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Interesting stuff! Charryman are you milking 300 cows off two machines? I though it was a max of 70 cows/unit?
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21/8/2009, 20:21
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Re: Lely Astronaut
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Then time goes by and you stop noticing things like that until one day, you get one, and realise that its been five months since you last had a cut milk tube.
Yep. It seems to get less and less often. 
They still remember to be b*tches though. We have one cow (a Principal daughter) that I milked the night before startup, with a kick bar on she still kicked the unit off 5 times! This was a second calver by that stage. On the robots for that last 3 years, she has "pottered" occasionally, but never needed attention of any kind. Unfortunately, she slipped her calf this time and, although safely back in calf now, is only giving 15kg/day now. I turfed her out into the "parlour" herd about a month ago, for the first time in nearly 3 years. At the first milking, and at every one since, she has kicked like a mule. B*TCH! She might be dry a long while.
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21/8/2009, 22:26
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Re: Lely Astronaut
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Interesting stuff! Charryman are you milking 300 cows off two machines? I though it was a max of 70 cows/unit?
We still have a parlour on the go. We have two Lelys with the idae of keeping the fresh calvers/high yielders in 24/7 on robots, whilst the stale milkers get to graze and go through the parlour as "normal". This has meant that, with a herd of 300, we had a prolonged training period, putting them all on as they calved. As all the robotically milked cows are the higher yielding end of the herd (av. 40kg/day+), we can only really milk 55 cows/robot, or 60 at a push.
But, having been through the system, they are certainly quieter (as with every robot herd we looked at), to the extent that they have to be fetched into the parlour far too much (despite feeders in there).
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21/8/2009, 22:40
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