What's in Your Livestock Shed?

摘要

Involving a team of professionals including vets and building experts in the design of a new calf shed has helped a Welsh dairy farm create fit-for-purpose housing for rearing itsfuture heifer replacements. Andrew Richards, a third-generation farmerat family-run Penhill Farm at Ferryside, hadbeen housing heifers in traditional farmbuildings.These were poorly ventilated, resulting in a high incidence of pneumonia and compromising performance.