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Tip of the Month – June 2025

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Do you (ever) have an increased Germ count / Plate count ?

Then of course immediately contact your VMS technician / cooling tank technician.

But what can you do yourself in the meantime:

1. Check whether sufficient cleaning agent is used.
2. Is the (end) temperature of the cleaning high enough?
3. Is the milk filter replaced often enough?
4. Do you clean the rod around which the filter is placed properly?
5. Is the thread of the filter seal clean?
6. What is the water hardness (limescale), is it cleaned often enough with acid?
7. Do you always clean after each cow separation?
So even if it is not penicillin milk and / or a heifer with colostrum!
Does not always have to be a main cleaning.
8. If the robot is not too heavily occupied and no VMS visits for 30-45 minutes? => Cleaning!
Does not always have to be a main cleaning.
Summer day this is even more important!
9.  When the cows are in the pasture and there is no milking for a while? => Main cleaning!
10. Are the teat liners replaced regularly and are the milk hoses still good?
11. Is the pre-treatment cup and valve clean and working fine?
12. Is the robot room and everything that touches cups “workable clean”?

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