FARM FEATURE - SANDHILL DAIRY'S NO-PELLET TRANSITION

One of the hottest topics in robotic milking is, “Do I really need to feed pellets to get cows to come to the robot?” A growing number of guided flow farms have demonstrated that you don’t. Some farms started their robots without feed so the cows never knew anything different. Others gradually took pellets away from cows that had been trained to expect pellets. I worked with Sandhill Dairy as we took their cows from 7 pounds per cow per day to no pellet in the robot. Here is how we did it.

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