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In this example, the blue line is the short milk tube. The\ngreen line illustrates the mouthpiece vacuum. The Y Axis is showing vacuum\nlevel (inHg), and the X axis is showing the time of the day (indicating milktime).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The width of the blue line indicates milk flow to us. This is an example of a wide blue line showing that this cow had a high milkspeed. We can see that the blue line (milk flow) started narrower, and the green line (mouthpiece vacuum) started a little high. This indicates a slow start for a cow (potentially needed more prep time). As the milk flow increases, the vacuum also drops in the mouthpiece. This shows the teat was able to create a seal in the barrel of the liner creating a better fit so no vacuum was escaping into the mouthpiece. Near the end of milking, you see the milk flow (blue) decrease, and mouthpiece vacuum (green) increase. This is where overmilking occurs. As a rule, we would like to see no more than 30 seconds of overmilking during the milking event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is important to keep in mind that this is only one\nquarter on one cow at one milking. The Lely Way is to milk the right cow at the\nright time the right way. We usually leave the VaDia on for the duration of several\nmilkings and analyze each of those milkings to get an average and form\nconclusions based on multiple milking events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
From the data collected on this farm, we were able to see the interaction between pulsation and vacuum, allowing us to identify that pulsation dependent on milk flow and vacuum dependent on milk flow settings were on. We changed them to off. Based on multiple milkings with slow starts, we increased treatment time on this farm. Admittedly, the Dairyman and I were both nervous to do so because this farm averages 5% free time year-round. The results we have seen have been fantastic! Decreased boxtime, increase milk speed, decrease milk time, increase free time. Milk is up about two pounds per cow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are grateful for the support of Kira Andersen and the\nLely AFS team to help teach us this tool, and are looking forward to using it\non all our farms in the future!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"