Electronic milk meters

dungfly

What can they measure? What's the benefit & cost?

mahoney_j

dungfly wrote: »

What can they measure? What's the benefit & cost?

I've p21 metatrons from Gea and they measure yield ,conductivity,feed to yield, and can tell you a huge range of info on cow ,how long calved,feed allocated,activity for heat detection,if u tube a cow you can enter that info with withdrawal peroid in the pit.they ain't cheap though but it all interlinked back to the dairy plan and I could give another while here explaining what that dose .well impressed with it though

John_F

GEA westfalia ones measure milk yield in kgs and conductivity.

if you go for auto id and P21 meter then the LCD screen and alert lights will flash if there is either a change in conductivity or is she is down in milk. can also feed from it to top up a cow, check the cows feed level, look at cow history e.g. days calved, days bulled, cow status e.g. pregnant or open or inseminated, activity level, previous recorded scc, normal conductivity, average milk yield, previous milk yield, enter medicine (will block at next milking and up to the withdrawal time for that drug), enter heat, enter dry off and block milking and all the above for the previous three cows at that unit. Can also open and close gates from each unit.

probably can do more too but to be honest the ones you use are conductivty, cow status, feed level, and how much she came to wthin her average milk. Nothing else on the market like this really with a LCD screen and this information available in the pit and able to store information from the pit.

there are some manufacturers meters with some of the features but flash a light next to a symbol e.g. gascoigne & delaval, think milfos have something too but they are also owned by GEA now.

typically meters will measure in kgs how much milk the cow has and perhaps the flow rate of the milk during milking. so they are the benefts, costs.... well go and get quotes

westfalia p21

gascoigne one

John_F

took so long to reply that mahoney got there first . @mahoney_j replied to you in water heater thread by the way.

dungfly

John_F wrote: »

GEA westfalia ones measure milk yield in kgs and conductivity.

if you go for auto id and P21 meter then the LCD screen and alert lights will flash if there is either a change in conductivity or is she is down in milk. can also feed from it to top up a cow, check the cows feed level, look at cow history e.g. days calved, days bulled, cow status e.g. pregnant or open or inseminated, activity level, previous recorded scc, normal conductivity, average milk yield, previous milk yield, enter medicine (will block at next milking and up to the withdrawal time for that drug), enter heat, enter dry off and block milking and all the above for the previous three cows at that unit. Can also open and close gates from each unit.

probably can do more too but to be honest the ones you use are conductivty, cow status, feed level, and how much she came to wthin her average milk. Nothing else on the market like this really with a LCD screen and this information available in the pit and able to store information from the pit.

there are some manufacturers meters with some of the features but flash a light next to a symbol e.g. gascoigne & delaval, think milfos have something too but they are also owned by GEA now.

typically meters will measure in kgs how much milk the cow has and perhaps the flow rate of the milk during milking. so they are the benefts, costs.... well go and get quotes

westfalia p21

gascoigne one

If conductivty, cow status, feed level and average milk were required what kind of money are we talking per unit? or per 16 units?

bbam

Make sure you check out the service costs..

I installed a few of the Alfa Alpro meter systems and the service kits are no way cheap... And all meters should really be calibrated every six months..