Layouts of Dairy Farms for Various Size Units

In dairy farming construction is most important factor for effective productivity and labour efficiency with minimum movement of people and the animals, For example, the milking parlour may be situated close to the milking cows shed,feed storage room also should be close to the milking parlour as the compound feed in mostly fed during milking, calf shed should be close to the milking cows shed,farm building should be constructed using cheaper locally available construction materials so that the construction cost is minimized.

Given under are some model layouts of dairy farms of various sizes for the setting up of commercial dairy farms.

The layout of dairy farm building is presented in Fig. 44.1 and Fig. 44.2.
 

Following would be strength of herd for 100 milk animals and followers:

 

Here some other Layouts prepared by NDRI's Dr.
  
Layout of Dairy Farm for 20 Cow/Buffalo Unit 
As prepared by Dr. M.L. Kamboj (NDRI, Karnal)

Layout of Dairy Farm for 50 Cow/Buffalo UnitAs prepared by Dr. M.L. Kamboj (NDRI, Karnal)

Layout of Dairy Farm for 200 Cow/Buffalo UnitAs prepared by Dr. M.L. Kamboj (NDRI, Karnal)