Posted by blinwmi on February 09, 2009 at 19:15:55 from (24.231.255.33):
In Reply to: Hard day today posted by JayinNY on February 09, 2009 at 16:58:43:
I have to disagree with the other guys, I will take a comfort tiestall barn anyday. Its a whole lot easier to push the button on the gutter cleaner and in 20 minutes its all taken care of while I do something else. I can stay inside the whole time mixing feed and in 30 minutes of driving the feed cart around, everyone is fed. Freestall/parlor setups where cows are walking and standing in slop all day is for the birds. Having to always be outside in the weather getting feed and feeding calves isn't fun for anyone. I have had barns that had the water bowls facing both directions, my first an old stanchion barn with the bowls to the gutter. The water bowls were hard plumbed in so unless a cow hit the pipe hard enough to break it, it was pretty slop free. I had a pretty steep chute to the gutter cleaner so it took alot of sawdust to get it cleaned up when there was a leak. The second setup had all the bowls forward over a recessed manger. Each manger had a drain in the end furthest from the milk house with a 3 inch PVC plug in the drain. These drains went and drained into the gutter. This barn had a liquid setup with slurrystore and inground pump in the barn so there was no gutter chute to have to go up. This was by far the best setup because you never had to worry about stall beds being wet and even if the manger was wet, it was easy to correct. The only bad thing is each bowl was fed by a 14" piece of hose off the topline. And hose just finds the worst time to burst.
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