Keep the entry and exit gates clean. Although the VMS has a floor cleaner, it is wise to spray off the corners a few times a day, on the places where the floor cleaner does not keep clean enough. While…

Stress from heat and breath control Checking the rumination is known to most livestock farmers, but do you also check “Breath control”? Under normal conditions, at rest and lack of high temperatures, the cow breathes about 40 times per minute.…

Increasing concentrated feed after calving – 2. Using DelPro 5.2 or higher, feed tables on DIL (Days In Lactation) can also be used. This is very useful for increasing concentrate at the right pace after calving. During company visits, we…

Tips on your phone & How to remotely view DelPro together It is useful to create a shortcut on your phone, “app”, which will take you straight to the Tip of the Month. Do this by looking up the Tip…

Fresh air! Stagnant water, such as that in ponds and ditches, is known to allow dirt, bacteria and germs to survive and spread easily. That is usually easy to see. They often become “stink ditches”. Drinking troughs could have the…

Make use of the “Help” Function Previously, a thick folder with manuals was given with the delivery of a milking robot. However, with an update, a paper manual is of course outdated and is no longer always correct. Instead of…

A smooth feeding area (in front of the feeding fences) When the feeding spot in front of the feeding fence is nice and smooth, you can move the feed more easily and clean up the feed residues easily. Besides that,…

Mini-milker. Although we would like to see a cow being milked in the milking robot as soon as possible after calving, it is simply not always possible. Either the cow is too labile after calving, or too sick, or the…

Check VMS Animal Settings. A new month has started and the “Workroutine” list says that we have to check once a month the settings for individual cows. Although the default settings are ok for the vast majority of cows, some…

Having a clean computer screen A clean screen makes your work flow a lot easier. A computer in the barn is easily a whole lot dirtier than one in the house. Not only the dust, but also fly poop can…