Automatic detaches are utilized to remove teat cups from the cow. Separate spray hoses are used for washing the udder and for post-milk teat sanitation. Cow information, milk weights and milking times are electronically transferred to computers in the herd manager's office for storage of the individual cow data. Milk is cooled and stored in a 2,000 gallon stainless steel bulk tank. Holding areas include both an incoming area with crowd gate and a return holding pen for up to 30 cows.
Equipment includes an electronic livestock scale with entrance traffic lane and gating.
Four animal tie rings are available along one wall. The area is also designed for teaching dairy management skills and techniques. Ceiling air intakes pull in air from the attic ducts through adjustable inlets which are located on one side of the barn. This air is pulled across the barn and exhausted with both summer and winter exhaust fans along the wall of both barns housing the lactating dairy cows. The calf barn utilized heat tempered air in the winter which is ducted to adjustable ceiling inlets and then exhausted via wall fans.