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Research of Production Results in the Transition From Conventional to Robotic Milking

Innovations in animal husbandry are most often where production processes are most sensitive or where the largest workforce participates. Milking cows is one of such jobs where automation of jobs has been introduced more and more in recent years, ie where robots are increasingly used for milking. Today, there are about 50, 000 robots of various designs and manufacturers in use in the world. Research shows that number will double in the coming years. The robotization of dairy farms has gained momentum with producers in the Republic of Croatia. However, in robotization of farms, farmers face new challenges and practices that they did not know before. That is why any professional and scientific help is welcome and worth studying. The results of this study were conducted on two dairy farms that underwent a transition from conventional to robotic milking. The results showed a significant (p <0.0001) decrease in the number of older cows seen through the number of lactations after the transition from conventional to robotic milking (from 2.51 to 2.16 and 1.77 lactation, respectively). This indicates that it is necessary to do increased selection and selection of cows better adapted to robotic milking. The average production per cow increased significantly (p <0.0001) (by about 500 kg milk in the second year after the introduction of robotic milking), while the percentage of milk fat and urea in milk decreased significantly (p <0.0001). The number of somatic cells increased, but not significantly. It can be concluded that the first (transitional) year (the year of transition to robotic milking) is very important and technologically challenging. However, in the second year of production, robotic milking shows significant positive effects on production.

production results, conventional milking, robotic milking, cows

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