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Udderly Essential AMS Maintenance Tips

Maintaining an Automatic Milking System (AMS) is like maintaining a car or a tractor. Many maintenance tasks are simple, routine, require minimal time, and can be performed by farm staff.

Estrategias de manejo en el área de maternidad y cuidado de terneros al nacer

¿Quieres mejorar la salud y el éxito de tu hato lechero? Este video Alison Pfau, la educadora regional bilingüe en sistemas de producción lechera de la Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison, división de extensión te enseña las mejores prácticas para asistir un parto de manera segura, desde el manejo del corral de maternidad hasta el cuidado vital del ternero.

Thanks for Your Deworming Management

“On behalf of intestinal helminth parasites everywhere, I would like to thank dairy and beef producers for hosting us in their cattle and on their pastures this summer. Despite your management efforts, we reproduced inside your cattle.”

Comodidad en las camas

Proporcionar un ambiente excelente es clave para criar terneros con éxito. En el alojamiento de los terneros, el ambiente incluye el espacio que el ternero usa para descansar, las áreas de alimentación y las superficies por donde camina.

Encouraging Voluntary Visits in Automatic Milking Systems

What makes Automatic Milking Systems (AMS) different from conventional systems is that cows bring themselves to the robot to be milked. While this allows for greater flexibility in managing tasks and cow routines, it also introduces a new management challenge: fetch cows.

Best Practices for Fetching Cows in Automatic Milking Systems

In Automatic Milking Systems (AMS), some cows may not visit the AMS as often as expected and need to be fetched for milking. The goal is to not only get the cow milked, but to do so in an efficient way that encourages her to return voluntarily in the future.

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