Astronaut A4

Early detection for optimal results

The transition from conventional to robotic milking changes your daily routines. To keep cows healthy you require close monitoring. The robot provides you with much more information than you are used to. Every event from birth till the day she leaves the farm is stored in the Lely T4C program. On the one hand T4C helps you to supply an individual cow with all her needs for an optimal health, production and well-being. On the other hand the system provides farm specific information to control the herd. Prevention is better than cure, but early detection is the next best thing!

Achieve the optimum ratio

The T4C management program gives you the opportunity to reduce your feed cost because of higher feed efficiency. With the optional dynamic feeding module (DLM), the system automatically changes feed allocations per cow based on optimum cost benefit ratio. You can avail yourself of unique resources enabling you to maximize your profits; this is no longer about the cows producing most milk but rather about the cows yielding the best economic results.

One man, two million

An increase of labour productivity is desired to ensure a healthy dairy business in the future as well. Achieving more litres of milk per worker in an animal-friendly way; that is our challenge. On conventional dairy farms where milking is done twice a day now, production increases of 10 to 15% are easily realised by means of our milking robot. Furthermore, we are constantly seeking new solutions which will enable you to automate other processes as well.

Get the most out of your milk

Lely is the first to offer a standard in-line fat and protein indication system. From each milking fat, protein and lactose are analysed allowing you to monitor herd performance. Lely has further improved its MQC-C somatic cell count analyser. This unique, second generation, inline system, determines the somatic cell count after each milking.

The result is healthier cows which leads to lower costs due to maximum productivity and lower veterinary costs.

Dynamic herd approach

Individual differences in feed efficiency and milk interval sensitivity provide the basis of the dynamic herd approach to gain the highest profit margin. With historic data recorded, the system predicts how each animal responds in total milk yield to a specific amount of concentrate or milk interval. Research has shown that by using dynamic milking, total daily milk output per robot is increased and that the available robot capacity is used more efficiently.

Health indicators registered by Lely T4C

• Milk colour (per quarter)
• Fat/protein indication of the milk
• Lactose indication of the milk
• Conductivity of the milk (per quarter)
• Milk temperature
• Rumination minutes of the cow
• Cow activity
• Cow weight
• Milk production of the cow
• Feed intake of the cow
• Amount of rest feed of the cow
• Milking time/dead milking time
• (Max.) milking speed

All alerts are presented in one single transparent dashboard

All alerts are presented in one single transparent dashboard, allowing you to focus on the cows that need you the most. This is true management by exception!