ТЕХНИКО-ТЕХНОЛОГИЧЕСКАЯ ОЦЕНКА ДОИЛЬНЫХ РОБОТОВ РАЗЛИЧНЫХ ПРОИЗВОДИТЕЛЕЙ

Abstract

Now one of the urgent problems in dairy cattle breeding is the shortage of workers and specialists. The solution to the problem is the introduction of a voluntary robotic milking system. (Research purpose) The research purpose is conducting a comparative analysis of milking robots of the most popular manufacturers in the world, such as Lely, DeLaval, Gea Farm Technologies. (Materials and methods) Studies were carried out on three farms equipped with milking robots of the studied companies. We used our own measurements, as well as data from the herd management programs of milking robots. (Results and discussion) It was determined that in the first 3 months of lactation, with free milking on milking robots, it is possible to get up to 15 percent more milk than with double milking on the Herringbone milking machine. It was found that the Lely Astronaut A4 milking robot has the highest number of milked cows - 68 heads on a one-box and 135 on a two-box, DeLaval VMS have a large tilt of the milking cups when connected to the udder nipples (45 degrees). It was shown that Lely Astronaut A4 surpasses its competitors in total milking time (6.03 minutes), consumes 36 percent less water than VMS and 35 percent less than MIone, and consumes 42 percent less electricity than VMS and 52.7 percent less than MIone. It was found that after brushing the hardened contaminated udder teat with the Astronaut A4 milking robot, bacterial contamination on the surface of the nipples averaged 470 CFU in 1 cubic centimeter, whereas after washing the teats with VMS and MIone milking robots, bacterial contamination amounted to 45.0 thousand CFU in 1 cubic centimeter. (Conclusions) It was stated that Lely Astronaut A4 milking robots surpass their competitors in many aspects, such as milking speed, udder teat cleaning quality, as well as electricity and water consumption.