think they are 3 to 5 years old. They went on over a two year period I think.

 

[Wishful Thinker]

Automatic guns, tin of spray, can of red bull before you start and the wife if she's in a good mood. Split the house in half, go in afternoon when most lying down, gun in each hand and go like frig. Can get most jagged lying down, if quick enough they never move.

Salmonella vaccine and tb test the real pains. Crush and pens hold 60odd. Fill it and keep half the cows still in robots milking away. Put them in an alley way once done and take remainder of cows out. Means half the cow always have access to robots, saves the late cows.

 

[goldtop]

Air compressor for sale. £1500
HPC SX6 aircentre compressor with drier. Currently used to run 3 Merlin 225's. Just been serviced. 3 phase.
I purchased it second hand as back up to my other compressor a few years ago, and only for sale due to loss of tenancy.
Might also be a Merlin 225 for sale, set up for Jerseys, cheap extra robot or spares.

 

[goldtop]

Forgot a photo

 

[s line]

Air compressor for sale. £1500
HPC SX6 aircentre compressor with drier. Currently used to run 3 Merlin 225's. Just been serviced. 3 phase.
I purchased it second hand as back up to my other compressor a few years ago, and only for sale due to loss of tenancy.
Might also be a Merlin 225 for sale, set up for Jerseys, cheap extra robot or spares.

Sorry about the loss of tenancy.

 

[ollie989898]

do you all have lights on or lights off over the robots at night? Ours go off at 10:45 until 4.30, pitch black in shed but doesn’t seem to effect visits.

Just have lights over the robots themselves and let the rest of the shed be in darkness to give the cows normal day/night cycles?

 

[Lewis]

@goldtop location?

 

[goldtop]

@goldtop location?

I'm in surrey, PM me if you want some more details.