Flat Barn Milking Parlor
This parlor is a good stepping stone parlor.
Flat barn milking parlor. Another option for a temporary milking system is to set up a temporary flat barn parlor system. The components of the transport system will be described in the direction of milk flow. Flat barns had six or eight cows on either side with feeders in front and 3 or4 milking units per side with the milk going to a bulk milk cooler in the. Flat barn milking systems 0 00 sku a3567 author s douglas j.
Cows exit individually when they are done no waiting for slower cows fast milking up to 56 cows per hour with 1 person in a double four. Flat barn milking facilities can be a good choice for dairies making the transition from milking in a stall barn to milking in an elevated parlor. We milk twice a day and it takes about 1 1 2 hours to complete a milking. Flat barns resemble traditional stanchion or tiestall barns with permanently mounted milking equipment and fewer milking stalls.
That s 7 to 8 cows per hour per stall provides rapid dairy expansion at 10 12 the cost of a parlor pit gravity operated no air rams hydraulics or springs to depend on can use existing barns increased cow and operator comfort reduced labor flat. I had a contractor come in and do the cement work and stall install. Kenneth bolton brian j. The rubber or silicone insert in each teat cup is referred to as a liner or inflation the liner should milk cows safely with a minimal number of squawks from downward slippage and without.
This eliminates carrying units from stall to stall. Milking parlors and stanchion barn pipelines have similar systems for transporting milk from the cow to the bulk tank. We milk 90 cows 85 holsteins 5 jerseys in a free stall barn with a flat parlor. The one that purchased this farm moved in with his wife and and son from ohio bringing a nice herd of holsteins and built the only true flat barn milking parlor in the area photo above.
The flat barn parlor cost 20000 with used auto take offs and stalls. I plan to build a brand new low line pit parlor some day. For example if the farmer has five milking units 10 tie stalls can be identified with a milking unit shared between two adjacent stalls.