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Milkline

PhD. Gabriele Marchesi – Herd Management Specialist

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Summary

- Milkline Company;- Introduction;- Dairy farm technologies- Future consideration- Conclusion

Milkline Company

Born: 1968Head quake Located: Piacenza, Northen Italy;Milkline LSO: Russia and Romania;Dealer: France, Spain, Denmark, Germany, Bulgaria, Finland, Japan, Italy, Morocco

Born: 2013 (official data);150 cows in lactation;Farm tests

Introduction

http://www.milkline.com/

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Milking parlour – MADE in ITALY

Rotary;

Swing over;

Side by side;

Tandem;

Herringbone.

…Milking parlor ad hoc!!

Feeding station cow and calf

• Automatic feeding station per cows;• Automatic milk stations per calf;• Milk taxi: transport milk to the calf;• Igloo-system for outdoor calf barn.

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Hygiene line

Spare parts

• Milking units;• Milk unit components (Liners, cluster, teat cup..);• Pulsators and accessories;• Milk equipment (Milk buckets, components..);• Milk recording and mastitis detection.

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Dairy farm technologies

MAIN TOPICS

• Animal identification;• Milk Production;• Activity status;• Health status.

HERD MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE (+Smartphone App)

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Animal identification

- RFID;- Infra Red;- Long distance (Wireless).

Animal identification

The identification system is divided in two technologies:- Infra Red (IR);- Long Distance (LD)

The main differences are:- Reading distance of the tags (with LD we can reach 1ha);- Reading time (with LD the tags are read every 20min);- Improved technology;- New Rumination and activity approach;- LD is easier and faster to install then IR

LD partsBU500

(Cod. 0701150)

TAG H LD(Cod. 0701201)

IDU510(Cod. 0701153)

TAG HR LD(Cod. 0701202)

LD system benefits

- Predicting the time of calving is crucial for the health of newborn calves and their dams in difficult calving situations. Prediction also helps to prevent injuries to the newborn caused by the dam or the environment;

- Fast detection of Health disorder;- Health condition affect the rumination and by its monitoring

diseases are early detectable- The effectiveness of the treatment is evaluable through the

rumination monitoring - Reducing time for Heat detection;- The LD system with DFII offer to the farmer the possibility

to early detect feeding errors (groups report) and nutritional disorders (cow vs group);

- Send SMS or email to more than 8 user.

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Milk production

- Milking controllers – P4C Milkline

- Milk meter;- Additional sensors...check the

blood, mastitis, kicking off, protein, fat…

Summary P4C

• Introduction;• P4C - The Advanced Milking Control:

– Overmilking prevention;– Subclinical mastitis detection.

• P4C and DFII;• P4C - Codes

P4C – The Advanced Milking Control!

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P4C is composed by:

MilproP4C: Controller; Servopuls: Smart

pulsator;

Dynamic P4C: Cluster.

Individual Quarter Milking – The P4C

Goals:

1. Prevention: Skip Overmilking individually on quarters;

2. Early sub-clinical mastitis detection.

P4C - First Goal

Prevention: Skip Overmilking individually

on QuartersNo Hyperkeratosis!

Udder health - Overmilking

Overmilking

Hyperkeratosis Intramammary Infections (IMI)

(Rasmussen M.D., 2004)

P4C – Quarter Take Off

Detect milk ejection per each quarter;Advanced single quarter management pulsation;Semi take-off;Massage phase.

P4C Test at Kentucky University

(Sterret et al., 2009)

P4C – Second Goal

Mastitis detection at early stage: Subclinical Mastitis

P4C

Mastitis detection per single quarter;Real time data;Specific algorithm;Message display.

P4C Alarm Management Protocol

Mastitis AlertP4C CMT Positive!

Bacteriology Quarter

Monitoring

Farmer/Vet Evaluation Monitoring

Local Operative Protocol for

Mastitis Cases

Negative

Always evaluate if the cow the opportunity of medical intervention

P4C and DFII

• P4C report: level of infection per each single quarter in each milking shift;

• P4C report + Health report: increase the mastitis detection;

• P4C report and milk production variation report: that helps to understand the level of mastitis;

• All the historical data are stored on the DFII server.

P4C

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Activity status

- Heat detection;- Good insemination time;- Reproduction problems;- …

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Heat detection

- Heatime S&A system;- DataFlow 2 (with herd management);- Other system in the market…

HOUR OF THE DAY HEATS (% total)

06 – 12 22

12 –18 10

18 – 24 25

24 – 06 43

(from Monetti, 1998)

COW HEAT DISTRIBUTION DURING THE DAY

Heat detection challenge: time for estrus detection

Today’s cows shows fewer signs of estrus and for shorter duration.

1 Michaelis et al., 2013 41 (G): 159 – 165

Heat detection challenge: time for estrus detection

“It has been demonstrated that the average estrus period lasts for about 9.5 hours during which the cow mounts other cows 10.1 times on average. Only six mounts lasted more than 2 seconds. These data illustrate that the opportunity to identify a cow in estrus is relatively short (i. e., 24.1 seconds per 21 day cycle).»

Survey question andanswer categories

Herd size

small (n= 136) medium (n= 76) large (n= 12) all herds (n= 219)

68 ± 15 cows 124 ± 24 cows 257 ± 87cows 96 ± 54 cows

Heat detection system before after before after before after before afterTime needed (min/day) 42.3 29.8 57.5 43.6 97 61.7 50.3 35.5

Hormone protocols 28.7% 21.3% 38.0% 32.4% 41.7% 33.3% 32.4% 25.6%

Daily farm works in Germany without Heatime

Heat detection challenge: time for estrus detection

1 Michaelis et al., 2013 41 (G): 159 – 165

Rumination can help to detect heats …

Dry off Close up Heat0

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daily rumination changes (%)

New approach

Doron Bar – SCR Israel

Detection of a heat with the Heatime HR

The “Diamond”

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Health status

- Labor/distress alert;- Health monitoring;- Nutrition monitoring.

Taking care of the single cow: our strategy!

Database Management System

Reproduction

Health

Milking

Look into a single cow

THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!!