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Ideas for new baby calf barn .holsteins
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Posted 7/22/2017 20:41 (#6142916 - in reply to #6142373)
Subject: RE: Ideas for new baby calf barn .holsteins


west michigan
An idea I saw when looking at barns before we built our auto feeder calf barn used wire panels bent into a "U" shape and then a short panel clipped to the front to make a hinged gate. The farm had a line of these in a greenhouse. Each one was separated by a couple feet. To clean, all they did was pick up and set the pens off to one side and then drive through with a skid loader scooping the manure/bedding out. Quick and easy. We copied this idea for our starting pens for calves before entering the auto feeder. You could make them any size you wanted, and it leaves the barn completely flexible for any changes in needs over time. Here is a picture of what ours look like. They work great and don't impact air quality at all.



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