Herd Health in Free Stalls

Abstract

We use mostly bunker silos. These barns are dirve-through barns and this particular barn holds about two hundred cows, a hundred cows on each side divided into groups of fifty. The cows are in one part, another part is the drive-through, the trucks can drive on both sides. There is a row of free stalls on one side and another row of free stalls on the other side. The hay storage is above the feeding alley. So the hay truck can drive through and put the hay off on either side. One barn has tie stalls or they have tie ups, so herd health is a piece of cake in this herd, they have about an eighty cow herd, I can go in twice a month.