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Stall Barn Management Factors
It. spite of Hie innv.i'v m five
s’.ill housing. the corneiUion.il
nt.ill h.nn continues to be f.i
-\oikl by Pennsylvania dairymen
who opei.ite family sired f.nms.
aceoidmg to IVnn State dany
officials
Thoiefoie. investigations con
ceinod with the best method of
using bedding and rubber mats
in stalls have been continued at
the Dany Pioduclion Center
Over the past 10.veais. bedding
lequiiemcnts have been reduced
to one-half, or less. b> the instal
lation of commeicial mbbei
mats
However, other factors in
volved in managing today’s dairy
cattle can reduce, or even eli
minate, the advantage of savings
in bedding when health and san
itation pioblems are increased
Seveial of these management
factois weie investigated in
studies conducted during the past
tluee years under vvintei housing
conditions
Obseivations in recent studies
indicate that management prac
tices hold the key to stall bain
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Pi aline Sauce —uch as the famed
Southern candy, fluffy Marsh
mallow Sauce, and that old
smoothie, peanut buttei in a
saucy new guise
Stir one up next time you serve
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Praline Sauce: In a 1-quait
saucepan melt 14 cup ( Vz stick)
buttei add % cup bi oken pecans
and saute until lightly toasted
Add 14 cup fhmly packed light
biown sugai and 2 tablespoons
light coin syiup, cook ovei medi
um heat, Stirling constantly,
until mixtuie boils and sugai is
melted Giadually add Vz cup
evapoiated milk Remove fiom
heat, blend in Vz teaspoon
vanilla Yield l v 4 cups
Marshmallow Sauce; In IV2-
quait saucepan combine Vz cup
sugai, 14 cup water and 14 cup
light coin syrup Bung to boil,
1 educe heat and simmei 5 min
utes Remove fiom heat, add 1
cup mimatuie maishmallows and
stn until melted In small mixing
bowl beat 2 egg whites until soft
peaks foim Continue to beat
while giadually adding hot
syiup Covei and chill If sauce
sepai ates, mix until smooth
Yield 2 Vz cups
For Maishmallow Mint Sauce
Aftei adding syiup to egg whites,
blend in 14 teaspoon peppeimmt
extiact and a few diops of gieen
food coloung to tint pale gieen
Peanut Butter Ice Cream
Sauce: In 1 quait saucepan com
bine 1 cup sugai Vz cup water
and cup light coin syiup,
bi mg to boil and cook ovei low
heat until 220 F on candy
thei mometei Remove fiom heat
or candy thei mometei Place 14
cool without staling to 100 F
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bedding economics, lather tinniest with the larger bleeds. Hoi
the amount of bedding piovided stem and Brown Swiss
e. eh day Incidence of visible hock in
;E\perimcnt Conducted jury was negligible where medi-
Lactating cows housed in 160 um particle sawdust was used in
individual stalls weie checked combination with good stall man
weekly over a 10-week study agement conditions
period for visible hock injuries. Coarse sawdust particles, hard-
Five biccds of dairy cattle were wood chips, and hardwood shav
observed under various stall and mgs exhibited a tendency to roll
bedding management conditions, on smooth surfaces during nor-
Seveial haidwood products mal up and down movements of
chips, shavings, coarse and me- cows. This rolling effect caused
dium particle sawdust were abrasive action to hock areas
used for bedding. Appioximately When the cows were lying down,
one-half of the stalls were equip- coarse hardwood shavings and
ped with commeicial rubber chips often caused skin punc
mats. tuies due to the high ridged
The degree of hock injury was aieas of iubber mats,
most noticeable under the follow- Moisture from leaking water
ing conditions: (1) when large bowls and urine accumulation of
amounts of bedding were applied cattle housed in improperly ad
to rubber mats; (2) where un- justed stalls also helped to ag
even distiibution of bedding giavate hock inflammations,
caused accumulations to occur in Bedding economy studies were
the forward portions of stalls; conducted dm ing two winter
(3) when even small quantities seasons to compare gut
of hardwood chips or shavings { el . g ra t es versus open gutters in
were used; and (4) where wet vvo cow S (- a ]j barns
bedding conditions existed Se- stalls were equipped with
verity of hock injury was great- rubber mats .
Daily bedding applications
ranged from 1.6 pounds pei cow
in gutter grate equipped groups
to 23 4 pounds per cow m open
gutter groups Up to 44.5 per
cent of the sawdust was applied
dn ectly to open gutters for man
agement purposes in the latter
groups
cup peanutbutter in small mixing Adjust Water Bowl
bowl, giadually add syiup while Seveial interesting, and simi
beatmg at medium speed If lai, patterns of obseivation weie
sauce is refngeiated, warm to disclosed during the two-yeai
room temperatuie before seiv- study
ing Yield IVz cups Cleanliness of cows in all
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groups was related to two man
agement factors—adjustment of
stall facilities to individual cows
and adjustment of water bowls
to pi event leakage and spillage
problems, lather than to the
amounts of bedding applied daily
per cow.
Staining of cows was also a
problem in low bedding groups
where manuie accumulations ex
isted on grates.
Gutter Grates—Fewer Problems
During the first year eight
cows were treated for hock in
jury, three contracted foot rot
pioblems, and three cows sus
tained severe udder injuries
from jumping gutteis when en
tering stalls in the open gutter
barn.
During the second year’s study
twelve cows developed hock in
jures, three cases of foot rot
were Heated, and four udder in
juries resulted from jumping
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open gutters in these same un
limited bedding groups
In comparison, no udder in
juries were reported and no new
cases of foot rot developed over
the two year study period in the
low or restricted bedding groups
where stalls were equipped with
glitter grates.
Hock injury treatments were
reported for three cows during
the first year and four cows
during the second year.
These latter cases of hock in
jury were directly attributed to
wet stall conditions where mois
ture accumulations were a con
stant management problem.
These findings were reported
earlier this year by A E Brand
ing. Research Assistant in Dairy
Science; W H. Cloninger, As
sociate Professor of Dairy Pro
duction; and H. D. Bartlett. Pro
fessor of Agricultural Engineer
ing.