Are Dairy Robots the Secret to Happier Cows and More Efficient Farms?
Are Dairy Robots the Secret to Happier Cows and More Efficient Farms?
In a dairy barn full of content cows, autonomous robots handle milking, feeding, and cleaning, allowing farmers more flexibility and improving cow welfare. With robots, cows produce more milk and more comfortable lives. Could this be the future of sustainable farming?
No
Betteridge's law applies. The answer to a yes-no headline question is always no.
Anyone else watch 10th generation dairyman?
Imagine believing that carnists profiting from torture, murder, and environmental destruction give a shit about happier cows.
No. Not raping and abusing them for selfish human wants makes cows happier. This is the stupidest shit ever.
I lived on a dairy farm. They are not abused like cattle for beef production. And are you saying in-fertilization is rape? Because I mean. Normal Stud mounting is far worse than an arm up ones vagina.
no one is raping cows
My wife’s cousins dairy farm has one of these robots. It’s like a big roomba that dispenses hay. The cows love that machine lol. He also has an automated cow hugger and cows walk up to get squeezed by this machine. It’s pretty cool.
We take your milk and your child, here is a robot that hugs you.
Okay, I joked in another comment, but I have to know more about this cow-hugging machine!
There's a phone near me and they have two rotating brushes. They look like the things that wash your car in a drive in car wash, except with bristles rather than floppy mops.
There have been robots for cows for years. It‘s the SHIT PUSHER ROBOT. It‘s pushing away the straw and shit all the day. That’s useful automation imho.
Edit: And a feeding machine is know for years as well. Same with the hugging brushes.
Call it a „robot“ and it gives you an article in the IEEE magazine and promotes your startup. What a shit show.
Editedit: Ok, read the article. It’s more a „Hey look how much automation is in a cow barn already“
The life of a cow becomes much more free and comfortable. Somehow it reminds me of the life of a human working and living in a modern society. (Not sure, if we recognize the fences around us and still call it freedom)
I was skeptical - really skeptical. Then I read the article and cheered. Thank you.
Absolutely fascinating and promising. Thanks for sharing. Any downvoters clearly didn't read the article.
I don't know. You tell me, headline.
That's not its job. It's supposed to grab you. And hug you. Like a cow...