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Vet Clin North Am Food Anim Pract
; 35(1): 175-193, 2019 Mar.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-30686462
ABSTRACT
As automatic milking systems grow in popularity in North America, questions about how to design the barn to improve labor efficiency arise. Multiple considerations such as cow flow traffic type, robot positioning within the pen, the number of cows per pen, and how cows are managed around the robots must be discussed during the barn planning period. This article focuses on barn design and pen layout to maximize labor efficiency in herds with single-box automatic milking systems.