DE9319583U1 - Variable waiting room for neck frame stables with use for calves - Google Patents

Description

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The variable waiting room partition is suitable for conventional neck frame tie stalls. Conventional tie stalls either have a pipe milking system, or two separate waiting rooms, or are equipped with a vulnerable catch neck frame.

The invention specified in the protection claim is based on the problem that two separate waiting rooms, one in front of the milking parlor, for the animals still to be milked and a waiting room after the milking parlor, for the milked cows, would take up too much space and be too expensive, so that many farms that wanted to use the advantages of the milking parlor have stuck with the pipe milking system.

This problem was solved by the variable waiting room partition.

The invention reduces space and costs by 50%. It also means that the advantages of the milking parlor, such as easier work and better milk hygiene, can be used. In addition, the animals' movement has a positive effect on their general health, fertility (heat detection) and calving behavior.

Description

First, the heifers are locked in the feeding fence (2) and the cows to be milked are driven together from the tie-stall (11) into the waiting room A (9). The milked cows are let from the milking parlor (10) into the waiting room B (8). The slope of the rails (7) drives the herd still to be milked towards the milking parlor (10) and creates space for the milked animals. Once all the animals have been milked, they are driven from the waiting room B (8) back into the tie-stall (11) and locked in at once. The separation fence (5) is then fixed and the heifers can be let out again.

Variable waiting room for neck-frame stalls with use for heifers

1 Feed belt/feed table 7 Guide rail

2 Feeding grid 8 Waiting room B

3 Calf feeding area 9 Waiting room A

4 Heifer group separation 10 Milking parlor

5 Variable separation grid 11 Tie barn

6 Variable waiting room 12 Separation chain

Claims (1)

Protection claims ··· · ·· * 1. Variable waiting room partition to separate milked animals and those still to be milked, which are stored twice, left and right on the rails, characterized, that the waiting room partition (5) is freely movable, the variable slatted floor space (6) regulates the space ratios of the two groups, that the slatted floor area with fixed separation grids can be used by two groups of heifers during the milking-free period.