Major Milk Parlor Upgrade (139)
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
- Major Milk Parlor Upgrade - This week, we're upgrading the milk hose in the parlor from 5/8" to 3/4" hose. The increased hose size will allow us to reduce the vacuum level, which will benefit udder health.
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Great video, never thought about using 3/4 milk hose, we do get some cup slip or complete fall off with high producing cows especially new heifers. Can you do a follow-up video in a month or so and analyse how the change has gone with cell count and cup slip. Thank for taking the time to make these videos.
I can follow up on the results in a future video!
Thanks for sharing Piet. Always enjoyable, interesting and educational.
Your guys sure keep things going. Being an old beef guy, I can't get over how uniform the teats are. We had hereford cows and the bigger the bag the better (not).
The money is flowing like a mega milking parlor 👍🇵🇱
GOOD MORNING
Good morning!
The technology in the milking parlor looks very familiar to me. We have the same GEA milking parlor, but 60 places, a deep, narrow pit (we only have one-sided return to the barn) with a lifting floor and the Apollo milking unit with backflush and dipping. Tomorrow I'll check what diameter of hose we have. Greetings from Germany.
How has your experience been with the apollo milk unit, is it reliable?
@@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047 We have had good experiences with the Apollo milking unit. The technology is solid and well-developed. With the automatic dipping and backflush, we can milk 270 cows per hour with 2 people (1 milker and 1 milker/pusher). Our milkers are all on-the-job trained workers from Ukraine with no apprenticeship. With the automatic vacuum shut-off, no dirt gets into the milking unit, but you don't hear it falling down so directly either.
@wolzer90 Thanks for sharing, that's very efficient! Automatic post dipping in the liner is something I'm interested in to potentially install on our farm.
Hi I like your video
How many robot milkers would it take to replace your parlor?
24
It would depend on how we would retrofit them in. It would work out to 28 to make it work with our pens, but then we'd need to add cows to make the robots more efficient.
Is the milker unit outlet still 5/8 and the inlet to the milk line still 5/8? Not sure what you would gain without increasing all connections to 3/4.
The milk unit and milk meter connections are 3/4" inch.
How big is the vacuum now? when you talk about 125 what unit of measurement are you referring to? In Italy we talking about-0.41kpa of vacuum
Thanks
After changing to the larger hose we're consistently averaging 12.2-12.3 in Hg at the milk unit, that's about 41.5 kPa. We've reduced the large fluctuations in vacuum that we used to have with the smaller hose. The vacuum is set based on the liners we are using on the milk units.
What do you think of the brown Swiss cattle
They're very similar to donkeys 😂
Our brown Swiss are very similar to our holsteins as far as production, components and health.
Hey Piet, ga je dan het vacuüm handmatig verlagen als er een laagproductieve groep binnen komt? De vacuümregelaar verder opendraaien of is dat elektrisch te regelen? Interessante vlog.
De vacuum blijft het zelvde voor alle koeien. Met de kleinere slang konden we het vacuum niet lager zetten omdat de vacuum te laag dee zakken bij de milk unit bij hoge productie koeien. Nu blijft het meer consistent bij ale koeien.
@@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047 thanks Piet
How many cows are you guys milking?
1600 cows.
How many cows in your herd ??
Around 1800 cows in total, milking 1600 cows.
How many cows your milking
We're milking 1600 cows.
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A lot of whistling for what
I also noticed that negatively
To keep the cows moving
It signals the cows that they can come into the parlor.