New heifer barn pics.

greg oliver · Dec 27, 2015

The farm that we did concrete work for the milking parlor also put up a new heifer barn. We did the concrete work in the heifer barn and I need to stop by and get the finished pics. The milking parlor is working great and they are happy with all the improvements.

larry@stinescorner · Dec 27, 2015

really nice job!!

greg oliver · Dec 27, 2015

Larry, we got involved with a fun one after this. It was a fairly new house on the edge of a lake. We did the excavating for it but another company did the concrete. They had to pump the water out and I said then that what a disaster if the pump quits in the winter. We pulled up the stone dug down and put more drains in and pex tubing and a backup pump. The owner used to own a milk hauling company that hauled my milk but he didn't remember me.

john in la · Dec 27, 2015

Thinking this was your place while looking at the pictures I wanted to ask why those big heifers still had horns.
Why don't you guys remove them at a few weeks old?
Then I read your caption at the bottom and see you were only a contractor on someone else's farm.

Still a nice barn either way even though I do not understand the tie stall concept especially for cows not in milk.

greg oliver · Dec 27, 2015

Its a freestall not a tie stall. They can go outside even in the winter and they were laying in the field the other morning when it 20 degrees out. They do raise some nice heifers.

larry@stinescorner · Dec 27, 2015

very nice!! where is that,,,(what state)

greg oliver · Dec 27, 2015

That's Arnolds lake near Mount Vison in Otsego county New York. Had to sneak the mini excavator down the stone steps and still had a lot of hand work.

J.Wondergem · Dec 27, 2015

If that's what ex milk haulers new houses look like, I'm keeping a eye on RRLund.

rrlund · Dec 27, 2015

I guess I didn't do it long enough. lol

greg oliver · Dec 27, 2015

That's his summer house he lives in Florida now!

greg oliver · Dec 27, 2015

They also had a truck repair garage and now owned by a local petroleum company. They did take over the milk hauling for awhile but got out pretty quick. Must be more money in oil.LOL

Bruce from Can. · Dec 27, 2015

Very nice barn , house isn't too shabby either . How closed in will this heifer barn be when complete ? Curtian wall?

greg oliver · Dec 28, 2015

Bruce, I haven't been back yet but from the road it looks like the back wall has steel on it. They only have about 35 heifers that will be in the barn which is 120 foot by 20 foot wide. They use sand to bed them you can see the concrete curb that will hold the sand in. In the free stall dairy barn they use sand also. It is a father son operation and they do well production wise. The son just had a medical scare a few years ago. He had a stroke at 45 years old. They were going to put a short roof over the manger and they feed a TMR to heifers and cows. Headed over to milk at the neighbors now his wife is due in 2 weeks and she still works 2 jobs.

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