Ruminant milking

CLEM.Activities.RuminantActivityMilking

Perform herd milking

This activity will perform milking of the specified lactating females and store milk in the designated store.

The following parameters are used to define this activity

This parameter points to one of the defined resource types capable of receiving milk. This entry is a drop down list of available Animal food store types, Human food store types and Product store types.

This parameter will determine what action is taken if there are insufficient resources to perform this activity.

You can report an error and stop the simulation, skip this activity or use the resources available. See What to do when resources are limiting

The following components are required to use this activity

This activity requires a Ruminant type with Breed ruminants activity to provide lactating females.

The following components will add additional functionality to this activity

This activity provides the following identifiers: Number milked and Litres milked

This activity provides the following units for components: fixed, per head and per L milked

Any Labour requirement will include labour allocation to perform this activity based on any specified identifiers and units and may limit the outcomes if supported and OnPartialResourcesAvailableAction set to UseAvailableWithImplications

Any Activity fee will include financial costs based on any specified identifiers and units and may limit the outcomes if supported and OnPartialResourcesAvailableAction set to UseAvailableWithImplications

This activity will occur in every time-step unless timers are used to restrict this activity (see Using timers).

This activity will obey all Ruminant activity group in the simulation tree at and above it's location.

Only one instance of this component is permitted in each Activity.

This activity is performed during the Animal milking event of the setup and time-step events. This ensures all suckling offspring have had the opportunity to consume milk and all milk production has been calculated.

Milking is performed on all individuals of the current herd considering any filter groups above the activity.

This task will be performed on individuals meeting the following filter rules

IsLactating

You can further customise this selection by adding Ruminant groups

The following status values apply to this activity and are shown in Activities performed report:

blank The activity was not considered in this time-step
not needed No milk was produced
success

Individuals were milked

See also