Our plans to install two new Lely A3 robotic milking systems and a building to house them are under way. The benefits of the robots will be the ability to track milk production with every quarter separately being recorded with milking. This will allow me to catch sick cows quicker; it also checks for high somatic cell in each quarter every milking. Another feature that will help with management will be the upgrade to pedometer tags to help with heat detection; full body weight is also recorded every time the cow walks into the robot. The units average 2.7 to 3.2 milkings per day so we will be able to increase the milk production because now we only milk twice a day. The main reason for wanting to install them is the poor reliability of our employees over the past six years has been very stressful.
Check back each week to watch the progress of our development!