Patent ID: 9179641
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. A dairy animal loose-housing barn for keeping dairy animals, comprising a space where the dairy animals can freely move about and lie down, a light-transmitting roof construction above the space, a wall construction, controllable ventilation mechanism, a floor below the space, the floor comprising a bottom liquid-tight lower layer with, provided thereon, a top layer comprising a lower pourable layer of a moisture absorbing material having a thickness of at least 20 centimeters and an upper layer of at least one of compost and manure, and one or more milking implements on a stationary sub-floor, the stationary sub-floor having a manure collecting device, wherein a grid or concrete floor is only present below the one or more milking implements, wherein a floor heating system is provided in the top layer of the floor; wherein the floor heating system has a heating capacity which, near at least one of: the wall construction, and the stationary sub-floor below the milking implement, at least at the transition of the floor in the space to said stationary sub-floor, is larger than an average heating capacity as determined for the entire floor.