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steve(ill) 
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Posted: 02 Sep 2021 at 1:10pm |
I know very little about dairy cow operation. Came in to day and they had a ROTARY MILKER on the History Channel... So i looked it up on You Tube.. Never saw one before. Quite Impressive.
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Tbone95
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Posted: 02 Sep 2021 at 1:17pm |
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Yeah, there's an amazing amount of money at work right there. There's an operation about 60 miles north of here. Not sure of the scale of things, but I think it might make that one look small, the flow of cows in and out is almost constant 24 hours, the feed mixing, feeding, production records, day of lactation all automatic.
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Posted: 02 Sep 2021 at 1:18pm |
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Eyeballing a cow length to the center, I would now say it's probably the same size as that one.
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Posted: 02 Sep 2021 at 1:27pm |
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Looks like about 50 cows on the circle... I think the guy on the show said it took 7 minutes to milk a cow !
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Posted: 02 Sep 2021 at 2:20pm |
Some of the early ones were floated on water to reduce friction. but I never liked the thought of those that put the milkers on from the back side... Now they have auto wash and auto attach and auto detach and all that. Just think if they lose their electricity and the generator doesn't start. Years back I was reading of a california dairy that installed a system to put a short flush through the milkers to catch the 2 oz of milk between the cows and then rinsed the milker units... the number of cows to milk - 3600, milked 3X a day equated to 7200 oz. or 450 pounds or 52 gallons of saved milk. and to think at one time farms were about 30-40 cows to support a family... and then they went to 60 and 80 and 100... to 200 -250 size and jumped to 500 and now a 1000 is a small peanut size dairy.... a 1000 cow dairy basically taken over the place of 25 40 cow farms. or 25 family farms that are no more. Our township has only two 35 cow farmers left. and one has quit and this summer and the other he doesn't exactly know when he will pull the plug, but pretty soon the way he talks.
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Posted: 02 Sep 2021 at 4:51pm |
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One not far from here, holds 65 cows, one man to operate to take care of automation that fails, our tractor club got the tour, very interesting. Milk about 20 hours a day, and cleaning between milkings.
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Posted: 02 Sep 2021 at 6:06pm |
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Some of the early ones were floated on water to reduce friction. but I never liked the thought of those that put the milkers on from the back side... Now they have auto wash and auto attach and auto detach and all that. Just think if they lose their electricity and the generator doesn't start. Years back I was reading of a california dairy that installed a system to put a short flush through the milkers to catch the 2 oz of milk between the cows and then rinsed the milker units... the number of cows to milk - 3600, milked 3X a day equated to 7200 oz. or 450 pounds or 52 gallons of saved milk. and to think at one time farms were about 30-40 cows to support a family... and then they went to 60 and 80 and 100... to 200 -250 size and jumped to 500 and now a 1000 is a small peanut size dairy.... a 1000 cow dairy basically taken over the place of 25 40 cow farms. or 25 family farms that are no more. Our township has only two 35 cow farmers left. and one has quit and this summer and the other he doesn't exactly know when he will pull the plug, but pretty soon the way he talks. |
Ah hecky durn!! Great Uncle and Aunt hand milked a dozen every morning and evening EVERY Day plus all the other work, set out four Milk Cans and one cream can in the cooling trough with the cistern pump keeping the water changed out until picked up
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Posted: 02 Sep 2021 at 6:22pm |
There are a couple rotary parlors in our area, but they are older.
The newest ones, in our area, are either parallel, rapid exit parlors or robotic milkers. The parallel parlors are ones that cows are milked between their legs. When all onr group is done, the cows walk straight out.
One farm near us, that milks about 2500 cows (three times per day) has a double 48 parallel parlor. In the summer, the front (glass) doors are open and you can watch them milk. (I used to take the grandkids when they were younger.) They turn over both sides (96 cows) every 14 minutes.
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Posted: 02 Sep 2021 at 6:24pm |
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Couple by me are 100 cow. Newest generation have robot units so they only need one person in the parlor for emergencies.
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Posted: 02 Sep 2021 at 6:26pm |
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I am the last tie stall barn on the milk truck
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Posted: 02 Sep 2021 at 6:33pm |
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Then there's the computerized versions, cow walks in, no human contact!
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Posted: 02 Sep 2021 at 9:47pm |
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My father milked 30 cows twice a day . 2 rows of 15 facing each other. He hung a belt over their backs and hung the milking machine under . Carried the milk to 10 gallon cans . Poured through a filter into the cans . When the bottlers stopped accepting 10 gallon cans my dad said it was the end of the small family farm . As AllisChalmers catered to the small farm it may of indirectly aided in its demise.
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Posted: 03 Sep 2021 at 12:38am |
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My cousin has one of those Lely Astronaut parlors. Very interesting to wqatch all done by computer, laser and air.
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Posted: 03 Sep 2021 at 5:26am |
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My cousin has one of those Lely Astronaut parlors. Very interesting to wqatch all done by computer, laser and air. |
My worry, with all this automation, is what happens when something goes wrong? How do you have a backup plan for an operation that big?
With all those cows to milk, a major breakdown could be catastrophic.
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Posted: 03 Sep 2021 at 8:45am |
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I am wondering what happens if a cow decides she doesn't want to get into the milking stall. Can't comprehend how all that operation can be automated. Seems to go against the idea of "contented cows".
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Posted: 03 Sep 2021 at 10:16am |
I grew up hand milking for family use and we had the cream seperator and what we didn't use in the house went to hogs. No matter how much you wash and bleach the place smells like sour milk. One of the happiest days of my life was when the old cows were retired and I no longer had to deal with that. But, yes automated milking is quite impressive, as long as someone else has to do it. 
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Posted: 03 Sep 2021 at 10:47am |
Recently a large Dairy in Lenawee County had a electrical fire in their Milking Parlor. They lost 30 some cows and the remainder were sent to other dairies across the State with some as far north as Mt. Pleasant. https://www.toledoblade.com/local/animals/2021/07/07/major-blaze-destroys-lenawee-county-cafo-building-burns-30-to-40-cows-to-death/stories/20210707136
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Posted: 03 Sep 2021 at 1:04pm |
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one day i was contacted by a neighbor to do his chores for a week, i agree'd and went to his place to get a low down. one thing to be done was to hand milk a cow to feed a calf and a few cats. i have NEVER milked a cow in my life! he told me to play country music on the radio up above the stall cuz she don't like rock'n'roll! he showed me how, had me try it, well he had lots more milk in his bucket than i did! he said i'd get the hang of it! and i did, i got pretty good nuff that i could squirt a cat in the doorway and also nailed the old lady.....ooooops.....i mean the loving wife as she walked in the door! it was fun, but sure did feel sorry for all the old timers that had to do it that way all their life!
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Posted: 04 Sep 2021 at 11:25am |
shameless dude wrote:
one day i was contacted by a neighbor to do his chores for a week, i agree'd and went to his place to get a low down. one thing to be done was to hand milk a cow to feed a calf and a few cats. i have NEVER milked a cow in my life! he told me to play country music on the radio up above the stall cuz she don't like rock'n'roll! he showed me how, had me try it, well he had lots more milk in his bucket than i did! he said i'd get the hang of it! and i did, i got pretty good nuff that i could squirt a cat in the doorway and also nailed the old lady.....ooooops.....i mean the loving wife as she walked in the door! it was fun, but sure did feel sorry for all the old timers that had to do it that way all their life! |
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I would of been very disappointed in you if the loving wife would of not got it.
