Labour and health benefits of automated slurry robots

摘要

Installing an automated slurry robot has helped one Welsh dairy save labour and improve cow foot health. Dairy Farmer reports.Scraping times have been reduced to one-third at Glaspant Farm since installing a Lely Discovery 120Collector.Over the past five years, the prevalence of digital dermatitis has reduced from 10 to 1 after an automatic footbath was installed to enable easy routine foot bathing.