In Parlour Feeding
Herringbone Parlour
The ATL herringbone feeding system is designed to suit any parlour simply by choosing the appropriate hopper from the extensive range and fitting the standard feeder unit.
Specifications:
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Feeder Dimensions - 470 x 270 x 115mm (18.5 x 10.6 x 4.5")
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Nominal 12vDC motor, diodes pre-fitted, motor electrically isolated, common negative or positive, timed running, power supply entry through grommet on either side of feeder
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Heavy duty steel construction with rolled edges for extra strength and safety - 18 swg galvanised or stainless steel
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Stainless steel rivets, bushes and bolts used throughout for a long, corrosion free life
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Simple, postive fixing system provides fast isntallation and easy maintenance
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Fixings - Six M6 stainless steel bolts, cutoff and calibration slides supplied
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Chute / downpipe - 76mm (3") OD flange
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For hopper dimensions see leaflet
Abreast Parlour
With its unique modular design, the ATL abreast feeder will fit just about any parlour, even old 'shovel' based layouts - with the minimum of fuss and upheaval.
Specifications:
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Heavy duty steel construction with stainless steel rivets, bushes and bolts used throughout for long, corrosion free life
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Rolled edges for extra strength and safety
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Nominal 12vDC motor, diodes pre-fitted, motor electrically isolated, common negative or positive, timed running, power supply entry through grommet on either side of feeder
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Heavy duty steel construction with rolled edges for extra strength and safety - 18 swg galvanised or stainless steel
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Manual or automatic flap options
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Feed bins and mangers available in five different widths from 500 - 1150mm
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For dimensions please see leaflet
Rotary Parlour
The ATL rotary parlour feeder is designed to deliver rations at high speed into the centre of mangers on rotary milking platforms.
Specifications:
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Heavy duty steel construction with stainless steel rivets, bushes and bolts used throughout for long, corrosion free life
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Rolled edges for extra strength and safety
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Nominal 12vDC motor, diodes pre-fitted, motor electrically isolated, common negative or positive, timed running, power supply entry through grommet on either side of feeder
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For dimensions please see leaflet
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Feeding Controls
Micro MS3 Parlour Control
Our most advanced parlour feeding control the Micro MS3 is a simple and easy to use memory feeder control. The Micro MS3 can be connected to a wide range of optional extras including parlour auto-id, automatic drafting gates, milk meters and Cowculator dairy animal management software.
Designed for use in both herringbone and abreast parlours the integration of the Micro MS3 controller allows for easy management and monitoring of your animals feed, health and medicine use. As the animals enter the parlour, you just key in the animal number and press feed, the correct ration is delivered to the next available stall on the current parlour side
General Features
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Memory can store up to 999 animals
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4 digit numeric animal numbers
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6 health attentions - AI, vet, mastitis, dry, test, bulling and slow - optional animal already fed attention
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Feeding and milking prevention on health attentions
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Optional audible attentions
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Stainless steel mounting bracket and fixing kit included
Available Options:
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Feeding and non-feeding versions available
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Store milk yields using the ATL milk meter
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Store milk yields from Fullwood Afikim, Gascoigne Melotte, Nedap and other milk meters
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Automatically feed and store milk yields without keypad animal number entry using auto-id
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Automatically sort animals using the Pegasus drafting system
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Connect to Cowculator dairy animal management PC software to manage your animals, perform feed to yield and select animals for drafting from the comfort of your farm office
Milking Features:
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2 or 3 milkings per day
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Connects to either ATL milk meters or other manufacturers milk meters using Milk Meter Interface
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Milking totals available - current day yield for animal, previous day yield for animal, current day yield for herd/flock and animals with percentage milk yield variation
Integrate with Cowculator PC Software for Additional Features:
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Manage your animals using feed and yield history over multiple lactations
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Monitor animals health and medicine use
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Feed to yield and feeding based on days in milk
Extra Parlour Control:
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Access animal records from another terminal in the parlour using the Extra Parlour Control
Digital Feeder Controls
Specifications:
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12/24vDC switching positive feeder voltage as standard
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12/24vDC switching negative feeder voltage optional
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Drives electric or vacuum feeders
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Digital feeder calibration
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Reset ration to zero or the last ration after delivering each ration
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7A automatic feeder overload protection
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Feeder ON indicators and 2 digit ration display
Auto Feeder Controls
As a replacement to the AutoXL Control, the Auto Feeder has a number of new features including:
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Availablability with 16 feeder outputs per side
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Feeds on both sides at the same time
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Total showing amount of feed left in the feed bin
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Low feed warning - alarms when feed left in feed bin drops below user set level
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Ethernet communications
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Comprehensive error reporting providing easy fault diagnosis
Features:
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Individual or batch feeding
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Batch stand-by feeding
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Individual and global digital feeder calibration
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Sequential or stored feeding modes
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Totals showing the amount of feed fed during the milking, the number of cows fed during the milking, cumulative feed fed for all milkings and feed left in feed bin
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Warning when feed left in bin reaches user set level
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Detailed error reporting makes fault finding easy
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Stainless steel mounting bracket and fixing kit included
Specifications:
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12/24vDC switching positive or negative feeders as standard
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12-230vAC feeder switching voltage optional using Feeder Interface
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Drives electric, vacuum or compressed air feeders
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Electronic fuse detection with power supply failure warning
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Drives 12 or 16 feeders per side as standard
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Expandable to 32 feeders per side using Feeder Relay Extender Box