View Lely Milk Day Production

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Question: What is Lely milk day production and how can I view it in DairyComp?

Answer: Lely milk day production is an adjusted total milk yield value calculated by the Lely Horizon system. It factors in milking visit dates, times, and animal physiological factors to provide a more refined daily milk production figure for each cow. This value differs from the raw milk weight totals traditionally displayed in DairyComp.

To allow producers to monitor this specific Lely-calculated performance metric, DairyComp now imports and stores Lely milk day production values. Once your DairyComp is updated to the relevant build and configured for the Lely milk interface, this feature will automatically appear on the Lacations tab of CowCards; no additional end-user action is required except to create the additional Lely milk items.

While DairyComp supports storing up to 7 days of Lely milk day production values, additional items for previous days (e.g., LELY2, LELY3, etc., up to LELY8) must be manually created to display this historical data.

Follow the steps below to continue:

In the command line, enter ALTER\2 to display the Item Definitions window.

Select Add [Ins] to add a new item to DairyComp.

In the window that displays, enter the following properties for each new item:

Item Name	Item Type	Value (Milking Day)	Value (Milking No.)	Description
LELY2	120	2	16	2nd Lely Adjusted Milk Weight
LELY3	120	3	16	3rd Lely Adjusted Milk Weight
LELY4	120	4	16	4th Lely Adjusted Milk Weight
LELY5	120	5	16	5th Lely Adjusted Milk Weight
LELY6	120	6	16	6th Lely Adjusted Milk Weight
LELY7	120	7	16	7th Lely Adjusted Milk Weight
LELY8	120	8	16	8th Lely Adjusted Milk Weight

Click OK to save the newly created item.

NOTE: The Lely milk day production items cannot be used in the Parlor Performance and Parlor\O report module.

Once you have created your Lely milk day production items, you can use them in reports and lists. Below are some example commands you can run to create useful reports.

Summary of daily milk

This report shows averages of daily milk production by milking pens:

SUM DMLK1 LELY1 MDEV DIM WMDEV WMLK1 BY PEN FOR MPENS>0 DMLK1>0\F

Testday production summary

This report shows averages of test day production by milking pens:

SUM DMLK1 LELY1 WMLK1 PCTF RELV 305ME DIM LACT FOR MPENS>0 BY PEN

Fresh cow list

This report examines fresh cows during their first 60 days of milking. In this case, you would look for drops in milk production between the recent days to identify potential problem cows for further review. You would also look for cows with a significant jump in milk production (e.g., 10 pounds):

LIST PEN ID LACT:1 DIM LHEVT LHREM DMLK3:5 DMLK2:5 DMLK1:5 LELY1 MKDAT:5 BFDAT:5 FOR DIM=1-60

NOTE: Since items are customizable, not all of the items shown in the examples may be available for your DairyComp system. For instance, LHEVT (last event) and LHREM (last event remark) used in the "fresh cow list" command above are customized items.

View Lely Milk Day Production

Benefits of Lely Milk Data

View Lely Milk Data

Create Additional Lely Milk Data Items

Run Reports Containing Lely Milk Day Production Data