celtis man
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12 tie cow house with a pipeline
The farm assurance woman said last week if you want to milk there that's your affair
Robotic milking
- Thread starter newholland
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The farm assurance woman said last week if you want to milk there that's your affair
Gerbert
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- Dutch biblebelt
It doesn't matter if you milk 12 or 1200, you do you 
celtis man
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78 it takes a whileIt doesn't matter if you milk 12 or 1200, you do you
Gerbert
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- Dutch biblebelt
Like I said, you do you, cause I'm not gonna .
I don't think I would have any love for milking cows if I had to do it that way.
.I don't think I would have any love for milking cows if I had to do it that way.
That brings back memories...we milked in a 28 standing (14 each side) & six units up until we fired up a new parlour a few days before Christmas ‘99. So simple & basic, virtually nothing to go wrong. Vacuum pump & diaphragm milk pump.And I thought only the Cornish did sarcasm
Milking time here
Looking for some practical thoughts on retrofitting robots into this set up. Initial discussions with one company only so far. Area 1 fit channels and two robots. Area 4 is calving pens and work well, convert it to cubicles and calve in area 3 instead. Things go well consider area 2 for more. 107 cubicles in shed. 103 in right hand shed. Getting my head around cow flow is taking a bit.
s line
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- Gloucestershire uk
Where that blue c is the feed passage. 80 locking yokes with 107. 80 but really 70 yokes with the 103. Another 30 yokes where we calve the now
s line
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- Gloucestershire uk
Ok thank you. My concern would be that the robot's are so close to the slurry lagoon. Flies and smell.
Would there be enough room at the other end of the cubicles?
The other end would need cubicles taken out but so would the other anyway. The slurry channel goes all the way to the calving pens the now as return footbath race so not to far to extend for robots at top end. The end away from lagoon was suggested on Monday, just thinking there’s less potential fresh individual spaces.
Parlour would go. Was at a new unit on Wednesday with 5 robots and he still put 28 through the parlour every day. Area 4 would actually work really well from a fitting and sited point. Would flow be ok not on end of cubicles?
s line
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- Gloucestershire uk
I would keep area 4 as calving pens. Looks like more people movement around that area to keep an eye on things. Then they would be handy to put in the robot at that end of the shed.
Maybe office above the robot as well?
Maybe office above the robot as well?
Could abc at lagoon end for grazing some?
Flow would be fine imo. Put calving pens/separation area/extra cubicles where parlour and collecting yard is, the calves are handy to move into calf house. A neighbour has 3 robots and milks 40 odd in the parlour, would be better selling 40 tail enders, wouldn't see much of a drop in the bulk tank.
TheRanger
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- SW Scotland
What space is there in the yard above the shed. Put them where the molasses tank is and use area 4 for fresh calved cows / separation pen
The yards a level up behind molasses tank plus there’s a water pipe through it. Would work well that if it had been possible
Claas Andy
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- South West Scotland
We have 5 second hand Lelys put into an existing shed - don't think we are a million miles away from you if you want to have a chat/view?
Milkcow365
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- Sw Scotland
Did I get a cow from you?