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Author Topic: milking stands  (Read 10543 times)

Anke

  • Joined Dec 2009
  • St Boswells, Scottish Borders
Re: milking stands
« Reply #30 on: June 26, 2012, 10:34:48 pm »
Well done!
 
 
Not sure what your surface material is - put some lino or something easily wipeable down. I have one girl who is an expert in multi-tasking - she's having her breakfast (or dinner) while being milked and is doing her business the other end too if I am too slow...

Wouldn't lino be a bit slippy if they come in with wet feet?

Anything that's wipe-able will be a bit slippery, but mine cope well. We didn't have lino on to begin with and cleaning the wooden surface was a nightmare, now just a quick wipe afterwards and it is clean.

smudger

  • Joined Jan 2012
  • North Devon/ West Exmoor
Re: milking stands
« Reply #31 on: June 27, 2012, 09:03:29 am »
yes its getting a bit mucky (they are a bit like horses the minute you take them up into a horsebox they poo!). Intention is to get a thin bit of rubber matting in due course (can't bear to cut up by thick horse ones...).
Traditional and Rare breed livestock -  Golden Guernsey Goats, Blackmoor Flock Shetland and Lleyn Sheep, Pilgrim Geese and Norfolk Black Turkeys. Capallisky Irish Sport Horse Stud.

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: milking stands
« Reply #32 on: June 27, 2012, 09:43:16 pm »
I used a texture floor covering tha tis scrubbable but not slippy.

 

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