Robotic Dairy Barn Tour
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2024
- A quick tour of our robotic dairy barn we built in 2018. We have two Delaval VMS classic robots and milk 80 cows just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. You can also follow us on Facebook @Linden Creek Dairy.
Great video that was a fine tour of your robot. Milkers I hope all the cows are doing great God bless
Great video man, excited to see the next one!
Thanks for the great tour and congratulations on your success so far!
Thank you we hope to pull through these low milk prices and farm for many more years to come!
nice vid . cant wait to see your feeding system
Looking forward to future videos!
i shared and will keep sharing
Great video! Please make more! Talk more about guided flow and what you feed the cows.
David Ouart thanks we have more made just trying to get them edited. I will be sure to do some more in-depth ones on the guided flow and our cow rations.
Best of luck to you.
Thank you
What you considered vertically integrating a creamery into your business as it would seem incredibly profitable to do so.
We actually did about 2 years ago that’s why we haven’t made many videos.
ANOTHER DAIRY FARM KILLER!!!!!
That’s funny I’ve yet to kill one single dairy farm.
Hi, my family dairy farms in southern MN. We currently milk 60 cows in a tie stall barn, but as I plan to return to the farm after school within the next year we want to make some changes which include potentially adding robotic milkers. I was hoping you could answer a couple questions for me.
1. Why did you decide to go with the DeLaval system?
2. What do you like and dislike about those robots?
3. How many cows were you milking before adding the robots?
I truly appreciate any information you can give!
We milk Holsteins and I want to incorporate cross breeding. What breeds do you use in your cross breeding rotation and how do you think they compare to your Holsteins in terms of production? Thanks again!
Hi nick I can answer any questions you have.
1. we went with delaval for 2 reasons one we wanted a guided flow system to reduce the need for pellet fed through the robots and 2 our dealer was very good. I would say the number one consideration for robots should be the dealer in your area.
2. as far as likes and dislikes I love the flexibility in our schedule if we need to get hay in or finish planting we don’t have to stop to milk. You also don’t have to stick to the same schedule every day. Dislikes would be cost to run each machine on average cost us $1200/month in maintenance/repairs your electric bill will go up and feed cost is 25% higher than a parlor due to the pellet.
3. We were milking 38 before the new barn. I was working off farm as a heavy equipment mechanic for around 5 years before I came back full time and my dad was getting ready to retire. We milked with 1 machine for a little over a year before we added the second one.
And as far as your other question on cross breeds our best ones are Holstein/ jersey or Holstein/brown swiss. As far as production goes our top cow for milk production in 2019 was a Holstein/jersey cross. If you use good genetics they make very good cows they always breed back very easy and are way more hardy than a pure bred animal. I kinda got away from cross breeding the past couple years but recently started doing it again.
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Thank you for sharing that information. It makes a big difference when you hear these things from other farmers. Good luck with everything moving forward!
Overall, are you pretty happy with the transition to robots?
We are very happy. Our cows are doing much better since the transition and the robots have been very reliable. It has also allowed us to make better quality forages since we do not have to stop planting or harvesting to go milk the cows. We also started bottling our own milk towards the end of last year which would not have been possible without the robots.
How many cows do you guys milk? We have a dairy farm in Ohio
We milk right around 80.
@@therobotdairyfarmer do u raise beef cattle
@@calebmanuel17 we breed a lot of our herd to angus. We do raise about 12 cross steers a year then I have a local buyer who buys the rest to raise on his farm.
wat is the price for the sawdust?
We run sand in our barn when we priced sawdust it was around $2300 for a load and we would need a load a month. I go through two tri axle loads of sand a month And it runs me right around $1200
Hello, im looking into robot farming and would like to talk shop and numbers with you. If email is okay we can do that. Id appreciate any insight you could give us. Thanks
Sorry I missed your comment we had a crazy couple days you can email me at lindencreekdairyllc@gmail.com
Very vague and not very interesting or informative....I would focus less on the word ROBOT and talk dairying.