Cow milking stanchion

Well I finally got around to building the girls a milking stanchion. You may be wondering why I’m building one now when it still nearly a year before it will be used. Well at the rate it is…

Bluestem Farm: Homemade milk stanchion

These simple plans use basic carpentry skills and standard building supplies. Add some ease, elegance, and style to YOUR milking parlor.

That's what we've been busy with this weekend. Relatively easy, it's not finished yet, we want to concrete the floor. Ping decided to mo...

Cow stanchion

How to build a cow milking stanchion

Designers Tout Benefits of Employee “Stanchions” Employers Agree Space saving, production enhancing Office workers may soon find a piece of equipment standard in dairy barns adapted for human use and incorporated into their own workspaces. The designers responsible for the widely-used “open office environment,” which features low-walled cubicles arranged in “pods,” have designed an even more space-saving and employee-production-enhancing office model. “Square footage comes at a premium in…

Would be cleaner than the barn... concrete floor and water line for clean up

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cow stanchion

Great milking setup

Well, our 6-goat milking stanchion is done and in use! I really like how it turned out. It takes the does some getting used to, but it make ...

Cow Stanchion. The holding area for the milking cows. Each cow had her own with her name written above. It didnt take them long to remember which was their spot. The reward was ground corn and oats.