Posted by formenwhogrow on July 29, 2015 at 07:20:05 from (72.23.240.77):
In Reply to: dairy setups posted by 730virgil on July 28, 2015 at 19:35:52:
I live in what used to be predominantly a dairy farming are so I thought I would weigh in here. In the last 20 years I have seen the number of dairies in my small area decrease from around 25 smaller farms(100 cows or less) to around a dozen or so left in the biz. Lots of guys updated to small parlor a and free stalls back in the 80s but most kept the stall barns and added a free stall area and simply switch cows. I milked for a guy in high school who had 80 cows in a 53 tie stall barn (the from half was 26 stalls and the back half was 27) and we would start milking in the back of the barn and once we got the last unit to the front, one guy would go and chase cows out of all the stalls in the back and move some gates and chase in 27 more cows, get them in stalls, tie them, and scrape the walks then come help finish milking. Then the cows needed fed, manure needed scraped, the gutters needed run out, then the heifers and dry cows needed fed on another farm. It took 3-4 men 3 hrs twice a day to milk and feed cows. My point to all this is milking cows in a tie stall barn is very labor intensive and that is one of he leading factors that has led to the demise of the 50-100 cow dairy in this area. All the guys who have updated to parlors and free stalls are still in it.
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