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Co. Dairyman Makes New Stall,
Plans To Produce Commercially
John Kreidor, 523 Willow der her. The single pipe at the
Road,' enlarged his dairy barn front of the stall serves to keep
last October. He planned to put the cow out of the- feed trough
commercial comfort stalls in and doubles as the milker va
the new addition, but after vis- cuum line. From this pipe,
isting several dairy barns in only 35 inches from the floor,
New York state, he decided to is the tie chain with a snap on
build his own stalls. ithe end. The snap can be fas
x After he had the stalls in the tened to the cow’s neck ( chain
barn, he liked them so well at any place, eliminating the
that he decided to replace the need to hunt for the ring on
old stanchions with the new the conventional neck chain
■tails. In addition, neighbors or strap.
doming into the barn were so None of the pipes in the St-
Inupressed with the stalls that all are over 35 inches from the
they asked Kreider to make up floor giving an easy view of all
some for them. The demand the cows in the barn.
Was great enough to encourage For this reason, and the ease
Kreider to go into the produ'c- of working around the cows,
tion of t)he stalls on a part Kreider has decided to call his
time basis and he has sold al- stall the Show-ease stall,
most 200 of them to date
Kreider said he decided to
The stall, while retaining pu t the stalls in the addition to
many of the features of a con- the barn, but 'his father was
ventional dairy barn, are sim- hard to convince. He was cer
ple in design and offer many itain the cows would get on th
advantages not found in so- e ir knees to eat since the one
called comfort stalls or the ‘bar at the front of the stall
more conventional stanchions, would be above the cow’s neck.
Only one pipe is in front of He also thought the cows
the cow, offering a clear view would have more chance to s't
of the cow and the bedding un- eal feed from their neighbors.
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A WIDE OPEN BARN is one of the features of the new stall created by John
Kreider, Willow' Road. Kreider says the full view of the cow in the stall is one of
the features he likes best about the new stall. Cows stay cleaner, but don’t have as
much udder injury as they did in the conventional stanchions. L. F. Photo.
tout, Kreider says, neither has anchions. toarn and cuts down on tramped
happened. The cows eat with But even though the cows teats. “We have had only one
no difficulty and they can not can not steal feed, they (have tramped teat al winter in the
reach as far from side to side more freedom of movement, new stalls.” he said,
as the cows in conventional st- This causes less unrest in the (Continued on Page 10)
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