Calf barn with fix installed boxes
In order to raise calves successfully, management must be optimally coordinated in terms of housing, feeding and health.
One possibility is the calf barn with permanently installed calf boxes and subsequent housing in group pens. The design of the barn and the construction of the boxes ensure an optimal exchange of air. This can considerably reduce the germ load and thus significantly improve the health of the calves.
Keeping calves up to the age of 10 - 12 weeks in fixed calf boxes
- Good stable overview
- Removable walls make group stalls possible quickly and easily
- Calves can be kept in the calf boxes until weaning
- Can be combined with automatic feeding systems
- Easy and quick cleaning due to almost complete disassembly of the boxes
- The calf boxes are mounted on two fixed bases, which serve as a sliding edge during mechanical manure removal.
Keeping in group pens from the 8th week of life until approx. 6 months
- The critical transition phase is facilitated by a constant stable climate
- Calves can be fixed by a self-locking feed front
- Automatic drinking or drinking trough suckler buckets at the feed front is possible
- Two-room deep-pen barn with paved floor and straw
- Quick manure removal by one person with yard loader
More Planning Examples
Freestall barn for dairy cows
- The available space corresponds to the requirements of large-framed animals (see below)
- Cold shed with sufficient fresh air supply but without draft for an animal-friendly climate
- Resting comfort with rubber mats or bedding
Open barn for beef bulls
- Correct density level and group size
- Pen dividers: sturdy 4 or 5 bar panels
- Drinking troughs: built into dividers for protection
Calf barn with mobile pens
An in-out method is therefore much easier with calves. We offer holding systems which offer to keep calves up to 8 weeks individually in mobile pens.
Two-room bedded pack barn for suckler cows
- The ideal solution with regard to building costs, work load and animal comfort
- Separate area for calves which only calves can enter
- Separate calving, sick animal and breeding bull pen
Two-room sloping floor shed for suckler cows
On a littered, sloping lying surface, the animals tread the manure downwards at the correct stocking density onto a flat surface, which is cleaned regularly, i.e. daily. This is done with automatic manure removal systems or by pushing it off with a tractor.
Single-room bedded pack barn with raised feeding area for suckler cows
- Livestock-friendly housing system for the professional suckler cow farmer
- Continuous easy access at the feed front to the feed table despite of deep litter
- Separate calving pen for optimum monitoring of the calving
Single-room bedded pack barn for suckler cows
- Simple and animal-friendly livestock housing
- Level surfaces in new sheds may be used alternatively (machine hangar, straw storage)
- Utilisation of old buildings
Open stable concept for horses
- Optimal stable climate for man and horse
- Calm animals through lively social contact
- Rational feed technique
