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- Four “all-in, all-out” 2-row nursing calf barns
- Supplemental positive pressure ventilation tubes for minimum winter ventilation
- Individual calf pens can be combined into pairs after weaning to introduce individuals to group housing
- Concrete floor is graded from center-outward to promote drainage
- Pens are set away from the sidewalls by 3’6″ (1.1 m) to avoid drafts
- Four single row “all-in, all-out” style nursery calf barns for a 1,000-cow dairy
- Space for 45 calves in each barn
- Supplemental positive pressure ventilation tubes for minimum winter ventilation
- Calves bedded on straw in winter; sand during the summer months
- New “all-in, all-out” automated feeder nursery calf barn
- Naturally ventilated barn with both winter and warm weather supplemental positive pressure tube systems
- Sloped concrete floor to a gravel ditch that runs down the middle of the pens
- Newborn calves housed for 3 to 7 days in individual pens before being moved to the group where they stay until 2 to 3 months of age
- Group nursery calf barn with automated feeders for a 300-cow dairy
- Two pens allows for older and younger groups of calves
- Individual calf pens for housing newborns for about 1 week
- Easy access to grower/post-weaning group pen, separated by a wall from the nursery
- 12′ (3.7 m) curtain sidewall for warm weather natural ventilation
- Supplemental positive pressure ventilation tubes for minimum winter ventilation
