Monthly Archives: January 2015

Delpro Entry: Batch Insemination

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To enter multiple breedings at the same time, do the following:

  1. Find the animals to be bred in Animal List or any report.
  2. Select all of the ones bred by using Shift-Click or Ctrl-Click
  3. Right click > Batch Entry > Insemination
  4. Set the parameters the same way as a single entry
  5. Click Apply To All and then Save and Close

If different cows have different parameters (Semen, comment, date, etc.) these can be edited individually by clicking on the animal in the list at the bottom of window.

Delpro Entry: Insemination Event

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To enter an insemination event in Delpro, do the following:

  1. Open the animal card – in the box at the top of the screen, type the cow number, and press enter.
  2. Click on the Events tab
  3. Click New and click Insemination
  4. Enter the Semen by using the drop down box. If the semen used in not registered in the system, click the New button in the drop down box, and add it.
  5. Change the User to your name, or “ABS Tech” if your name is not in the system.
  6. Enter any relevant comments (your name, ovsynch, GNRH, or other breeding notes)
  7. Click Save and Close

Or to enter multiple breedings at the same time, use insemination batch entry

 

Evening Chores Procedure

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  1. Feed calves – start mixing milk no earlier than 4:30pm
    • Feed bank barn calves and get milk replacer
    • Mix milk, fill bottles and fill water buckets
      • On very cold days, fill a bucket with hot water for thawing calf buckets
      • Rinse all equipment used for milk replacer (milk replacer bucket, mixing barrel, drill mixer)
    • Feed milk bottles
      • Distribute to hutches first
        • White clothespins get milk in the evening only
        • Yellow or Orange clothespins get 4 pint bottles, others get 5 pint bottles
        • Blue and Green clothespins do not get milk
      • Feed bull pen calves
      • Return to hutches and help any calves that didn’t drink completely
    • Top off hutch water buckets – older calves need a full bucket, younger calves half bucket is usually enough
    • Feed grain in calf barn – one scoop per calf
    • Refill grain buckets for weaned calves – light blue clothespins get sweet unique and dark blue clothespin calves get legendairy pellets
    • Give clavamox pills to calves that are being treated – purple or red clothespins, also noted in Slack and on the feeding board
    • Wash bottles and all equipment
      • Rinse with warm water to remove all foreign material.  Note especially that nipples need to be rinsed and scrubbed to remove saliva, milk, and any other substances
      • Wash bottles, nipples and pill guns in hot water using some dish detergent and a 1/3 scoop of chlorine
      • Use wash water to clean buckets and milk mixer
      • Set bottles and nipples to dry.  Shake excess water off of nipples.
  2. Clean freestalls in milking barn using the rake
  3. Push feed – milking cows, dry cows, heifers

VMS Washdown Procedure

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  • Spray the camera area thoroughly, blasting water into the grippers and other spaces to flush sand out
  • Wash the arm and teat cups
  • Wash the rubber deck
  • Spray water into the sponge and squeeze it out a few times

Take the hose out through the robot to do the following:

  • Wash the butt pan thoroughly, making sure that there is no manure restricting motion
  • Wash out the gutter under and behind the robot
  • Wash the deck, sidewalls and gates on the robot

Using a toothbrush and vinegar, clean the film off of the camera lens

Unhook Tank Wash Connections

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After the tank has washed, the connections need changed.  Always refill tank wash chemicals BEFORE unhooking the tank wash.

Refill tank wash chemicals – the tank wash chemical pump is in the utility room beside the bulk tank

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  1. Empty the water from detergent jar.  Dump it on the floor in front of the detergent jug to protect the floor from spilled detergent.  Refill the jar about 3/4 full with IBA FC-517.  Replace the jar.
  2. Empty the water from the acid jar.  Put enough Double Team in the jar to just cover the small ring in the bottom.  Replace the jar.

Unhook the tank wash connections:

  1. Remove the double elbow connection on the front of the tank by unscrewing the large nut.  Loosen two clamps and twist the elbows down out of the way.  The 3″ rubber gasket should be hung on the bolt under the stand.
    Tank Outlet Elbows
  2. Remove the fitting from the pump outlet (2″ fitting with hex nut) and hang it on the tank by screwing it to the white plug.  Hang the 2″ rubber gasket on the bolt under the stand.
  3. Remove the water fill fitting (2″ triclover connection) and hang it on the tank beside the other fitting.  Save the gasket
  4. Put the 3″ hex nut and screen from the sink on the end of the tank valve.
  5. Put the gray 2-piece screw on plug on the pump outlet
  6. Put the cap and clamp on the water fill inlet.

It should look like this when finished:

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