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- Title
Mise à jour des connaissances sur la traite robotisée des vaches laitières (Review).
- Authors
YOUSFI, Maha; M'SADAK, Youssef
- Abstract
The first milking robots appeared on the European market in the early 1990s. Robotic Milking Systems (RMS), designed to make bovine milking voluntary, are constantly evolving. Manufacturers currently share the market, with fixed or mobile single or multi-stall machines. The installation of a milking robot in dairy barns represents new challenges for the industry in terms of meeting quality milk production standards and optimizing robot performance. But the future of the robot also depends on the technical progress to be made in the detection of abnormal milk and by maintaining, or even strengthening, its use with grazing cows, so as not to harm the quality image of the product and animal welfare that consumers have from the dairy chain. Thus, milking robot is an automaton, programmable equipment that allows dairy cows milking without direct intervention of the farmer: all proceedings are fully automated, in particular the installation of the milking cluster. Robotic milking uses largely the same technologies as conventional installations. The milking robot facilitates the collection of a huge data via several sensors, and stores it, to allow the farmer making decisions more easily. It is more than just a milking technology that improves the daily life quality, it is a new way of conceiving the conduct of a herd. The milking robot exploitation helps to manage milking, milk quality but also the feeding of animals, their circulation in the building and their access to pastures. Although the impact of this technology on labor organization and herd management was highlighted, particular attention was paid to milk quality degradation and the increase of somatic cells concentration (SCC) in the herd milk. Furthermore, the milking robot involves the inter-reaction of comfort, animal health and work efficiency.
- Subjects
ANIMAL feeding; MILK quality; ANIMAL products; ANIMAL health; PRODUCT image; ANIMAL herds
- Publication
Nature & Technology / Nature & Technologie, 2022, Issue 27, p18
- ISSN
1112-9778
- Publication type
Article