❇️ Freestalls are a place for dairy cows to lie down and rest. Most of these animals are not restrained in this space and can enter or exit as they like. In a free stall, food and water are not provided, so an animal that wants to eat or drink must leave this environment and go to the feeding area.
The benefits of using freestal livestock
Freestall construction space
Individual location (freestall) is a clean, dry and comfortable bed for dairy and other animals to lie down. The use of this storage system does not restrict the animals from staying in one place, but it makes it more comfortable when passing through the animal husbandry hall and provides better welfare than before. The resting and lying down of cows, which usually consists of five periods (about 10 hours of rest), determines the standard of building a free stall to raise the level of hygiene and cleanliness and prevent disease and animal injuries. br>Free stall
Free stall construction space
After entering, the way the animal sits and stands inside the free stall is one of the main points of the free stall design. Three areas must be considered in the free stall space for animals:
- body space
- head space
- rising space
when the animal is lying down inside the free stall, the main space of the stall fills the head and body of the animal. For this reason, the length and width of the free stall and paying attention to the comfort of the animal during construction are very important. Rise space inside the free stall becomes important when the animal intends to rise and stand in the free stall. This means that the animal needs more space than sleeping to get up inside the stall.