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When should the cluster be detached for cows?

Published: April 26, 2018
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Benefits of early detachment Faster milking. Early detachment reduces machine-on time. This may or may not result in milking more cows per hour depending on parlour size and milking routine. AMS benefit the most from a short machine-on time. Calm cows. Several studies have observed calmer cows when detaching at a higher flow rate. First lactation cows seem to be more sensible to overm...
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Ralph Ginsberg
C.Y.C. Agricultural Technologies & Management Ltd
Rupert Bruckmaier
University of Bern
University of Bern
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Simon Broddle
2 de mayo de 2018
Isn't this where the modern robotic systems come into their own as the ACR's work on individual quarters rather than the entire udder? On numerous occasions you can see the final quarter coming off in twice the time as the first, leading to the theory that one quarter is massively over milked. There are a number of health benefits to robotic milking, whether frequency of milking, clean equipment between cows etc, but the individual quarter ACR is probably one of the most important as well.
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shimon carmi
2 de mayo de 2018
in teory you are rite but numbers will tell you that actualy SCC in robotic farms are not lower than convetional farms unfourtunatly they are evan worth.
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Simon Broddle
2 de mayo de 2018
Dear Shimon, your experience is very different to mine. We find lower cell counts in all cases where the farm moves to robots. However, this is often due to the old parlour being out of date and moving cows from twice a day milking to random times. Generally there is a rise in milk yield but most significant is how the herd mentality changes. Either way, we find that the cluster removal in robots added to the fact they are washed thoroughly between cows makes the cows healthier overall.
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shimon carmi
2 de mayo de 2018
hello Simon Broddle we have only 75 robots in Israel and most cows are milked three times a day before the new robot so when mooving from X3 to 2.7 in the robot we see decline in milk and rize in SCC.
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shimon carmi
2 de mayo de 2018
hello Simon i think in general the sooner the better. we recomand 0.5-0.8 Kg per minute and the rest of the parameters are important as well. i think Ralf Ginsberg also have a lot of knowledge.
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