Freestall barn for dairy cows
Everything for the cow comfort
Today it is indisputable that dairy cows only achieve high performance and lead a long productive life if the cow comfort is optimal.
Cow comfort means:
- 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
- Sufficient water supply with easily accessible drinking troughs
- Skid-proof surface without sharp edges and with easy dunging
- Good lighting conditions
- Provision for grooming behaviour with cow brushes
- Resting space for transit and calving cows and additional areas depending on the lactation stage or feeding technique (transponder/TMR)
Functional dimensions in the dairy shed
| Cubicle length to a wall | 2.70 - 2.80 m |
| Cubicle length face to face | 2.30 - 2.50 m |
| Cubicle width | ± 1.25 m |
| Cubicle depth (to brisket board) | ± 1.85 m |
| Neck bar (from edge) | ± 1.85 m |
| Cubicles per animal | 1:1 |
| Alley width resting area | 2.50 - 3.00 m |
| Alley width feeding area | 4.00 - 5.00 m |
| Cross-walk | ± 2.50 m |
| Cross-walk with trough | 3.00 - 4.20 m |
| Feed spaces per animal | 1:1 bis 1:1.2 |
| Feed space width | 0.65 - 0.80 m |
| Height feed table wall | 50 - 55 cm |
| Height feed table (above floor) | 15 - 20 cm |
| Height neckbar (cubicle) | ± 1.25 m |
Functional dimensions young cattle
| Cubicles: | ||||
| Age (months) | 4 - 6 | 7 - 12 | 13 - 18 | > 18 |
| Weight | 130 - 200 kg | 200 - 350 kg | 350 - 500 kg | > 500 kg |
| Width | 75 cm | 95 cm | 105 cm | 120 cm |
| Cubicle length | 150 cm | 180 cm | 200 cm | 230 cm |
| Cubicle Divider length | 130 cm | 150 cm | 180 cm | > 200 cm |
| Feed Front: | ||||
| Age (months) | 4 - 6 | 7 - 12 | 13 - 18 | > 18 |
| Feed space width | 40 cm | 50 cm | 60 cm | 70 cm |
| Neck width | 10 cm | 12 cm | 16 cm | 19 cm |
| Height feed table wall |
30 cm | 40 cm | 40 cm | 55 cm |
More Planning Examples
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 fix installed boxes
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.
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
