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<blockquote data-quote="hillsdown" data-source="post: 696551" data-attributes="member: 5106"><p>All milking cows were housed in the free stall barn where they received tmr only. We fed grain while milking it was set up that when the cows come in you push a button and grain would go into each stalls individual feeder, but contrary to popular belief they sh@t just as much not less so we stopped.</p><p></p><p>In the freestall barn the milking parlor was housed inside as well so the cows were gotten up while we raked stalls and moved into the holding area.</p><p></p><p>The fresh cows even heifers were moved into the maternity pen in the freestall barn a few days before they calved ..Usually our first calvers were really good to go into the parlor ,the odd ding bat that needed a hard lesson, but because I spent so much time with them from day one and they were handled quite often as heifers (100% were AI'd at least once) they were quite calm and reasonable..</p><p></p><p>In fact the new owners only complaint about the herd is that they were too calm.. :? Calm cattle make for lot's of milk. :nod: </p><p></p><p>I will have to dig up some pics ,they have to be around here somewhere ,to show our set up. We were not large by any means we only milked around 130 ,but we liked the set up where you do not have to move cows from place to place all the time ,as it wastes too much time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hillsdown, post: 696551, member: 5106"] All milking cows were housed in the free stall barn where they received tmr only. We fed grain while milking it was set up that when the cows come in you push a button and grain would go into each stalls individual feeder, but contrary to popular belief they sh@t just as much not less so we stopped. In the freestall barn the milking parlor was housed inside as well so the cows were gotten up while we raked stalls and moved into the holding area. The fresh cows even heifers were moved into the maternity pen in the freestall barn a few days before they calved ..Usually our first calvers were really good to go into the parlor ,the odd ding bat that needed a hard lesson, but because I spent so much time with them from day one and they were handled quite often as heifers (100% were AI'd at least once) they were quite calm and reasonable.. In fact the new owners only complaint about the herd is that they were too calm.. :? Calm cattle make for lot's of milk. :nod: I will have to dig up some pics ,they have to be around here somewhere ,to show our set up. We were not large by any means we only milked around 130 ,but we liked the set up where you do not have to move cows from place to place all the time ,as it wastes too much time. [/QUOTE]
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