On cold loose housing cattle farms
2001
Kask, H. | Veermae, I. | Poikalainen, V. (Estonian Agricultural Univ., Tartu (Estonia). Inst. of Animal Science)
In spring and summer period 2000, cattle sheds of 26 farmsteads were visited. 18 of the sheds were cold loose housing cattle farms. 13 of which were equipped with milking parlours. The rest were insulated buildings with combined stalls (2), stanchion cattle farms (3) and loose housing cattle farms under construction (3). The average annual milk productivity varied between 3,600 and 6,800 kg per cow. The number of cows varied from 12 to 169. On most farms the number of cows was between 20 and 60. Greater part of the timber used for farm construction had been produced from farmstead forests. The cost of a shed was between 180,000 and 200,000 croons and the number of cow places varied from 40 to 60. It can be concluded that cold loose housing cattle farms are suitable and feasible in given circumstances
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