Milking capacity of milking robots

Abstract

The research has been carried out on the dairy farm „Līgotnes”of the Latvia University of Agriculture training and research farm „Vecauce”. On this farm animals are housed in four separate sections, in one of them the cows are milked with two company DeLaval robots VMS-2007. During the research there were 88 cows in this group. It was planned to state the milking capacity per milking robot a day and the milking capacity per milking robot per hours a day as well as the lactation phases of the cows, the milking frequency per day. The research results show that one robot milks in the average 129 cows per day, but every hour a day – 5,5 cows. The cows being in the fi rst third of lactation are milked averagely 3,7 times, in the second third – 3,0 times, but in the third – 2,1 times