Milk Efficiency
Modified on 2016/03/30 13:44 by Moon — Categorized as: Uncategorized
Milk Efficiency
is an indication of production by looking at the cow's yield adjusted for her weight over 7 days. A good measure to use if you want to see who your high producers are! You will need MilkHub sensors and weigh scales for this metric to work.
How do I interpret Milk Efficiency?
MilkHub looks at the cow's yield based on sensor volume measurements and adjusts that for her weight over a 7 day period. The cow is then ranked against an average of 100. Cows above 100 are producing more volume per weight than the average cow in the herd. Cows under 100 are producing less volume per weight than the average cow in the herd.
Where do I find it?
Milk Efficiency is found in
Scratch Pad
by going to
Add/Remove Columns
and clicking the drop-down arrow next to
Production
.
How do I use it?
You will need to decide what you want to use
Milk Efficiency
for as it useful to find either high or low producers. In the exercise below we will look at who the top 20% producers are and put them in a group.
1.
Sort your
Milk Efficiency
column from high to low by clicking on the
Milk Efficiency
heading, then clicking it again
2.
Work out what 20% of your herd equals and note the answer
3.
Click on
Add Criteria
4.
Click the
Which Column
drop-down and select
Rank
from the list
5.
Click the
equals
drop-down and select
less than or equals
6.
In the
Value
box type what 20% of your herd equalled. (200 for a 1000 cow herd)
7.
Click
Add
8.
Tick the select all box next to
Actions
to select all the displayed cows
9.
Click on
Actions > Group Membership
10.
Select
Add to New Group
, give your group a
Name
, a
Colour
(especially useful if you have a broadcast display) and a
Description
.
11.
Click
Create Group and Add
.