Optifeeding
Choose the level of automation you need, or build your system one step at a time.
With DeLaval Optifeeding system you can build up levels of automation in your feeding system step by step. Connect your existing equipment or add on components as needed.
You decide whether you just want to automate feeding concentrate; or to have your feed mixed at a central feeding centre; or whether some level of automated forage feeding is what you need. Or you might choose to install a fully automated feeding system, and gain much more accuracy in feeding and flexibility in your work schedule.
Automate at your own pace
With DeLaval Optifeeding system you can build up levels of automation in your feeding system step by step.
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Connect your existing equipment or add on components as needed: concentrate silos, mobile mixer, buffer table, for roughage, rail suspended distrubution wagon, DeLaval feed manager software, DeLaval ALPRO™ and DelPro™ dairy management solutions. You can have separate systems for feeding concentrates and TMR, or combine them. |
Examples of automation in Optifeeding
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DeLaval Optimat™ mobile
Automated filling and mixing, then delivery by mobile mixer wagon – this is DeLaval Optimat™ mobile.
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DeLaval Optimat™ feeding centre
For a very large herd, automated filling and mixing of bulk rations at a feeding centre: DeLaval Optimat™ feeding centre.
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Optimat™ standard
Forage is manually loaded into the stationary mixer and then the system handles mixing, unloading and distribution via the rail suspended feed wagon.
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DeLaval Optimat™ master
This is the fully automatic system where recipes, groups and schedules are programmed and the system manages loading, mixing and distribution to each group.
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DeLaval Optifeed™ concentrate
Automatically distributes concentrate and minerals from silos to our concentrate feed stations or in-parlour feeding system, for individual feeding of each cow.Automatically distributes concentrate and minerals from silos via a rail-suspended concentrate feed wagon, concentrate feed stations or in-parlour feeding bowls – for individual feeding of each cow.
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Convenience and connectivity
- Existing on-farm equipment – such as silos, mixers, buffer tables; augers, conveyors and liquid pumps – can be used in the automated Optifeeding system. All units can still be operated manually, if needed.
- Our mobile mixers can be linked to TMR feed manager software and our feed wagons can be connected with our DelPro™ herd management system.DeLaval Optifeeding system
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To prepare and distribute
feed - forage, TMR & concentrate
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Optifeed
concentrate
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Optimat
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feeding centre
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Optimat
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Automatic:
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- loading of concentrate
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- filling of forage
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- mixing
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- distribution
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- concentrate silo
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- mobile mixer
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- stationary mixer (with loading conveyor for distribution wagon)
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- loading tables for roughage
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- rail suspended distribution wagon for forage/TMR
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Distribute additional concentrate via:
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- rail suspended concentrate feed wagon
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- in parlour feeding
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- concentrate feed stations
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