Housing Concepts

A healthy raise of calves is the basis for an efficiency-oriented and therefore commercial dairy farming. A lot of calves die due to respiratory and intestinal infections.  The main causes are: high humidity combined with increased harmful gas concentration, drafts as well as overcrowding in the different barn areas (infection pressure). There is no need to accept it.

The housing of the calves shall be designed so that the natural preparedness and resilience will be encouraged and strengthened. You need to encourage the active immunization of calves against infectious diseases. At the same time you should consider the management of food and water allocation as well as the increase of labor efficiency during the planning. To achieve this GEA Farm Technologies is planning, for you and your calves, suitable barn concepts.