Milking is important!

Milking is important, so spend some time to make sure milking on your farm is effective and efficient .

1- Parlour design, keep it simple, plan for the future
2- Concentrate on cow flow, Well designed and maintained raceways are essential
3- Have a good milking and wash up routine, Attaching clusters, cupping early, Opening gate early, cooperation between workers, etc
4- Visit, and milk, in other peoples parlours
5- Buy low cell count cows
6- Learn how to recognize mastitis
7- Learn how to put on, take off a cluster properly
8- Have all cows freeze branded for milk recording, identifying sick animals and heat detection