Cow Houses
Every Cow House project is unique and the benefits to the farmer can be varied depending upon the location, management, feed availability and the animals themselves. Cow House Constructions team can work with you to quantify the advantages for your farm and provide a broader understanding of the specific benefits to your operation.
Cow Houses are not just a short term solution for winter, they are another farming tool that offers a number of possibilities throughout the year to improve farm practices, boost productivity, reduce waste and promote animal wellbeing.
The major reasons to consider a Cow House for your operation are;
Cow Houses
- Improved Animal Health and Cow Condition
- More Efficient Use Of Feed
- Less Waste
- Increased Production
- Improved Fertility
- Less Damage To Pasture
- Less Work and Better Utilization Of Labour
Benefits
- Increase production through better efficiency, better animal welfare and better feeding
- Eliminates the impact of bad weather on production
- Reduces cow movements and fence shifting
- Allows the right balance of energy, proteins and minerals to be delivered in a controlled environment.
- Offers flexibility in farm, pasture and animal management
- Provides opportunities to develop other farm initiatives
- Production gains of 10 – 20% in first year of operation.
- Provides the option of winter milking.
- Ability to extend milking season from 270 days to 305 days
Operation
- Cows are fed supplements indoors every day and can remain undercover if ground or weather conditions are unsuitable for them to be turned out to pasture...
- Feed wagons deposit a premix ration of feed on either side of a central feed lane.
- Cows are free to roam on either side of the feed lane.
- Cows have access to raised sleeping bays with specially designed foam matting that allows them to lie down and rest.
- Individual sleeping bays sized to suit the requirements of the animals.
- Strategically placed drinking troughs throughout the building.
- Rotating back –scratchers to remove dust from their coats.
- Automatic scrapers run on time clocks to drag effluent off the concrete floor towards a central floor channel where the effluent is pumped or flows by gravity to the effluent pond.
- Sludge is stored and spread to pasture when time and soil conditions permit.