The original idea of the milking robot was to free the human being from the pressure of performing such a difficult task. It was not a minor issue because in all the world is increasing year after year the difficulty in hiring people interested in the life of the milker. Live among the dung (washing and milking cows), the mud, the physical exposure to the temporal and schedules to the wrong during 100% of the year's days (no holidays or weekend), among other things, force you to agree to a high remuneration tambero (in most cases a % on the sale of milk). Having achieved a great person and committed to fill the position, then, was to observe the high rotation of the team of helpers pit remaining to whom a salary ends up not convincing. This is not a minor detail because it seriously limits to obtain productive results projected depending on the production model. El ordeñe robótico libera al hombre de todo esto permitiéndole organizar el trabajo directamente en horarios de oficina, mientras las máquinas se ocupan del resto. Interesante ver cómo cambia el uso del tiempo con la incorporación de la tecnología en el siguiente gráfico, adaptado de un trabajo de García et al 2015, donde se produce un enroque de uso del tiempo desde la rutina de ordeñar las vacas hacia el análisis de datos y del negocio:
But there was still a job to be done and was going to look for the cows and bring them to the milking! ...so the question arose “what...will not come solitas to be milked...?”
“ ...and the cows came!”
The concept of the “milk volunteer” for eating in the robot, the animal quickly get used in rumbear to the milking machine automatically. After hundreds of years where the cows were moving at the pace human appears a system of dairy production where everything moves at the pace of the cow. Never seen...a new paradigm of the dairy. All the technical settings for the operation and functioning of the robot is done by understanding and respecting the behavior of the animal. Finally, the cow is free to do as you want...if you want to sleep, sleep; if you want to eat, eats, and if you want milked, milking. Just the reverse of what is normally done today on the drums.
Rebellion on the farm
El sistema de ordeño robótico voluntario (ORV) permite a la vaca la “libertad de manifestar su comportamiento natural” (la 5° freedom indicated by the World Organisation for Animal Health to describe ANIMAL WELFARE). And here start the surprises: cows don't choose milked in the early morning and it is very marked in the pastoral systems robotic...cows handled at other times.
After surprising the behavior of the cow to the supply of food that should be available permanently to when each cow is close to the track power, the use of the robotito arrimador, with 6-to 8-past daily, it is essential for this to happen. The interaction between the use of forages in the mixer and the consumption of concentrate in the robot ignite the research for the formulation of the RPM (ration partially mixed) and the configuration of supply of food in the robot.
The first impact of the freedoms of the cow is on the health, resulting in more longevity, is cited minimally +1 breastfeeding more.
[twitter-follow screen_name=’dairylando’]