Most cows in North America are housed in confinement facilities with free stalls or tie stalls. Stalls should be adequately designed with appropriate dimensions and have appropriate surface and ...

Harvesting milk is the final step in the milk production process on the farm. Whether milking cows in a parlor, a tie stall, or another setup, proper milking procedure is critical to ensure food ...

Since then, the fourth-generation family dairy has grown in more ways than one. What started as a 70-cow tie-stall dairy, has grown today to 2,600 mature cows on multiple sites despite facing ...

Additionally, this area contains a Vet Room to keep medications, and a cow chute with lighting for veterinary treatment. There are two tie-stall barns, one with 32 stalls and the other with 40 stalls ...

For the past 30 years, Brian and Wendy milked 140 cows in a tie-stall barn. When Tyler came back free stall barn was built with a double-12 parallel parlor. Space was left in the parlor to expand to a ...

Data either published or studies conducted between 2003 and 2022. 2. Cows had ad-libitum (free choice) access to feed. 3. No marker generated data. 4. No metabolism or tie stall data. 5. Only studies ...

Our recent epidemiological studies conducted on Canadian tie-stalls farms that do not provide open air exercise or pasture access reported that on average 40% of the cows show injuries on at least one ...