Failed Milking!

[@mennoreuten1563]

To bad ,it will be along drive from the netherlands, wish you and youre family all the best and hope you have a nice day on the 30,thanks and greetings from a Dutch dairyfarmer

[@HollcanaFarm]

@@mennoreuten1563 Thank you very much!

[@Thomas93712]

Hi,some Cows need a little longer. Press reconnect clean the 3 d cam before clean laser before Stand outside at the cow , i give them a little tmr in the trough i think the back teats are a little to short, and they are in the shadow of the front, but when she stands calm shoud be good in a couple days

[@HollcanaFarm]

@@Thomas93712 Thanks for the advice! As for standing still she was always like this in the other barn too. Just doesn't stand still. It's not because of the robot. We will give what you say a try. It's funny because if she gets kicked out and we bring her around again it will often go right on the first try.

[@michaellee695]

We put a piece of black plastic on the panel next to the control panel about 18” wide and long enough to reach the floor. This keeps the cows from backing up and looking under the machine. When the cows keep stepping forward and backward to look under machine, it’s much harder for the machine to latch on.

[@HollcanaFarm]

@@michaellee695 Good idea! It's usually fine if they eat their pellets but when it takes that long they are done their pellets or the odd one can't settle down to eat.

[@melanieharrison7465]

Congrats on the new barn!nice to see small farms investing for the future. Best of luck!

[@bonniehibma3580]

Man, I am sorry for the trouble that you are having. Hopefully as time goes on it get better for you. This is suppose to make less work for you not more. Hopefully your service people are on top of it for you.

[@HollcanaFarm]

@@bonniehibma3580 Thank you! It is getting better and maybe we are too stubborn about weeding out the few cows that aren't going to work. If they go to the robot on their own it goes much better because they go more often. It's a fine line deciding when to let them figure it out and when to bring them to the robot.

[@steveketchum9836]

Did someone try to run it manually?

[@HollcanaFarm]

@steveketchum983 If you do a reconnect then you start from scratch and lose the memory. I have shut off one or two teats and then turned them on once the milk starts to flow. It is funny that it can fail and you put her through again and it gets it right away sometimes. I wonder if the udder is more ready then and easier to read? You can't actually do it completely manually. You can set the arm at the starting point and then press connect and it does the rest.

[@danielaubert9909]

Voilà plusieurs semaines que vous travaillez dans votre nouvelle étable, pouvez vous nous donner vos impressions ? Les points positifs négatifs. Les vaches semblent de plus en plus à l aise avec le robot et surtout très calme. bonne journée

[@HollcanaFarm]

I will try to answer your questions in a video soon. Thanks for asking!

[@danielaubert9909]

@HollcanaFarm merci ,j attend avec impatience votre vidéo

[@HollcanaFarm]

@danielaubert9909 tres bien!

[@pieterannekevisser8141]

I can't understand why she has so many problems connecting that cow

[@HollcanaFarm]

@@pieterannekevisser8141 I'm not sure either. She has a nice udder. She does move around quite a bit. There are far worse udders that it has no problem with. Next time our Lely tech comes I'm going to put this cow through and see what she thinks. Crossed teats on another cow is no problem at all. It seems like reverse tilt and or udders with the front teats right in front of the rear teats is the hardest.

[@harveypenner2386]

great video!

[@randybennett5417]

The David Brown works good on that job.

[@HollcanaFarm]

@@randybennett5417 Yes, it does alright. It's nice to be able to give the old tractor an important job!

[@RodLichty]

Delaval would've had that cow milked long ago!!

[@garymork1380]

Would you explain that bedding pack long term do you ever clean it out also couldn’t the cows go outside while you spreading more bedding

[@HollcanaFarm]

@@garymork1380 It can be cleaned out once a year or maybe longer. It gradually breaks down because of the heat it makes from being cultivated and because we use wood shavings. If managed properly it is healthy and comfortable for the cows. No, the cows cannot go outside while we spread the bedding. In the winter it is definitely not an option. Maybe we will set that up for next year. It has gotten better since this video. He lowered the speed of the spreader. I will try to show the difference. Also it might help to have the curtain down on the one side to blow the dust away from them.

[@david19659]

Is the compost pack warm to the touch? That’s a lot of steam

[@HollcanaFarm]

@@david19659 if you dig down a bit it is hot. On top not so much.it only steams like that when we are cultivating it. Bringing the hot to the surface

[@perkirkegaardlemming720]

As an engineer, I have worked with waste and recycling for 30 years. We had a composting plant for garden waste and a sewage plant. The working environment is highly valued and inspected by the authorities. In the composting plant, the compost piles are turned regularly. The piles are in the open air. All work with compost must be carried out with respiratory protection. Tractors and trucks must be equipped with airtight cabins with filters for cleaning the air. Outside the cabin, the work is with respiratory protection. Composting takes place through biological processes with the formation of fungi, which are in the air as aerosols that are harmful to humans. Similar respiratory protection at sewage plants. The video of sawdust spreading makes alarm bells ring. It looks terrible with the steam from the compost in the cold air, but believe me, there are aerosols and dust in the air that are harmful to humans and animals, so seeing that respiratory protection is not used shakes me a little. Such a video on KZbin from Denmark will quickly result in a report to the authorities and a violation of the legislation on working environment. Apparently you do not have the same control over working environment or exemption if there are no employees. Is it necessary to use such fine sawdust or could a coarser grained sawdust do the same so that it is not so airborne. There could be ventilation while working in the compost mat. The fumes from the compost will contain aerosols. If you are a member of an agricultural advisory board, you could consult them and get some knowledge about handling work with the compost.

[@lorenplock8244]

I wonder how long it going to take for those new fan to catch on fire with all the dust buildup

[@HollcanaFarm]

@@lorenplock8244 No worries, there's nothing to burn. Everything that goes in the barn is special rated for the barn. We even had to have really special light switches rated for the barn even though they aren't near the cows or manure. These are barn fans where they expect dust.

[@BrianRuss-bx5hp]

Do you think there will be some cows that never adjust to being milked by the robot?

[@HollcanaFarm]

@@BrianRuss-bx5hp That is a possibilty but we will give them their best chance. We might wait to decide after they calve again.

[@kylehilmes8882]

Hello. What are your incompletes?

[@HollcanaFarm]

@@kylehilmes8882 We are at .5 refusals and 2 failures right now. I think the day of this video we had 6 failures. Mostly from 2 cows.

[@richardhoover7569]

That is one calm heifer. That made me mad watching her stand there calmly while that thing messed up. Did she get milked?

[@HollcanaFarm]

@@richardhoover7569 yes, she did. I know. My husband was talking about "sledgehammers!🥴The service guys came out to work on it. I hope it gets better. There are just two that we randomly have trouble with. I think they are cows that their udder has to be just the right fullness. Some people have to sell some cows because they just aren't made right for the robot. Sometimes calving again will fix it too.

[@jerryalexander1895]

@@HollcanaFarmIs she close enough to dry off? Are the pellets they get in robot metered so they can have some the whole time in there.

[@HollcanaFarm]

@@jerryalexander1895 The pellets are metered out a bit at a time but she runs out before she is done. She is 134 days pregnant which also means she doesn't get as many pellets. It's according to how much they milk and where they are in their lactation.

[@rk3739]

Are the cows on your fetch list, cows that are late in their lactation?

[@HollcanaFarm]

@@rk3739 Yes, the worst ones are or they are really old or they are a bit footsore from the new concrete. Its starting to get better. Down to 8-10 now

[@HollcanaFarm]

@@rk3739 also we hit 2.3 averaged milking/cow/day

[@rk3739]

@@HollcanaFarm ok nice, so definitely on the up and up. Hope for the future… how long before most of the cows were going in by themselves? 2 weeks?

[@HollcanaFarm]

@rk3739 More like 3-4 weeks