Changing Your Liners
As liners age, their shape, tension and surface condition changes gradually. The liners stretch and several key features of their milking performance alter. In particular:
- the average milking time per cow increases
- the frequency of liner slips increases
- the amount of milk left in the quarters of an udder when cups are removed increases
- the teat-end condition worsens
The reason for this reduction in performance is falling liner to teat and contact pressure on the teat end (or a reduced effective compressive load applied by the liner to the teat end).
Liner performance
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