Self-Sufficient and Sustainable Dairy farm (SSS) + Integrated Farming System (IFS) and SSS-IFS and management Self-sustainability and self-sufficiency are overlapping states of being in an organization that needs little or no help from, or interaction with, others. Self-sufficiency entails the self being enough (to fulfill needs), and a self-sustaining entity can maintain self-sufficiency indefinitely. SSS-IFS is our motto for Dairy farming. We handle and support…
Dairy farm walkways Dairy farm walkways floors have a significant effect on cattle locomotion and claw health, as well as on animal behaviour and general cattle house hygiene; and affected both animals’ welfare and dairy farmers’ profit. There are several qualities floors should fulfil, which contemporary walkway floors do not completely do. From an animal point of view,…
There are different milking systems (bucket, trolley, pipeline, little auto tandem, herringbone or parallel parlors) each of them has a different work routine. The number of cows, the financial resource, the skilled workforce, and the availability of time are parameters influencing the selection of the milking system in addition to stall type and milking system…
Intensive dairy farm barns and free stall concept based on animal comfort and welfare to have sustainable and profitable farming with happy and healthy cows. Free stall concept Stalls can be arranged with cows facing one another (head-to-head) or the other way around (tail-to-tail). With the tail-to-tail arrangement, a central cow alley, 2.4 m wide…
TIE-STALL BARNS Tie-stall barns have many advantages when it comes to cow comfort. This type of herd management makes possible a pro-active, individualized approach to each animal and its welfare. It results in faster response time to an animal’s needs and less reliance on medical treatments such as antibiotics. In tie stall barns cows are…
