What is the best and most simple layout?

[Dairyman Steve]

Dear All

Please could anyone tell me what is the best, most simple layout and best sized parlour for a 150 cow dairy herd housed on straw yards and milked in a herringbone parlour please?

Regards

Dairyman Steve

 

[J B]

Sorry, your question isn't very clear to my brain.
What 'layout' exactly are you seeking advice on?
Parlour? you already say you want a herringbone??
Buildings? You already say you want straw yards??
Feeding?

Or am I getting the wrong end of the stick??

 

[jimmer]

are you green field and starting afresh or do you have limiting factors

a f**k off big shed to house them in with feeding both sides so they have to walk less distance to food

a parlour at one end with wide passages either side to push them to a collecting yard at the furthest end ,so they walk out of the parlour straight through the seg area to their housing , no corners after the parlour except for seg cows

 

[jimmer]

green field i would go 40/80

yep 40/80

four sides job done and plenty of spare capacity for when you expand

 

[Dairyman Steve]

Sorry, your question isn't very clear to my brain.
What 'layout' exactly are you seeking advice on?
Parlour? you already say you want a herringbone??
Buildings? You already say you want straw yards??
Feeding?

Or am I getting the wrong end of the stick??

Basically the overall layout, building design and layout for straw yards and where you would put the herringbone parlour in relation to the housing. Also whether a central feed passage is best or perimeter feeding.

 

[Dairyman Steve]

green field i would go 40/80

yep 40/80

four sides job done and plenty of spare capacity for when you expand

Can you sketch the layout you describe please?

 

[jimmer]

 

[jimmer]

after thinking about it the cows would only be able to go up one side of the parlour as you need access to the dairy via a clean route ideally
circular backing gate so there is bugger all to go wrong
feed both sides with overhang and open sides (auto curtains if you are exposed)

 

[rob1]

Parlour at one end with two 30 ft wide monopitch buildings with a covered feed passage down the middle, easy to expand by just adding on to the bedded area

 

[S J H]

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Is that drawing to scale @jimmer ?

If I was to design one, I'd be thinking milk to the front of the building. Shite to the back.

Feed to the outside, to save walls and concrete and better for ventilation.

 

[jimmer]

Is that drawing to scale @jimmer ?

If I was to design one, I'd be thinking milk to the front of the building. Shite to the back.

Feed to the outside, to save walls and concrete and better for ventilation.

it not the scale that is wrong its the piece of paper the wrong size/shape

as much underground sh!t storage as possible

 

[rob1]

it not the scale that is wrong its the piece of paper the wrong size/shape

as much underground sh!t storage as possible

I used to think underground slurry was good but with all these deaths from people getting gassed i dont think i eould have one noe

 

[Dry Rot]

Back in my student days we were urged to draw a rough plan (as you have done) and then sketch in "desire lines". That is, imagine a normal day's work and plot where you would travel to do each job and how, the logic being you don't want the feed store the longest distance from where you are feeding or the slurry pit with no access or all the levels and falls wrong! I've seen mistakes made in setting out the falls and that can massively increase your work load when you are trying to push water up hill! Apart from that, I haven't a clue.

 

[jimmer]

I used to think underground slurry was good but with all these deaths from people getting gassed i dont think i eould have one noe

i think most of these deaths as unfortunate as they are were in circumstances where there were mistakes/faults made by the victims. it also seems to be in older systems where safety features werent what they are today

 

[llamedos]

lots of threads going on here all with a similar theme

http://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?search/5086310/

 

[Dairyman Steve]

Have you got a

Parlour at one end with two 30 ft wide monopitch buildings with a covered feed passage down the middle, easy to expand by just adding on to the bedded area[/

Parlour at one end with two 30 ft wide monopitch buildings with a covered feed passage down the middle, easy to expand by just adding on to the bedded area

Have you got any drawings?