{"id":4027,"date":"2012-05-06T21:12:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T01:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=4027"},"modified":"2012-05-09T00:52:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T04:52:15","slug":"sunday-night-udderly-amazed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/05\/06\/sunday-night-udderly-amazed\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday night &#8211; udderly amazed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very nice day today.. perfect weather and not too much to do. Took a long run up in the mountains with the girsl.. very good for my soul. The book I&#8217;m reading (Imagine by Jonah Lehrer says running is good for creativity.. but all I did was think about nothing.. bliss)<\/p>\n<p>Early afternoon I headed over to Homers to work on a project. On the way I saw freind and sort of neighbor Erin out on their tractor . I ducked in for a quick tour of Erin&#8217;s and her Fiancess robotic milking parlor. Erin&#8217;s been telling me about it for months..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8310.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8311.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>here&#8217;s Cher.. she decided to give us a demo. Each cow has an rfid ear tag.. the machine will only milk them if they need milking..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8312.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the robot<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8313.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and the entry side<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8337.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>here&#8217;s Cher..<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8314.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>first the machine reaches out and cleans here teats..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8320.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then it uses lasers to locate each teat<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8325.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then it latches on and starts milking..<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8330.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8331.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>all the details of each cow.. weight, milk production, teat location.. etc are on the computer.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8329.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8342.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p> ;<\/p>\n<p>here&#8217;s the milk.. she gave over 20 gallons<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8333.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8334.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>heres the manure scraping robot.. the back scratching robot is in the background (no joke)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8338.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>here are the manure producers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8340.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>erin then showed me the milk tank<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8344.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8343.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8345.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then it was off to homers&#8230; always love working there..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8348.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8351.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8354.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>thats it for now.. more tomorrow. have a nice week everyone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p> ;<\/p>\n<p>ps. here&#8217;s a snapping turtle that diane and I saved on friday. Dane gave me one of the car floor mats.. and i reached under him and tossed him off the road.. he wasn&#8217;t happy but he was safe. He was pretty pig.. he could have taken off a finger with that beak of his..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\" \" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8305.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0612\/IMG_8306.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very nice day today.. perfect weather and not too much to do. Took a long run up in the mountains with the girsl.. very good for my soul. The book I&#8217;m reading (Imagine by Jonah Lehrer says running is good for creativity.. but all I did was think about nothing.. bliss) Early afternoon I headed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/05\/06\/sunday-night-udderly-amazed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday night &#8211; udderly amazed<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[486],"class_list":["post-4027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-udderly-amazed"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4029,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions\/4029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}