The barn looks like a geometric puzzle! Our latest addition is a tube fan.
This is the way it works. The fan on the outside of the barn is attached to a plastic tube. It blows air through the tube.
The entire length of the tube has little holes in it. The air blows through these holes and pumps fresh air into the barn. According to the experience of other farmers, the fresh air helps the calves not get pneumonia, be more comfortable, and as a result, grow better.
The first calves - now that they're older - are no longer in individual pens. Now they're in small group pens of eight. You can see that we've removed the dividers between the pens and swung out the gates. Now they're able to drink from the same waterer and eat the feed that we give them in the alley.
Fresh air for them, fresh air for my kids. We're building up immunities left and right.
1 comment:
We have these same tube fans in the hog barns. I only know because when I help clean we have to take them down and lay them out and they are crazy dusty by the end of a group!
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