The shop where we always buy our fresh cheese, (Ruurhoeve in vershof Bladel) have their own farm with cows. Yesterday they got their first brand new milking robot (Lely type). We were lucky to see it in operation.
It was teaching itself the specifics of each cow, in close cooperation with the farmer and 2 engineers from Lely.
And also of course the cows have to get used to it. Some are still scared a little bit of the robot. But some other cows like it and already went 5 times in 1 day to the milking robot.
Now each cow can more or less milk itself, it does not have to wait for the fixed times of 600 or 1800hrs. The farmer only has to concentrate on health of his cows. The robot automatically gives alarms if a cow did not come within 1 day or if it gives not the normal amount of milk.
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