- Location
- North yorks
Located top end of North Yorkshire on fairly heavy clay soils ( good for grass growth not so good for grazing in a wet year) we milk them horride Holstein things that people keep telling me don't work on a grazing system
Robotic milking
- Thread starter newholland
- Start date
- Location
- North West
Join the club, just breeding ours to be a bit more uniform trying to remove the biggest 25%
Chips
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- Location
- Shropshire
- Location
- Northumberland
We work A/B 12 hour intervals. Find it works well if you get the amount of available grass right. The tricky bit !
Give then too much and they go to sleep in the field and don`t come back.
When it is working well there are not usually any cows to fetch
Give then too much and they go to sleep in the field and don`t come back.
When it is working well there are not usually any cows to fetch
- Location
- North West
How much is a robot these days? I saw one with an arm for four boxes think it was a GEA?
- Location
- South Molton
They're worth scrap value only from all accounts. I know 3 set ups ripped out or coming out
- Location
- North West
- Location
- South Molton
GEA.
Lely take a cut on any s/h installed through dealers....a big cut!
wasted years
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- Location
- Cumbrian born and bread
- Location
- South Molton
Thats why I had a quote from an ex dealer.
- Location
- North West
The GEA ones or robots in general. How much is a lely a4? Second hand ones on the net are around 50k so a new one must be around 100k installed? Including all associated costs.
That doesn't sound good. Although the guy I played squash with in NZ had a rotary which fell off the rollers all the time! Those are my two options.
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Pair of lely a4s on 1 central unit circa 200k can be specced lower ie no weigh floor, pura steamer or scc guide price has increased by around 12%due to currency
wasted years
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- Location
- Cumbrian born and bread
Was it a stationary then?
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Have the geas really been that bad thought they were still available
wasted years
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- Location
- Cumbrian born and bread
I have not seen one let alone used one but he was clear enough.
He said the local dealer hadn't even sent a single employee on the training course to look after them.
They built a complete new unit for them but have sold the farm, bought another and are going into feeding cattle.
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Funny that we have a v good gea dealer v close, had the gea robot reptile give us the spiel before we had decided and then he said they weren't prepared to put robots into an existing setup, only new builds. After a neighbour had a gascoigne robot parked on his yard for 5 years in the 90s after they went tits up I'm surprised that gea haven't got it sorted
- Location
- North West
Jesus back to the rotary it is then 400k for the rotary or 800k for enough robots.
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
If youve got the cows and staff your probably right, 1.9m litres one man,either a full time man or 3 robots ,same cost per year for 10 yrs. Where abouts in Cheshire r u ? I'm between sandbach and congleton
- Location
- North West
Near the Duke of Westminster. There's s farm with robots somewhere near you just on zero grazing? When conditions allow.
We're doing 30l year round on average on a robot I'd hope to do at least 32l. 60 cows per robot 3 robots 2.1million litres. Our consultants have a few robot farms. Think the jury is out cost wise.
I've not seen many that have gone in for the right reasons but I've not seen many in the U.K.
Cut crops on plenty of robot units in Canada that we're doing the business.
- Location
- South Molton
Gea ones