Posted by tractorkrum on March 25, 2021 at 05:20:51 from (173.245.140.245):
In Reply to: Coming to a Cross Road posted by Bruce from Can. on March 24, 2021 at 07:03:08:
Bruce I can certainly relate to your situation. A friend of mine that I also worked as a relief milker went through this about six years ago. His son had surgery and had someone hired to fill the son's position. The help went off the deep end leaving leaving my friend and his wife with the whole operation. I could only help out so much as I had a full time job and could not milk both morning and night. They were milking about 90 cows in a 70 cow barn. He was in his later 50's and the son was in his mid 20's. So the decision was made to install a robot. They converted the dairy barn to accommodate the robot going down to 63 stalls (They had installed comfort stall in the barn previously). With changing to TMR at the same time, they are producing the same amount of milk as they were with 90 cows. The cows are now milked about 2.7 times a day in the robot. It has worked out very well for them. With the extra feed they have started to raise a few beef cattle and need to buy less feed. The son is being brought into the operation and because of some serious health issues of my friend's wife, he has had to step up more. The son is the eyes and years of the robot. By no means is my friend ready to retire. This operation has always been set up to allow vacations as long as I can remember and with the robot it does allow more quality of life time,
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