Just subscribed to your channel. Impressive!! A few questions, I see you have a pair of automatic milkers, how big is your milking herd and what is the limit for 2 machines?
Thank you so much for subscribing. It means a lot to us. Thank you. We milk 110 cows. That is the max of the building. The max amount of cows for us and is generally the amount on farm as an average is 55/robot Someone also ask a few questions. They may be helpful to you so I will copy and post below. It may help. Hi been watching your videos on UA-cam. I'm looking at getting 2 robots to do the milking for myself is there anything different you'd do if you could do it all over? Shed selection why did you go for outside feeder rather than a center passageway? I was thinking more of having a center passage with the younger batch of cows on one side and older cows on the other? Am I wrong in doing this? My reply Edison, First of all, Thank you so much for watching my videos, Its nice to know there is people interested in what we do. I get asked about our shed a lot. On shed design, It has to be down to each farm individually. Our shed is what works for us. Our Green 'eld sight where we built it on has a slop and is not level ground. I would have preferred a wider building for a few reasons. Out building is longer and narrower because to build a wider building we would have needed a lot of ground 'll on the lower side, Thow this is possible it would have cost a small fortune in many ways. The shed we have works brilliantly and we feel it was the correct choice for us dew to the lay of the land.My perfect Choice of building would be wider and not as long. To highlight some reasons. I would de'nitely need an area behind the Robots. In this area you would split it into 2 or 3 sections. 3 better. 2 loose box areas and 1 bank of cubicles, all as individual areas. This works as a hospital area and fresh cow calving area. Cubicles can assist in training heifers. 9I have a video on that) Feeding. I think this is down to what would work for your farm and its location. Outside feeding was our choice because the back of the shed is as I describe earlier. As our shed is long we have just about enough feed space for 105 cows at once. The other 15 cows (if the shed is at max) would in theory have nowhere to feed. Here the big BUT!! This is simply mot a problem as with Robots things are di*erent. We have constant feed Infront of the cows so they are never ever hungry. The perfect situation is you should have, when fresh feed is presented to the cows, about 80% will stand and feed, 15% will not bother standing up to feed as there are happy and full (Just Chilling) then maybe 5% will visit the robots for milking. These are usual the more timid cows. They learn to know when is there best time to visit. Feeding on both sides of the shed (Outside) More feed space is better so that will work. The other thing is something that gets overlooked is ventilation. Open shed each side is brilliant but will depend on your location and weather. Cows will function and work in very cold conditions -5 up to 12 degrees would be a perfect range. Frizzing wind would be a problem. They don’t like that.Centre feed passage works very well. Again, it down to choice and location, ventilation if the shed is closed in. Summer heat can be a very big problem. They don’t like it at all. Our shed is Back to the prevailing wind. Through air Qow is generally good, but not the best. We are putting in fans this year to help with air Qow and circulation.I know you thoughts in, What is good and What is Bad. The best advice is what the cow give you. Walk around your cows now and look at them in a very quiet shed with no one around and think IF I WAS A COW WHAT WOULD I WANT??? Think about the cow before anything ells. Don’t thing about robots because I can guarantee you they will work 100% BUT only if the cow is happy. Design a cows 've star accommodation and add as much comfort as possible and cows will fight to visit the robots
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Just subscribed to your channel. Impressive!!
A few questions, I see you have a pair of automatic milkers, how big is your milking herd and what is the limit for 2 machines?
Thank you so much for subscribing. It means a lot to us. Thank you.
We milk 110 cows. That is the max of the building. The max amount of cows for us and is generally the amount on farm as an average is 55/robot
Someone also ask a few questions. They may be helpful to you so I will copy and post below. It may help.
Hi been watching your videos on UA-cam. I'm looking at getting 2 robots to do the milking for myself is there anything different you'd do if you could do it all over? Shed selection why did you go for outside feeder rather than a center passageway? I was thinking more of having a center passage with the younger batch of cows on one side and older cows on the other? Am I wrong in doing this?
My reply
Edison, First of all, Thank you so much for watching my videos, Its nice to know there is people interested in what we do. I get asked about our shed a lot. On shed design, It has to be down to each farm individually. Our shed is what works for us. Our Green 'eld sight where we built it on has a slop and is not level ground. I would have preferred a wider building for a few reasons. Out building is longer and narrower because to build a wider building we would have needed a lot of ground 'll on the lower side, Thow this is possible it would have cost a small fortune in many ways. The shed we have works brilliantly and we feel it was the correct choice for us dew to the lay of the land.My perfect Choice of building would be wider and not as long. To highlight some reasons. I would de'nitely need an area behind the Robots. In this area you would split it into 2 or 3 sections. 3 better. 2 loose box areas and 1 bank of cubicles, all as individual areas. This works as a hospital area and fresh cow calving area. Cubicles can assist in training heifers. 9I have a video on that) Feeding. I think this is down to what would work for your farm and its location. Outside feeding was our choice because the back of the shed is as I describe earlier. As our shed is long we have just about enough feed space for 105 cows at once. The other 15 cows (if the shed is at max) would in theory have nowhere to feed. Here the big BUT!! This is simply mot a problem as with Robots things are di*erent. We have constant feed Infront of the cows so they are never ever hungry. The perfect situation is you should have, when fresh feed is presented to the cows, about 80% will stand and feed, 15% will not bother standing up to feed as there are happy and full (Just Chilling) then maybe 5% will visit the robots for milking. These are usual the more timid cows. They learn to know when is there best time to visit.
Feeding on both sides of the shed (Outside) More feed space is better so that will work. The other thing is something that gets overlooked is ventilation. Open shed each side is brilliant but will depend on your location and weather. Cows will function and work in very cold conditions -5 up to 12 degrees would be a perfect range. Frizzing wind would be a problem. They don’t like that.Centre feed passage works very well. Again, it down to choice and location, ventilation if the shed is closed in. Summer heat can be a very big problem. They don’t like it at all. Our shed is Back to the prevailing wind. Through air Qow is generally good, but not the best. We are putting in fans this year to help with air Qow and circulation.I know you thoughts in, What is good and What is Bad. The best advice is what the cow give you. Walk around your cows now and look at them in a very quiet shed with no one around and think IF I WAS A COW WHAT WOULD I WANT??? Think about the cow before anything ells. Don’t thing about robots because I can guarantee you they will work 100% BUT only if the cow is happy. Design a cows 've star accommodation and add as much comfort as possible and cows will fight to visit the robots
hope you get a good deal on one the time it must save plus the health of the cows wish you all the luck like subscribe and share
@@richard3008 thank you. Hopefully it could be on the cards for next year 👍