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Bruce from Can.

Bruce from Can.

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Woodville, Ontario, Canada
When I added these 32 stalls in 2015, we didn?t use a pipe head rail. I simply huge a chain on eye bolts to the post, and hung cow tie chains from it. I have also put the water bowls in the stall, instead of the manger, for ease of feeding as well as manger cleaning. The water line that feeds the bowls is layer into a grove cast into the concrete when the curb is poured. After the water line was laid into the curb, we just covered it with a couple inches of mortar. This way if there is ever a leak you can just chip out the mortar. This picture was taken before the milk line and track were installed, and no cattle had pooped on the floor yet, lol. Stalls have pasture mats, and to feed the cows I unroll a 4x4 haulage bale by hand. Bit of a grunt for the first few feet, but not too bad.
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Nice. We went to an open house for a dairy once. It too was before the cows pooped.lol.interesting that there aren?t any gutters.
 
That looks great, Bruce. I like how the cows face each other. You use the skid steer to scrape out the manure?

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Yes we scrape with a skid steer in this section of the cow barn. Main barn has a Berg gutter cleaner for 73 cows. This has worked well enough, but if I was going to keep milking cows in this new section long term, I would get someone in to put down rubber matting in the scrape alley, it can be slippery for cows sometimes.
 
I always thought tie stall barns would be a more pleasant way to milk cows in winter in the north country. But I see some are going to freestall barns- how do they keep teats from freezing at 30 below?
 
In the modern free stall barns there are enough cows that there body heat keeps the barns warm. Heck even in our small 40 cow free stall barn 40 years ago the cows keep warm. The water lines where not insulated so they never froze. When we hauled feed we where on a lot of dairy farms all across WI and IA. 95% where all free stall barns with milking parlors. A free stall barn and parlor reduces the labor per cow dramatically.
 
Freezing is dramatically reduced if the teats are dry when the cows go outside. Just like birthing calves...keep them dry and out of the wind.
 
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