Choosing the
right dairy liners
Making an informed choice and looking at some of the latest developments in liner technology could have a dramatic and positive impact on herd health and milk quality. Milkrite | InterPuls has been introducing new technology liners over the last years that improve milking efficiency and teat health. �e triangular liner is well known to give a gentler milking action – and more recently the mouthpiece vented version that is giving efficiency and teat health improvements. Triangular liners have a much gentler milking action due to the way the liner collapses under vacuum – see gure 1. �e three-way collapse of a triangular liner exerts less pressure on the teat and can help reduce the incidence of teat-end damage- see graph 1. Triangular liners also have a greater area in contact with the teat so are less prone to slipping / squawking.
Graph 1 Test end score comparison
Milkrite Impulse triangular range combines the bene ts of triangular liners with a triangular shell pro le- to give a faster response from the liner to the pulsation signals. �is further improves milking efficiency. Triangular mouthpiece vented liners are revolutionary( lot less slippage on the teat, excellent speed of milking, excellent teat health).“ It is the biggest improvement in milking the cow in a generation”. You can nd out more by visiting the milkrite | InterPuls website – www. milkrite-interpuls. com –
Figure 1 – round versus triangular
January- February 2017
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