milking parlours
Create the perfect environment for your dairy cattle: Part 10 – Rapid-exit milking parlours and regulations
Rapid-exit parlours are designed to improve the efficiency of fishbone and parallel parlours. All the cows on the one side of the parlour are let out simultaneously in a direction perpendicular to the direction to which they entered the parlour. This saves the labourer time in letting out the[...]
Create the perfect environment for your dairy cattle – Part 8: Milking parlours and related structures
by Eksteen Lindeque and Petrus Britz (Pr. Eng.) There is a wide variety of options to choose from when constructing a dairy parlour. These parlours are costly to build; therefore, you will mostly find them on commercial dairy farms. When milking only a few cows for household purposes, it[...]