Automatic Milk Permission.

This is not the first time that we have Tippen about the automatic milk permission.

Since DelPro update 10.x, the possibilities have been expanded again, hence this Tip.

We used to have 3 possibilities, for the newly milked cows, for the cows that are further in lactation and for the cows that almost have to be dried off.
Then in the first period the hours after the last milking and in the second period the expected milk yield were leading for permission for the next milking.

This has been expanded to 5 possibilities, and in this way we can make the milk permission even more gradual.

We still give the cows permission again in the first period, the first 50 – 60 days after calving, from 5 hours after the last milking. But afterwards, depending on milk production and occupancy on the robots, the permission for hours after the last milking can be increased more gradually. But those hours still need to be increased, for example in the first period to 5 hours but second period to 7 or 8 and third period to 8 or 9. The penultimate period to 9 or 10 and for drying off the hours to 11.

We leave the expected milk yield almost the same, for heifers to 8 or 9 litres and older cows to 9, 10 or 11 litres, depending on the daily production of your cows and the occupancy on the robots.

All this with the aim of distributing the available milkings per day, at most companies between 150 and 200 milkings, as efficiently as possible. And for the individual cow it also applies: both too often and too few milkings per day are not good for the udder health.

We only lower these settings in the first weeks after you have started with the robot(s) and sometimes for a short period if the cows are not coming well.
But especially the latter must be solved differently!

Fluctuations in daily production, incomplete milkings, kicking off, etc.

When you look at the Attention board at Daily production overview, there is a symbol of a graph at the top right. If you click on it, a graph will appear where you can see over a longer period what the average daily production has been in the period you specified.

It is interesting to look at this over a period of a year or even longer.

The average number of milkings per day can be seen and also whether more or fewer incomplete milkings or kicking offs occurred in a certain period or on certain days.

Sometimes you see slow changes, sometimes peaks or troughs.

Can you remember why things went less well or better than average in certain periods / days? For example, a major ration change, hoof-trimming day, many new heifers calved, a long standstill due to a malfunction or service, ….. .

And, even better, can some negative changes be prevented in the future?

Dear reader,

From now on you can read the Tips per category on these pages.

So for information about, for example, udder health or concentrate supply, you can find which Tips have been written about this per category since 2010.

There are Tips that are old and Tips that fit into multiple categories.

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Use a high-pressure cleaner?

It is very tempting to occasionally clean the robot with a high-pressure cleaner.

DeLaval is against using a high-pressure cleaner when cleaning the robot.
Because there is too much hardware and also moving parts such as encoders, camera, touchscreen, which can very badly withstand the water pressure of a high-pressure cleaner.
It is protected, but you also want the VMS to last 24/7 for many years.

If you still want to use the high-pressure cleaner for the floor and the fencing, do so with your Farmersense, so with a minimum pressure, at most 80 Bar and pay close attention to what you are spraying.

And make sure that the robot room is well ventilated in the meantime and afterwards.
The splashes go everywhere and the vapor otherwise hangs in the robot room for hours and that is also very bad for the printed circuit boards etc.!

Try to clean as much as possible with the water hose with sprayer in combination with a car wash brush, cleaning cloth, to have to use the high-pressure cleaner as little as possible.

Do you have a concentrate feed box?

Sometimes you need a concentrate feed box to be able to give the desired extra amount of concentrate feed that cannot be taken up in the milking robot to high-producing cows.

Do you have insight into whether these cows are actually coming there and whether the programmed amounts are being taken up sufficiently?
There are nice lists to show this, especially when it is programmed as an extra type of feed.

And when was the concentrate feed box last calibrated?