Collecting yard backing gate

Sparkymark

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Were just on building a new collecting yard which will be orientated 90 degrees to the back of the parlour.
Do backing gates work in this scenario or are they only any good directly behind the parlour where you can see the cows moving up?
 

tjzservices

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dorset
In my experience, cow flow is greatly improved by a collection yard that is directly behind, light and airy parlour that cows can see through to where cows are released. Are there reasons to want collecting yard at 90’ to parlour??
 

Sparkymark

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Yeah we are unable to go backwards as there is a major ditch behind. There is enough room behind to hold a couple of sides of cows but they will come in from the side.
 
I work on a 600+ dairy unit with a 90' collecting yard. The cows are pushed in and the backing gate is out down behind them, they get slowly pushed up by person standing watching holding button. That gate comes as far as the edge of the parlour where there is another backing gate on string directly at the back facing parlour. It works well. Cows will always get used to whatever is going on. Would say, it's best to be watching the gates though. There is always one silly sod that will stand wrong, not move, put their head in a gap not big enough....... You know how it is.
 

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