Robotic milking

[Bald Rick]

horizon will replace t4c in time

Weirdly, Lely Midlands emailed me earlier about Horizon … but I deleted it without opening.
Might have a peek now

 

[Bald Rick]

Weirdly, Lely Midlands emailed me earlier about Horizon … but I deleted it without opening.
Might have a peek now

Had a peek.
See that there is a new general manager and a host of engineers … none of whom I recognised
Does suggest that more machines are being installed

 

[pappuller]

We're on

 

[No1 Yorkshire Farmer]

Heres a conondrum for you. Has anyone come across cows drying quarters off? Entire herd are 1st time calvers. Danish Jerseys. The animals in question are around 100DIM. I happened to notice a couple of the best animals had abnormal shaped udders and suspected uneven milking. Started to monitor cows being milked and realised that the ACR’s just flew off having harvested maybe 0.3kg. Udder was red and full of milk. Reattached manually and i was easily getting 2 or 3kgs. Very long story short, it now seems i have 10+ cows milking on 3 and some on 2. My question is, has anyone experienced anything similar? My initial guess is that pre milking hasnt been calibrated correctly which would result in delayed milk let down amd the machine gets annoyed and just pulls the ACR off Cows are in excellent condition, i have a nutritionist on the way and a vet. I am 99.9% certain its not a nutritional problem. Its very strange and nothing i have ever come across before.
our avg harvesting flow is 0.9kg per min. I have been told by another manufacturer that anything below 2 is very low and cause for concern.

sorry for the long read

TIA

sounds very much like a technical issue and nothing to do with feed or vet (although you will need vet to witness whats going and back you up and sort out the problem)

guessing simple stuff like air bleade holes and split liners have been looked at

potencially could be a software problem, maybe delete out the cow and re enrol new so data caries over about dead milk time / cup on/off

 

[Ducky]

Wondering if anyone had the brushes on a Lely A3next brushing to far to one side (left hand side), never any problem putting the cups on

 

[Peter]

Wondering if anyone had the brushes on a Lely A3next brushing to far to one side (left hand side), never any problem putting the cups on

If memory serves me right. There is an offset setting. Cannot remember where it is though. Give your service tech a call. May be able to fix over the phone. Is it all cows and about the same amount to the side?

 

[ollie989898]

Is there anyone with robots who genuinely does not go and hunt cows through the thing religiously several times a day? I only ask because if it was me, there is no way I would ever find the motivation to do this, I'm far too idle. I'd sooner sell the fudging cow or let her organise her own life than go around rounding up 'non-conformists'.

 

[yin ewe]

Is there anyone with robots who genuinely does not go and hunt cows through the thing religiously several times a day? I only ask because if it was me, there is no way I would ever find the motivation to do this, I'm far too idle. I'd sooner sell the fudging cow or let her organise her own life than go around rounding up 'non-conformists'.

Do it am and pm here, times vary depending on what else is happening, only 1 bot so 15/20 mins max to get cows into pen then leave them to while I go do other stuff.

 

[Gerbert]

I think I have collected 1 cow in the last 2 weeks. Just came out of the shed and 1 cow was borderline but she did fine the last time so she'll do fine this time. I only have 50 cows max on the robot though.

 

[Ducky]

If memory serves me right. There is an offset setting. Cannot remember where it is though. Give your service tech a call. May be able to fix over the phone. Is it all cows and about the same amount to the side?

Have already spoke to service however not managed to sort it yet.

 

[Sid]

Is there anyone with robots who genuinely does not go and hunt cows through the thing religiously several times a day? I only ask because if it was me, there is no way I would ever find the motivation to do this, I'm far too idle. I'd sooner sell the fudging cow or let her organise her own life than go around rounding up 'non-conformists'.

Never, if we have to fetch a cow there is an issue with her. Summer or winter.

We use 3 smart gates, 2 for summer for ABC grazing and 1 in winter.

If we were religiously fetching cows might as well put in a parlour!

 

[Stewart97]

Can the Delaval robots do the butterfat and protein monitoring and cow rumination? Even as a add on ?

 

[Scholsey]

Can the Delaval robots do the butterfat and protein monitoring and cow rumination? Even as a add on ?

Haven’t they just focused on their milk enzyme monitoring for everything instead?

 

[Lewis]

JOZ to take over fullwood.

JOZ strengthens position by taking over Fullwood

JOZ takes over Fullwood. The leading milking system brand will then continue under the name Fullwood JOZ.

joz.nl

 

[celtis man]

I think I have collected 1 cow in the last 2 weeks. Just came out of the shed and 1 cow was borderline but she did fine the last time so she'll do fine this time. I only have 50 cows max on the robot though.

Do you only have one robot

 

[Gerbert]

Indeed.

 

[celtis man]

Indeed.

I suppose you staff it with really good milky cows

 

[Gerbert]

Nah I milk bulls. 4 in one go like magic.

 

[celtis man]

Nah I milk bulls. 4 in one go like magic.

And I thought only the Cornish did sarcasm
Milking time here

 

[Gerbert]

is that the parlour or do you have a tie stall? There are a few tie stalls left in my neighbourhood, we had one untill 1992.