KEEPING COWS COMFORTABLE AT THE ROBOT

High traffic areas like the fetch pen, the commitment pen, and the robot entrance can become crowded any time but the crowding can be a bigger problem when the weather gets hot. Keeping cows comfortable in guided flow commitment pens is important because cows can't leave. Free flow fetch pens are similar. With either guided-flow or free-flow, cows spend significant time waiting in front of the robots.  Bunching in any those areas can limit access to the robot for cows that need to be milked. How can we keep cows comfortable at the robot?

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