We are currently milking 95 in a outdated tiestall barn. We have been looking at a few different robotic barns. I would like to see a guided-flow setup in person sometime. Do you allow visitors on your farm?
20 to 25lbs of pellets per day on free flow? Out of are 200 lely robots we service are average is 14lbs of pellets per day. We have some farms down on 10lbs per day. How big is your average fetch list
Milking 80 cows we only fetch 1 time a day first thing in the morning and it might be 3 or 4 cows most of the time its either tail end cows or they have some sort of problem.
We don’t have much trouble with cows turning around if we keep the stalls full of sand. I love the green stalls. The first six months we hated them we had cows turning around and laying way to far forward. Once we made some adjustments it’s been good ever since.
@@therobotdairyfarmer thanks for the reply. I like the idea of the green stalls but heard some farms didnt like them. We milk cows with robots in Eastern pa
@@jessebitler8956 ya if they’re not set up right they can be a nightmare I think the floating neck rail messes with people thinking they need to be at the same height as a normal neck rail.
@@mcleanfarmsryan3897 we were in a situation where we had to build a brand new facility. The barn we used to milk in was built in the 1800’s and couldn’t be expanded. We priced parlors and robots and they were close in price. We installed our first robot in 2018 and then I found a good deal on a used one and installed the second one in 2019. They definitely cost more to run than a parlor but it allows us to do everything ourselves without hired help. We recently started bottling milk in farm and we would not be able to do that without hiring someone without the robots.
@@therobotdairyfarmer okay yeah I am in the spot where I am the only one in my family where I want to dairy farm so I was looking at options so I wasn’t absolutely burn out and a buddy is switch to robots and everyone he talked to said he needed more than 110 cows but it just me and him
We’re feeding roughly 40lbs of dm in the tmr currently. We are very short on hay this year so we have to feed conservatively. Lbs of milk our herd average is 48lbs with a 5.2% fat and 3.5% protein. If we could feed more I’d say we’d be around 55lbs which is where we normally average. As far as cost the only thing we add to the tmr that we don’t grow is bagged mineral.
@@therobotdairyfarmer thanks for your andswer. You said that your are botteling your Milk, i did that 35years ago in Brittany France. But the Best saling incomes was selling farm made yogourt. We had 3 différentes sorts. It was fun and good price. Actually the Milk factory pay 335 €per metric tonne Of standard Milk. What is the price Over in Pennsylvania today ?
@@didierfertil6334 the pay price from the dairy that buys our excess is $20 per 100lbs. The milk we sell off the farm we get $5.50 a gallon. We plan to start making butter early next year and are currently in discussions with a cheese maker to start making cheese from our milk.
@@therobotdairyfarmer from my expérience making butter is a waist Of time you will make better profit just selling cream or even ice cream. But yogourt will be the cheapest to do and the most profitable. About chesse in the US, i dont know if People like real cheese like we do on France, first it's an other job an other sciences to make a Brie de Meaux, a camenbert or a tomme de Savoie. It take 3years to get à batchelor degré at Poligny cheese institut in the Jura.. Bye the way, do you know that we feed yogourt to calfs to avoid deareas. It's very efficient too.
We are currently milking 95 in a outdated tiestall barn. We have been looking at a few different robotic barns. I would like to see a guided-flow setup in person sometime. Do you allow visitors on your farm?
We do allow visitors. You can look up linden creek dairy of Facebook or online to set something up.
20 to 25lbs of pellets per day on free flow? Out of are 200 lely robots we service are average is 14lbs of pellets per day. We have some farms down on 10lbs per day. How big is your average fetch list
Milking 80 cows we only fetch 1 time a day first thing in the morning and it might be 3 or 4 cows most of the time its either tail end cows or they have some sort of problem.
Do you have trouble with the jerseys turning around in the stalls? How do you like the green poly stall dividers?
We don’t have much trouble with cows turning around if we keep the stalls full of sand. I love the green stalls. The first six months we hated them we had cows turning around and laying way to far forward. Once we made some adjustments it’s been good ever since.
@@therobotdairyfarmer thanks for the reply. I like the idea of the green stalls but heard some farms didnt like them. We milk cows with robots in Eastern pa
@@jessebitler8956 ya if they’re not set up right they can be a nightmare I think the floating neck rail messes with people thinking they need to be at the same height as a normal neck rail.
What are the dimensions of your free stall barn? How many stalls do you have ?
Our free stall is 68x156 and we have 65 stalls.
Man love the videos I am Definitely subscribing and if you don’t mind me asking many cows are you milking
We milk around 80 cows.
@@therobotdairyfarmer only 80 I have always been told you need more to justify robots but that definitely has me think from my farm
@@mcleanfarmsryan3897 we were in a situation where we had to build a brand new facility. The barn we used to milk in was built in the 1800’s and couldn’t be expanded. We priced parlors and robots and they were close in price. We installed our first robot in 2018 and then I found a good deal on a used one and installed the second one in 2019. They definitely cost more to run than a parlor but it allows us to do everything ourselves without hired help. We recently started bottling milk in farm and we would not be able to do that without hiring someone without the robots.
@@mcleanfarmsryan3897 if your on Facebook you can follow us on there @ linden creek dairy we post a lot more to that page.
@@therobotdairyfarmer okay yeah I am in the spot where I am the only one in my family where I want to dairy farm so I was looking at options so I wasn’t absolutely burn out and a buddy is switch to robots and everyone he talked to said he needed more than 110 cows but it just me and him
Concidering your TMR howmany pounds Of DM are you feeding per Day, for how many pounds Of Milk ?
Do you know your TMR Cost ?
We’re feeding roughly 40lbs of dm in the tmr currently. We are very short on hay this year so we have to feed conservatively. Lbs of milk our herd average is 48lbs with a 5.2% fat and 3.5% protein. If we could feed more I’d say we’d be around 55lbs which is where we normally average. As far as cost the only thing we add to the tmr that we don’t grow is bagged mineral.
@@therobotdairyfarmer thanks for your andswer. You said that your are botteling your Milk, i did that 35years ago in Brittany France. But the Best saling incomes was selling farm made yogourt. We had 3 différentes sorts. It was fun and good price. Actually the Milk factory pay 335 €per metric tonne Of standard Milk. What is the price Over in Pennsylvania today ?
@@didierfertil6334 the pay price from the dairy that buys our excess is $20 per 100lbs. The milk we sell off the farm we get $5.50 a gallon. We plan to start making butter early next year and are currently in discussions with a cheese maker to start making cheese from our milk.
@@therobotdairyfarmer from my expérience making butter is a waist Of time you will make better profit just selling cream or even ice cream. But yogourt will be the cheapest to do and the most profitable. About chesse in the US, i dont know if People like real cheese like we do on France, first it's an other job an other sciences to make a Brie de Meaux, a camenbert or a tomme de Savoie. It take 3years to get à batchelor degré at Poligny cheese institut in the Jura..
Bye the way, do you know that we feed yogourt to calfs to avoid deareas. It's very efficient too.