(a) It is the bedded area, responsible for favorable health condition in loose housing system. (e) Space required for manger per cow is 50 to 60 cm. (d) Feed manger should be so constructed that hay cannot be pulled back on the floor. (c) The floor should have slope of 3.0 cm/m from the manger to the back of paved area. (b) Feeding area must be close and convenient to milking parlour because it can serve as a holding area for the cows during milking. Although silage may also be fed here but often it is fed outside in feed bunks of paved yards. (a) It is usually covered shed where cows are fed dry feed like hay.
The milking plant, which includes milking parlor or milking room, milk house, concentrate storage and utility room. The bedded area, pen space and bedding storage.Ĥ. It consists of four units for a successful layout as follows (Fig. The floor, manger and water trough requirement are given in Table Requisite:Īll animals kept in loose house must be dehorned. (d) Housing requirement/animal (See Table 44.1 and 44.2):įollowing would be strength of herd for 100 milk animals and followers:Ĭomparative Merits of Loose Housing and Cow House (Bam System): The layout of dairy farm building is presented in Fig. Layout of plots must be such that it is easy to irrigate without soil erosion.
All plots must be well connected to roads and irrigation channels.Ĥ.
Number and size of plots must be according to cropping rotations/plan.ģ. Operation on farm must be easy and economic to carry out.Ģ.