Heifer Housing Design and Management Options Designing Facilities to Enhance Heifer Performance. David W. Kammel Brian Holmes BSE- UW-Madison

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1 Heifer Housing Design and Management Options Designing Facilities to Enhance Heifer Performance David W. Kammel Brian Holmes BSE- UW-Madison

2 Heifer Housing and Management Goals Minimize: death loss overall pathogen exposure respiratory disease GI tract disease hoof and inter-digital disease joint and skeletal abnormalities stress

3 Calf and Heifer Management Plan Define the desired management groups Define the number of animals in each group Grouping based on: Comfort and environmental needs Nutrition needs Health needs Reproductive status Movement between groups Define the management protocols (chores) List Needs (and wants) of the Owner Determine facility features that will allow implementation of the management pla

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6 Housing Options for Heifers Pasture Open lots or mounds with Feeding platform Bedded pens with feeding platform Self cleaning floor pens (bedded) Free stall pens with feeding platform 3 row pen/ 6 row barn 2 row pen/ 4 row barn

7 Pasture

8 Feeding Platform

9 Feeding Barrier Design

10 Outside Lots and Feeding Platform 8' High Windbreak Water Open Bedded Area s.f./ cow Alley Drive By Feed Platform Large Round or Square bales Optional Roof Water Optional Roof Fence to Limit Access from Alley side only 36' 12' 14' 120' Remodeled to This North 120' Roofed Bedded Area s.f./ cow 36' Fence to Limit Access from Alley side only Water Water Alley Optional Roof 12' Drive By Feed Platform Optional Roof 14'

11 Outside Lots and Feeding Platform

12 Outside Lots Shelter

13 Outside Lots and Feeding Platform

14 Open Lots and Cattle Mounds 190'-0" 20'-0" 70'-0" 40'-0" 40'-0" 40'-0" 36'-0" WB = Windbreak Spaced Steel Sheets Open Lots, Mounds and Windbreaks 30'-0" WB Mound Slope Mound Slope Mound Slope Down Down Down Mound WB WB WB months Mound space = 78 s.f. per head 25 months Mound Space = 84 s.f. per head months Mound Space = 84 s.f. per head Slope Down WB months Mound Space = 84 s.f. per head Optional Bedding John & Andrew Judd Farm Mt. Vernon, WI Heifer Facility North 9'-6" Manure Collection Scrape Alley Slope 2% 12'-0" 12'-0" Calf Building 12'-0" 29'-6" Apron WB Mound Mound Mound Mound Mound Bedding Storage months 7 weaned calves Cattle Chute 30'-0" Water Water Water 14'-6" Manure Collection Scrape Alley Slope 2% 14'-6" Post and Rail Headlocks Headlocks Post and Rail 18'-0" Drive By Feeding Platform 18'-0"

15 Open Lots and Cattle Mounds

16 Open Lots and Cattle Mounds

17 Open Lots w/ Shelter

18 Open Lots w/ Shelter

19 Bedded Pen Outside Lot Feeding

20 Remodeled Barn Resting Space

21 Remodeled Barnyard Feeding Platform

22 Remodeled Barnyard Feeding Platform

23 Bedded Pen (Outside lot feeding)

24 Bedded Pen (Outside yard)

25 Bedded Pen with outside lot and feeding

26 Bedded Pen with outside lot and feeding

27 Remodeled Machine Shed for Beef

28 Remodeled Machine Shed for Beef Machine shed outside lots

29 Machine shed outside lots Remodeled Machine Shed for Beef

30 Bedded Pen Barn with drive by feeding

31 Bedded Pen with drive-by feeding

32 Bedded Pen with drive-by feeding

33 Bedded Pen with drive- through feeding

34 Bedded Pen with drive- through feeding

35 Bedded Pen with drive-thru feeding

36 Bedded Pen Lean to Drive By Feeding

37 Bedded Pen Lean to Drive By Feeding Remodeled Barn Resting Space

38 Remodeled Barn Resting Space

39 Bedded Pen Lean to Drive By Feeding Remodeled Barn Feeding Platform

40 Remodeled Barn Feeding Platform

41 Bedded Pen (Self Cleaning Floor) 12'-0" 12'-0" 12'-0" 12'-0" 12'-0" 12'-0" Curtain Sidewall 12'-0" 12'- 16'-0" 10 Head per Pen Floor SLope 1" per 12" 28'-0" Waterer 4-8" Drop 12'-0" 12' Gate Swing Slope Alley 2% 8'-0" Open Front North

42 Bedded Pen Self Cleaning Floor with drive-by feeding

43 Bedded Pen Self Cleaning Floor with drive-by feeding

44 Remodeled Bedded Pen

45 Bedded Pen

46 Bedded Pen

47 Bedded Pen Calf Housing Small Group Pens

48 Covered Barnyard Covered Barnyard

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54 Freestall Pens with drive-by feeding

55 Freestall Pens with drive-by feeding

56 Freestall Pens with outside lots and outside feeding

57 Freestall Pens with outside lots and outside feeding

58 Freestall Pen with outside feeding

59 Freestall Pen with outside feeding

60 Freestall Pen with outside feeding

61 Freestall Pen with inside feeding

62 Bedded Pen with inside feeding

63 Freestall Pen with inside feeding

64 Freestall pens with drive-thru feeding

65 Freestall Pen Manure Collection

66 Freestall Barn Split Group Pens

67 Freestall Barn Freestall Barn Split Group pens Cost

68 Freestall Barn Freestall Barn Split Group pens Cost

69 Bedded Freedom Platforms

70 Bedded Freedom Platforms

71 Remodeled Freestall Barn

72 Remodeled Freestall Barn

73 Remodeled Freestall Barn

74 Remodel Tie Stall barn into Freestall barn

75 Remodel Tie Stall barn into Freestall barn

76 Build Facilities That: Facilitate a management Plan Provide: A clean, dry environment Fresh air, feed, & water Are: Labor efficient and easy to use Economical Safe for both workers and cows Environmentally friendly

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