Could milk 70 cows an hour in our old 16:32 with pre dip, pre wipe entering id and post dip. With cows giving 20 litres a milking. Could milk 180 low yielders an hour in the summer with no prep and a quick teat spray in the same parlour. That's why I take parlour though puts with a big pinch of salt.
What size parlour, how many cow's and how many people milking?
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jersey lou79
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We have a 24/48. Can milk 350 in 2 hours. Only wiping if needed. Use dip cups which does takes extra time but at least it's done properly with a barrier dip. It's a one and half man parlour in my mind. One can cope fine but two rattles them through and you get home earlier
multi power
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Preparation is stripping and then wipe thoroughly with damp paper towels, one per cowMy favourite was what y'all would call a 30:30 (I think) with 420 peak cows, 5 teatsprays on curly cords.
What's your prep routine, is what I'm asking, we had 400kg/MS cows but it didn't take long to poke them through.
2.5hrs in the morning with 2 people
2hrs in the afternoon with 1
(Including a hose out and wash)
Organic place had 540 through a 30as in about the time you describe, hour cleaning though
So, what's the rest of what you do, not trying to be smart, just establishing where the time goes and what to polish.
(You might be feeding your cows a bit better than we did)
But, little is wrong with a pit you can handle yourself in a crisis - I could put as many cows/hr thru them, as my cohorts could manage in a 54 rotary.
No "prep" other than petting the cows though.
What's the prep routine at multi power towers?
(silly f ing kiwi)
Then after milking thoroughly spraying
And no shouting at or chasing cows out (except squirting hefiers that come back in )
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Sounds like fun...
How about, front quarters in the morning, back quarters at night?
Saves your carpal tunnel syndrome ?
Assuming you don't have rampant mastitis issues?
multi power
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Yes I do that in summer, no wipe eitherSounds like fun...
How about, front quarters in the morning, back quarters at night?
Saves your carpal tunnel syndrome ?
Assuming you don't have rampant mastitis issues?
I definitely don't have any mastitis issues, and that's just how I like it
multi power
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@Headless chicken has a 16 32 and I swear it's as quick as the 20 40 here, and it's a dam sight easier too
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Ok guys
Multi power - can you please translate
What's a 30 aside herringbone in ratio-speak?
I thought I knew.
I didn't.
Is it a 15:30 or 30:30? Or summat else?
Multi power - can you please translate
What's a 30 aside herringbone in ratio-speak?
I thought I knew.
I didn't.
Is it a 15:30 or 30:30? Or summat else?
multi power
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You mean 30 cups and swing over ?Ok guys
Multi power - can you please translate
What's a 30 aside herringbone in ratio-speak?
I thought I knew.
I didn't.
Is it a 15:30 or 30:30? Or summat else?
That's a 30 60
15 30 is what you would call a 15 a side swing over
30 30 is 15 cows and 15 cups each side, but I don't think there would be anything so inefficient in paradise
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Now I have it.
So my favourite solo shed is a 30:60
None of that wiping though, too many bugs around to go wiping them onto good quarters.
Nice clean pasture 300 days a year has its merits.
I would have got a verbal for doing just what you folk do!
Funny isn't it?
multi power
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Winter milk isn't my idea !Now I have it.
So my favourite solo shed is a 30:60
None of that wiping though, too many bugs around to go wiping them onto good quarters.
Nice clean pasture 300 days a year has its merits.
I would have got a verbal for doing just what you folk do!
Funny isn't it?
I just have to make the most of it
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It's worse when you have to carry water on a 2 wheeler to defrost 30 sets of everything to milk 7 cows all winter!
Such fun.
lazy farmer
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dump buckets
buffalo_soldier
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The prep Multi is describing is what is expected over here.
Any less and folks would be considered in breach of legislation.
Follow the link on this link if you fancy a read.
https://www.food.gov.uk/business-in...uidance/milk-hygiene-guide-for-milk-producers
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Yeah, our whole water system used to freeze solid for a few weeks.
Was usually around -10 or so over there at sunrise so even buckets of water left in the pump room would be popsicles.
And, too frosty to feed cows on beet, so I'd try to get up before it froze really solid and cart a bucket of hot from home on my lap!
Then, to milk the old bags, tip the water into the milkline very slowly til it got things in the stainless slightly warm, crunch any ice left over.... Ahh it makes me want to cry just thinking about it.
Winter time is for fireplaces and holidays.
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That's really quite interesting, thanks.
Will read it harder when I'm not bouncing around on ploughing
For Fonterra that practice is optional, but as we were governed by higher ruling under food safety guidelines, there was no wiping allowed unless individual wipes with alcohol (and you can imagine how cows like alcohol on a daily basis) so that would be taboo.
All for the sake of organic ice cream.
And Fonterra took about 99% of the milk anyway...
But- in our systems it just isn't needed, nobody pulls cows out of housing to milk them down here (not in those days anyway) so cows come in clean and it's all very simple.
And quick, too, as you'd "imagine"
lazy farmer
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have to say we used to do a full routine through out the yr and now we have stopped it has had no negative effectsThat's really quite interesting, thanks.
Will read it harder when I'm not bouncing around on ploughing
For Fonterra that practice is optional, but as we were governed by higher ruling under food safety guidelines, there was no wiping allowed unless individual wipes with alcohol (and you can imagine how cows like alcohol on a daily basis) so that would be taboo.
All for the sake of organic ice cream.
And Fonterra took about 99% of the milk anyway...
But- in our systems it just isn't needed, nobody pulls cows out of housing to milk them down here (not in those days anyway) so cows come in clean and it's all very simple.
And quick, too, as you'd "imagine"
buffalo_soldier
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That's really quite interesting, thanks.
Will read it harder when I'm not bouncing around on ploughing
For Fonterra that practice is optional, but as we were governed by higher ruling under food safety guidelines, there was no wiping allowed unless individual wipes with alcohol (and you can imagine how cows like alcohol on a daily basis) so that would be taboo.
All for the sake of organic ice cream.
And Fonterra took about 99% of the milk anyway...
But- in our systems it just isn't needed, nobody pulls cows out of housing to milk them down here (not in those days anyway) so cows come in clean and it's all very simple.
And quick, too, as you'd "imagine"
No worries, I always like to give our southern hemisphere colleagues a chortle at our regs.
There will be something in there I bet along the lines of just because it looks clean, it doesn't mean it is.
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It's funny you should say that, we used to teatspray the whole herd with 'organic teat spray' ie tea tree oil and manuka honey, and whenever I stopped, the SCC would drop.
Amazing cows though, 18 years of clever organicking had culled out any pretenders.
Lowest scc in southland the season I was there, have the cert. in my office to this day.
Whenever it rose, camp mother would get out in the yard with the Scenar and make it go down again.
Fudge knows how that worked,it looked like a remote control, but apparently the rusky's developed it for use in the space station as with reticulated water they couldn't use any antibiotics.
Amazing.
Sorry for the OT
(Hand smack)
As you were.
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I often have the thought - imagine how great GB could be if the rules of farming were written by experienced farmers, and not dimwits.
But, it's awfully hard to get the toothpaste back into a tube.
@Kiwi Pete what would your bactoscan be like in the shoulders of the year? I think multipower is organic like me and I guess he is on a similar bacto bonus so wants to keep it low?