How to start a Robotic Dairy Barn- A Day In the Life Of a Robotic Tech
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- Join along as I show you what I do for my off farm job working for Handfield Dairy Equipment as we finish up start up week at Richardson's Ice Cream with their brand new 4 unit Delaval Robotic milking set up. Go Check out @Mass Dairymen for future videos of the setup and farm operation
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Great tour for us folks that have no dairy background.....thanks.
I don’t know much about farming on a scale bigger than my 9x9 vegetable garden. But I got recommended one of your videos and thought “Why not Learn something new?” I don’t quite know why but now I am hooked. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for watching any questions you have feel free to ask
That looks amazing loved that guys video. His cows seemed excited for the new barn. Other than scrapper chain causing a nasty area next to the viewing window. Good video
Thanks for the tour Chris! 👍👍
Great looking facility. It must be great to be involved with the up and coming technology and facilities on a daily basis. I'm sure it gets crazy at times but also alot of pleasure too. Be safe and see ya on the next one.
What a facility. Looks like lots of happy cows
Looks like a really nice setup there.
Greetings from NZ. what a lovely operation...
Thank u very good information. It looks a little easier than all the old ways.
I have to say, you are the best person I have ever watched on u tube. Just the best narater ever dude, you your family should be very proud of this!!! 1 LEGGED GUY from IOWA 😎
EXCELLENT video, that I really enjoyed watching!
Great video Chris... I’ve seen several facilities but it’s interesting to hear ur perspective as someone who has started so many...
Thanks for watching along
That's a really nice place. I'm definitely going to have to take a ride up there to check it out.
Nice work bud, very nice looking facility
Very nice, well planned out set up, you guys do a good job!!
Appreciate it
Great video, going to send it to a buddy of mine his brother has been thinking about robots
Really enjoyed video. State of the art.
Awesome ! I really enjoyed it.👍
I started following him a week ago.sweet barn 👍
Thanks for watching and joining along
Awesome video.
CHRIS So enjoyed the video. So glad i found you're channel.You have a wealth of knowledge Keep up the good work Thomas Vojta Long Island
Thanks for watching along appreciate it and glad I can share
Loved this great job bro
There’s so much old stuff with farming, it’s always very soothing to see something so new and clean. Sounds like it’s been a long time coming though
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Hey Chris. Great vid mate. So you were in NZ when we started up the 24 unit barn in the south island. I was one of the Oceania VMS Tech Support guys at the time who was responsible for that install and start up. It's a pitty we didn't catch up.
All the best, and great video mate. Cheers from Australia
Man, that’s impressive.
Great video!!
It was interesting to watch
That intro thats the stew peter intro on Rumble pretty cool
it's very tidy . Good.
I like the lely robots that have brushes to clean the teats
Beautiful facility, nice job videoing and explaining the new facility. Thanks for sharing and explaining your passion. Was that Yenko next to the feed pusher at the end of the video?
Pretty cool
Keep these videos coming 👍🇺🇲🐄
Thanks for the support
Beautiful barn, thanks for the tour.
Nice Job Gruss aus Deutschland
That's a really nice place.
It sure is top notch
Thank you for your videos very educational. I'm looking to build a barn for a small homestead. Approximately about 10 cow and 6 pigs. Im trying to design something with low maintenance efficient and comfort. I was wondering if you had any ideas on how to make it all come together.
Thankyou I will.
Thanks to you and to the owners for the tour around. Very interesting video. Neighbors milked the old when I was a kid and the difference to this setup is amazing. Do milk rooms still smell like bleach? I always loved the smell of those rooms for some reason lol
Thabks for watching, the robot rooms definitely smell close to a milk room due to the rain locations during wash
So cool, crazy how things have evolved with the robots, I was wondering how you got so many tractors grown corn lol!
very informative.............thanks for taking the time.
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Nice video
Like the video and info
Glad you liked it
I'm watching these from my home office wondering how I can get set up in a nice cow stall.
Could you maybe someday take us along to one of your retrofit facilities for a tour? It would be nice to see one. I'm thinking of going that way in the future for our 100 cows. All the robot barns around here are new builds. Our free stall is in nice shape, manure, feeding equipment/storage all in place and all in good shape. Hate to have to build and take up good usable farmland since here it's very hard/expensive to pick anymore up to farm around here.
how old is your barn?, are the alleys wide? we did a retrofit and it worked great but i had big stalls and wide alleys... dont cram them in either and have someone work on the bluprint with you b4 you pour concrete
@@byronloveridge8381 barn is around 20 years old, but in really good repair, plus we remodeled the stalls a few years ago. And the roof is fully insulated with 6in of bat insulation covered with vapor barrier and tinned over. The feed alleys are 14-15 feet wide and the outside alleys are 12ft. Barn has a center feed bunk 5ft with bunk feeder set up. Barn cleaner runs across the end for scraping into with skid loader. That's the only hang up is cleaning the barn. Dry cow pen is continued off the end but alleys are narrower but that is because of calving pens/bed pack area.
Hope i can work with your farm sir someday...!
what power/ electricity back up do you have in case of power shortage or power outage? nice video !!!!
There is a dairy barn down the road in Plymouth,IN that has 24 robots was the most in the US 3 years ago , and Fair Oaks Farms is up to 37,000 cows, Indiana doesn't produce the most milk but does have the largest dairy's in the USA !
Yes the 24 is lelys. Fairoaks has 12 delavals. And has a 24 unit barn in Michigan. There's some large 30-100s in the works throughout the USA. I worked with a 64 unit in Chile. Riverview is the largest dairy group in the states with facilities in Minnesota Dakota Arizona. Think they will be milking over 200k cows in the next few years
@@DuffyAg Copy That !
Those vacuum pumps were quiet. We had a 78 ( i think)? Been awhile. That thing was a screaming machine.
Thanks for the video Chris. What a beautiful facility. Almost has to be built up on a hill to care for the waste. These cows seem to know you well. Our cows would be freaked out if anyone new came into the parlor. Nice indeed. FARMING FIXING AND FABRICATION says they don't use robots. I think they're down in Pennsylvania. He is really good at mech, you would wish you had his equip. I like your Jaguar.
Thanks for watching. Andy is located in central New York. Nice operation for sure
I didn't realize that your farm was located in Massachusetts. I am from Massachusetts as well.
Sure is we are located in carlisle
That is nice facility! Find it interesting that it seems all of the robots are classics. Were the robots purchased before the production stopped in 2019, or are they still being sold in your local market?
These robots were sold before the v300s were released. We have v300s going in now
Great video. Get your Duramax fixed yet?
Thank you and not yet been to busy. Have to drop some parts off at machine shop so they can finish the engine and have to paint the frame and its going back together
I use to hand milk a Jersey Milk Cow, I don't know how you dairy farmers survive and how do you deal with the bucket calves.
Does the computer apply teat dip after milking?
Good video, is there a reason for the robots not being vms300? We personaly have 2 delaval robots in Belgium. Nice to see the same machine at the other side of the world.
These were sold over 2 and a half years ago prior to v300s. We are onto our first v300 install now with 3 robots and another 2 single units after that
How long have you had robots?
Hi, Greetings from Turkey. Is there any way possible for me to get this farms lay-out. I wanna start a farm in Turkey and i am looking for several lay-outs to hand it over to my architect to have an idea
Great video. How far west do you go for start ups? I have been promised to see one in ny
I used to cover the America's, I now just stay in New England. There's alot in western NY. Great dealership with some bigger barns 8,11, 24 unit barns along with smaller ones
@@DuffyAg glad to see you say that. We are hoping to build a 1 or 2 unit barn this summer. Have had people tell me to go lely due to poor service from a store delaval closed. We've been on 6 delaval farms in wny.
The tech that covers most everything in wny for robots is one of the best in the states. Depends on location, lely has better support in central NY and eastern NY for sure but has alot of turn over on their crews.
@@DuffyAg from what i've gathered our lely dealer only cares about the big guys, salesman has pissed me off. The lely dealer that i would want to work with said they can't come into ny, we are 5 miles from the border. I like the delaval unit better and guided flow any way
we had lelys for 6 yrs lots of issues with brushes and high scc, plenty of masiltitis, had a barnfire and rebuilt with delaval... best thing i ever did
So how much does a gallon of milk cost
Great barn 4 robots should be able to milk how many
4 robots can do 200-240 cows usually. Lots of factors such as days in milk, milking speed, production and barn layout
Built with OPM?
You said barn layout is key in efficiency of a robot. Do you help in the layout of the barn for the customers or is that usually done by the time you get involved?
I sure do I have alot of experience with that and can guide people especially based on how they plan to manage the barn in the future
@@DuffyAg I used to milk back in the day and I remember really unhappy first calf heifers coming into the parlor. How does that work with the robots when they kick a bunch. And have you seen such thing as a untrainable animal when it comes to the bots?
Because you can manually milk with a delaval it allows you to attach to heifers who are freaking out and not standing still, till they are relaxed. Most heifers do very good in them and are relaxed once they start eating the grain. I have seen extremely nasty animals who don't want to be touched turn into good cows in the robot. Dependa how much time someone wants to give that animal to relax and work with them
How far is this location from your farm and do you go home every night or will you stay up there for a couple of days at a time?
This one is 35 minutes from me, so I slept in a chair some but mostly go home. My area is 2 hrs from home so further start ups I will get a hotel room
@@DuffyAg ok thanks for the response sir
They also look like classics?
They are these robots were sold almost 3 years ago
How much does it cost to build a barn like that without the fancy front wall, curious cuz I'm looking into bots but I'm trying to get a tie stall bot, curious what a whole new setup would be I'm impressed
I'm not sure exactly what that costed the facility is top of the line and took alot of site work. Robots are roughly 180k a unit plus barn. When I worked for delaval I know farmers built 1 unit barns for roughly 500k ready to milk 60 cows. Lot of variables tho. 8 unit barn I worked with 500 cows was 3.4 million with some manure storage
We are curently pushing 1 mil on the numbers i've been able to get on our barn, hoping one of our local builders can do it a little cheaper. Single robot, add 400,000 to get to a 2 unit barn.
man you really love your work! btw beautiful facility! cow welfare at its top
what is this system is this?
We've got 2 Lely's been 6 years now all our dealers are at least 6 hour drive away and we haven't had them out for an emergency call yet, red is the way to go LOL! I've never understood what the point of the manual attach but there is a way to trick the Lely's into manual attach if somebody wanted to. I do agree the DeLaval brushes are the best on the market. Nice looking barn!
can i see your bobot and barn layout ? want bild de same
I grew up on a dairy farm and we always saved colostrum after calf was born. How are fresh cows handled in a robot barn?
The robot diverts the colostrum and can be set to divert based on protocol related to days. Then the robot washes its self. The idea with fresh cows is to get the animal in and going 4 times a day and if that's done they take off really well
can you help him with the camera he uses or have him get a new one
He just got a gopro. He's hoping for more quality moving forward
Doesn’t Great Brook serve Richardson’s?
We have always served bliss brothers from Attleboro Mass
Are those the V300s?
They are classics, were sold over 2 years ago
Duffy....fate may have directed me to your channel. ive been watching for months. Im the guy who comments on your dog. unfortunately i had a tragic accident with my near 15 year old blue heeler on Friday and had to have her put down Saturday morning. long story short, if you know of a breeder that has pups looking for a home just like your dog please let me know. thanks Mark Stoll
I'm sorry for your loss. I will keep my eyes open for a breeder with heeler pups and let you know if I come across any.
@@DuffyAg thanks Duffy as I mentioned before all your viewers see the slightest details and your dog caught my eye. Thank you
Are u a dairy farmer or do u work for delavel?
I previously worked for corporate delaval. I currently work for the local independent delaval dealership along with my family and I milk 120 cows in 2 robots and I custom farm for my self
have you done any rotary with robotics?
Delaval has no robotic rotaries in North America due to regulations and the cost to make them legal. You get more benefit from individual stall robots and the utilization and return is much better
@@DuffyAg i saw a photo on google where there was one robot putting milkers on cows in a rotary parlor
Delaval has teat spray robots for pre and post spray but as of now nothing that actually attaches cups. I'm sure in the future you will see that.
How do robots work with other breeds than Holstein?
They do awesome with any breed. Poorly shaped udders is the down fall but that goes back to breeding program. Jerseys usually thrive in robots due to their curiosity. We have aheard with milking short horns as well. Seen water Buffalo milked in them
Nice set up. You need to teach mass dairy men how to make videos his suck especially the audio. But I still try to watch them.
He just upgraded to a gopro so he's working on that
What kind curtains?
Slide on over to Mass Dairymen channel and ask him he talks about the barn alot
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We have robots in Ireland but our cows are out in the fields eating that Green grass best butter cheese and dairy product you can eat how much a liter are you getting must be good that you can afford that
Our butterfat and protein goes down on pasture, and we get paid by the 100ibs of milk
Are they v300s or v310s?
They are classics. They were sold over 2 years ago
@@DuffyAg why did it take so long to finally get going ?
@@robbybachmann8061 site work took a while then getting the barn builder took some time due to being so busy
@@DuffyAg sounds like how it usually goes hahahaha. I'm in the stages of designing a bsrn with 2 v310 in it
Hey Chris. Great video and I thought u were a diesel machine man not a computer nerd😁have u ever been to Ireland got a few cows here too. But because cows here are outdoors most of the year eating grass a lot of people think they don't suit. What u think? And is the v310 the latest model or is there an new upgrade coming out soon? With a name like Duffy your ancestors must be from Ireland.
So you're actually smart... lol... Nice place there...
I appreciate it
No wonder why ice cream is so expensive. Fancy barn for the image they want to give the city slickers. Cedar posts and porches lol.
these look like classics, wheres the V300s?
These were sold over 2 years ago. We have a 3 unit v300 barn nearing completion and 2 more single unit barns to do as well
ohh right on, curious im in canada and our somatic cell counters all dont work, do you guys have that issue as well?
@@byronloveridge8381 it's not a legal product in the states yet. Friend who has it for testing has struggled when they update software but he's a test farm for software as well
@@DuffyAg ok thanks yeah that seems to be the issue across the board here as well, haven't needed it yet as conductivity and activity seem to be enough for health indications... thanks!
So a cow that’s rejected can produce milk or what does that mean exactly also I like to see it’s not all bad when farming cattle another farming account I follow is sonne farms beef cows we ultimate doom but idk I remember as a kid watching those uh sad videos
When I say thr cow is reject it just means she's not ready to be milked. That is based on hours since last milking or expected yield so we are not milking cows when they don't have adequate amount in them
Now tell us how much one of those robots cost? 500k?
A new robot is roughly 150-180k
@@DuffyAg all that concrete and fancy barn is 600k? So 1.5 million to milk 250 cows?! I suppose if it cuts 2 farm hands at 50k each per yr it will eventually make sense.
@@crazyhass84 usually with barn and everything else it works our yo be 400-500k per 4obot. Robot alone is 150-180. It can pay off with labor savings usually over 5-7 years depending on current situation. Larger farms definitely can see more return on labor savings. But increase in milk and ability to manage with the information is a big benefit to. This barn here is top of the line
@@DuffyAg thank. Even more expensive than i thought. I grew up milking. It was a great life lesson to get my education so i didnt have to farm as primary income. Its a shame teens today r to lazy and we need robots...
So how is it all paid for. I milked 30 cows in Maine. It was all paid for and there was almost no money left after we paid for the grain sawdust and chemicals to wash the pipeline. Ho much debt do these people have. I love seeing this set up but it’s not a realistic thing. The public will think farmers are rich and have plenty of money.
Old intro was better...
So, how's a cow know when to get milked? this is to much for my old farmer head!! I crashed myself just listening to you!! We had 20 head freshen in one week, they were bad to milk at first, falling off, kicking off ect! 6-unit pipeline!
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Who checks cows for health, mastitis etc.? Certainly not robots? Who is checking on the health of livestock? Robots!?