Adult Cow Barn A

New lactating barn expansion
8-row barn with 8 pens, 2-row tail-to-tail
148 stallpens
Cross-ventilated barn
3 feed alleys
Single beam mounted stalls, 8′ 6″ (2.6 m) long by 50″ (1.3 m) wide for mature cows
Floor grooving 0.75″ (1.9 cm) wide by 0.5″ (1.2 cm) deep on 3.25″ (8.3) centers

Adult Cow Barn B

New lactating cow barn addition
6-row barn with 4 x 3-row pens of 85 stalls each
Stalls 10′ (3.1 m) long against the side-wall and 17′ (5.2 m) head to head platform, all 50″ (1.3 m) wide
14′ feed alley and 14′ crossovers
Pack Mat stall base with 2″ (5cm) of sand bedding
36″ (91.4 cm) exterior diameter divider loops with concrete brisket slope

91-stall, deep sand-bedded freestall barn
One-sided barn with a single 3-row pen
Pen can be split to provide 30 stalls to separate first lactation from mature cows
Cows have access to pasture when the weather permits
Stalls are 50″ (1.3 m) wide on center
Registered Brown Swiss herd growing from within while also starting up a farmstead cheese business

3-row pen, lactating cow barns remodeled from mattress stalls to deep sand bedding
18″ (45.7 cm) lunge space addition built on to the sidewalls
Head-to-head stall platforms in the first barn extended 1′ (30.5 cm) into feed alley for mature Holstein cows
4 x 4-inch treated lumber bedding retainer was anchored to existing stall platforms in the second barn for first lactation Holstein cows
Single beam-mounted freestall divider loops were installed at 50″ (1.3 m) on center for mature cows, 48″ (1.2 m) on center for first lactation cows

New 4-row freestall barn with two 2-row head-to-head pens for a Holstein herd milking 200 cows
110 stalls per pen with 48″ (122 cm) and 50″ (127 cm) wide stalls on center to accommodate cow size variation
32″ (81 cm) interior diameter divider loops mounted on center beams
14′ (4.3 m) feed alley and 14′ (4.3 m) crossovers
LED barn lighting
Manure empties into a 2-stage gravity manure pit with a capacity of 2.4 million gallons (9.1 million liters)