Attentions alert you about issues during milking so you can take immediate action and keep milk quality high. They also allow you to review and analyze issues after a session to improve long-term performance.
Where to View Attentions?
You can view attentions both during and after a milking session. This lets you respond quickly to issues as they occur and review the data later for monitoring or follow-up actions.
- During milking: The InTouch screen flashes red, and the parlor monitor shows the type of attention at the specific milking point.
- After milking: View all attentions from the last session in the Milking tile on the Dashboard. Select an attention to see details, such as the milk yield deviation per animal.
Milk Production Too Low Attention
This attention warns you during milking when an animal is producing less milk than expected.
- What it means: The actual milk yield is much lower than expected. The threshold is defined in Milking Settings.
- What you see: The milk yield progress bar on the parlor monitor turns red. The milking point blinks red and stopped milking.
- What to do: Follow your farm’s protocol for low milk production.
Milk Separation
Attention
This attention appears when the milk from an animal needs to be separated during milking, so it is not mixed with the main milk supply. This is often due to medication treatments or because the cow has recently calved.
- What it means: This animal has been assigned a period during which her milk must be separated. For colostrum, this period is defined in the Milking settings.
- What you see: The milking point blinks red, stopped milking and shows the milk separation icon.
- What to do:
- Check the parlor monitor or InTouch to see which milking point triggered the attention.
- Redirect the milk hoses at that milking point to send the milk to the correct destination.
- Start the milking process.
Conductivity Attention
This attention warns you when the milk’s conductivity is outside the normal range, which may indicate a health issue such as mastitis.
- What it means: The system measures the milk’s electrical conductivity at the milking point and compares it to the rolling average for that animal. If the difference exceeds the set threshold in Milking Settings, the attention is triggered.
- What you see: The milking point blinks red and has stopped milking.
- What to do: Follow your farm’s protocol for conductivity issues.
