MILKING COWS IN A 60 STALL ROTARY PARLOUR!!!
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- Опубліковано 10 гру 2021
- In this video I show the milking process from getting the parlour ready and milking 340 cows to washing up.
My name is Mark Collins. From growing up and working on my family farm in Ireland, I have developed a strong passion for agriculture. As people become more concerned about where their food comes from, it is vitality important that the right information is at their fingertips. Through my Instagram account and UA-cam channel, I show the day-to-day running of our grass based dairy farm and how we work hard to continuously improve our business in-line with our focus on Social, Economic and Environmental Sustainability.
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Machines or not, the farmer’s life ain’t easy, hat’s off.
I'm in New Zealand and just got in from morning milking 308 cows, then watched an Irish man milk cows while I have breakfast.
I must love cows LOL
Hahaha same here, on what's meant to be a day off the farm I've gone and milked cows with a mate and now I watch this
Excellent very informational
Great job Mark milked on a 60 unit dairymaster myself for a few years unreal the amount of cows that can be milked efficiently in a short space of time. Friend of mine done a lot work on your parlour spoke very highly of the set up. Great job wel done
Great to see the milking machine in action ,love the channel keep it up 👍
Zaujímavé video 👌👌👌
WOW awesome video. You guys have alot to remember to do. Definitely work for your money. Thank you for all you do to deliver a fresh product to people🧑🎄🎄🎁
Great. Video. First time viewer and now subscribed. Thanks for sharing.
Wow, that was mesmerizing. Good job.
Wow fancy milking parlour….. never seen a GEA one before!!! 60 units?? God your heard must be milked in jig time 🤔😁 great video lad very interesting!!!
Ya 60 units 👍 would normally milk 300/350 cows an hour
That's quite the process!
Fair play to you starting up doing the videos, takes a lot of time 😊
Thank you
@@MCMilkingIt 🐄🐄 yes now
Looks like a smooth flow, cow traffic is very important want a nice smooth cow flow to make it efficient, keep up the great work 👌
Some operation. Very interesting video. 👍🏻
A busy man
Those filters are reusable I have a Gea too and get couple of weeks out of those filters just rinse off well after first wash and put back in
The hot water and detergent bring them up like new again!
serious operation
Yee must have a big Esb bill have got any solar panels to generate some one Esb
No solar panels yet but will probably put some up in the furture
Just seen your video. Excellent setup where are you based. Very interesting video
Tipperary
Have GEA plant myself. Had problems milking out heifers. Shorten time till milk meter meters. Much better. Are those Lic cows
I turned mine down a bit too 👍 yes we use some LIC bulls
Milk the odd time in a new GEA herringbone, Lovely parlour, Only criticismsare NF at this time of year and also find the vacuum to be a little low but that can probably be adjusted.
Ya the NF is a pain at the back end
How does the cow get back of this rotary system after milking ? I don't think that it get back just after opening the (door). There must be some electric pulse or signal or something like this that push the cow to get of the machine.
No most cows will back off by themselves. When they do it once they know then. We do have an empty drum hanging down infront incase the cows aren't paying attention
great video, we are putting a 54 bale waikato in currently which will look very similar to this parlour. would be great to have a video looking at all your rails and locations of rails in the yard for some ideas. at the entrance to the deck do you find cows flow in nice on an angled front or not? we are being advised to have it square but that just doesn't seem logical. would be nice to scratch your head a bit and see what if there are areas you would change or anything else etc.
Are you on Instagram?
No I'm not only use UA-cam
Send me a DM on this
@@MCMilkingIt sorry I'm being bad at replying haha. Trying to figure our how to dm you haha
It's probably a soft start motor that turns the parlour. A two stage plate cooler would suit you if you don't already have one. It cools with running water and ice Bank water.
Ya we have the 2 stage plate cooler 👍
Some parlour. So the retaining bar is up all the time unless a cow needs a second rotation? I thought it would be down until just before exit
Yes correct. A lot of other brands use gravity to drop the retention bar every time and the ram to lift it everytime. Whereas here a spring holds it up and a ram brings it down when it is needed. So it's not working as much so less wear and tear
A MAGNIFICENT VIDEO ,HOW DIFFICULT ,And how long does it take to train newly calved heifers into the routine
Very quick now, once the get on once they are flying it 👍 and a lot go on handy enough first time
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Подскажите пожалуйста, почему Вы не обрабатывает вымя коровы перед доением?
well...that setup cost a couple bucks...friendly banker?
Decades of hard work and yes, lots of debt 😅
Discovering your channel .. great video.. 340 /390 cows .. means how many litres of gallons of milk produced per per year ? Cow performance to get an idea ? Very impressive…
About 6,000litres/cow. 480kgMS/cow
what is the blue drum on a rope for
Encourage the cows to get off/let them know it's where they get off
It's a great setup. Just wondering why ye would have this parlour instead of robots? Would there not be less work with robots?
Robots would be a lot more expensive for our herd size and in my opinion robots don't suit our system as it is a spring calving grass-based system
@@MCMilkingItthanks for reply. am a sheep farmer so wouldn't have an idea about the cost or other factors involved. Just follow you and two other dairy farmers on UA-cam and enjoy the videos.
Robots are superficial when it comes to labour. On the face they look like they are less work but there is more cow management behind the scenes and they are 24/7 work too
@@Jp12987 thanks for the comment
Amazing job 👏 I'm experienced in dairy farming. Is there any possibility to work with you ?
how you manage the maintenance of the milking equitment ?
Greetings. Why do you need antennas at the entrance if you have antennas at every place?
The antennas at the entrance didn't work so they had to put them in every stall after
Do you do the milking by yourself or do you have a helper
One person milking
No offence but when you have that much spent on a parlour surely that pallet could be replaced with something better.
Haha I always get that 🤣 will make up some gate for it in the future
Every self-respecting Irish farmer has to use a pallet at least once a day. I don't see any baling twine though.
Some job
What’s the purpose of the bucket on the rope at the start of the parlour ?
To get the cows to back off the platform.
@@kevinbiggs7428 that's exactly it 👍
What kgMS do you peak at and what production does a cow do per season?
Peak at about 2.3-2.4kgMS/cow and produce about 510kgMS/cow per season.
What encourages the cows to leave the platform and do ye feed meal while milking
We do feed meal, it's training really but the cows knowing they going back out to grass
@@MCMilkingIt thanks
Why the blue barl on the platform. Thanks.
Broken unit
How do you get your cows to come on to the parlor of their own free will
How long does it take to do a full rotation and how long does it take to do the 400 cows plus are you on snapchat
Depends on how much milk the cows have and that but usually between 6 and 8 minutes per rotation. Would normally milk 300/350 cows an hour and when really moving can get that up to 400 cows an hour
Sorry not on snapchat, just Instagram
Do you always use so much water. Do you recycle
We use the water from the plate cooler to wash down
Which company milk parlour you have ?
GEA
@@MCMilkingIt thnx for your quick reply 🙏🙏
Wiy do you have stalls booked
The ones with barrels are broken
What are your kgs per cow this year
450kg/MS
Why dont the cows have full length tails?
That's their natural tail length. We trim the hair to keep the udder clean
What happens to the male calves?
All the male and beef calves are sold either directly from our farm or through the mart
Did you ever think it would have been easier with robots
Robots would be a lot more expensive for our herd size and in my opinion they don't suit our spring calving grass based system
@@MCMilkingIt I was just wondering because I work at a 10 a side parlour it gets quite tiring when you have A lot of cows
i am from the Philippines im interested to work in your company
isnt this dangerous for the cows? What if they get stuck while trying to get out but if they are to slow
There are safety switches and sensors to stop the platform if a cow isn't on or off fully
@@MCMilkingIt thanks for your reply. I am going to subscribe to your channel. Greetings from Turkey
good day how to apply in your company?
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equipment looks dirty
Why don’t you clean the utter and strip the utter and dip the utter. your milk filter looked very bad!!
We don't think it is necessary. The teats are clean enough when they are out on grass.
Every dairy I have seen, and my own, use this Standard practice. Plus your cows don’t look that clean. and you should consider cleaning your milk filter more often
@@Geco2011 milk filter is changed every milking
Thanks for replying