Large dairy barn with cubicles, measuring 62 x 26 m, featuring a milk room, milking robots, and an upstairs office. PURCHASE
Two in-store options: with customizable pasture (€650,000) or without pasture (€620,000); maintenance cost: €250/day
3 cladding options: new green, new beige with anthracite roof, or old building style (faded sheet metal, fiber-cement roof)
3 milking robot brands to choose from:
Lely Astronaut A5 with Nautilus tank
GEA DairyRobot 9500 with Koolway tank
DeLaval VMS with DeLaval milk tank
Dairy signage and cow brush colors match the chosen brand (red, green, or blue)
LIVESTOCK
Up to 130 cows
Capacities: slurry 150,000 L, milk 80,000 L, straw 50,000 L, ration 80,000 L, manure pit 1,500,000 L
Rows of cubicles with straw-bedded mats; concrete slatted flooring throughout the living area
Concrete slab feed alley with headlocks and 12 feeding spaces
4 water troughs and cow brushes
Cow walking area limited to the alleys; cubicle beds excluded
Slurry extraction via pump column against the west gable
U-shaped manure pit integrated into the west gable
ANIMATED EQUIPMENT
3 automatic Delta scrapers, one per alley:
Drive station with galvanized chain, cable, and return pulley
Scraper wings open during scraping, folded during return
On/off control at the cabinet next to the robot
9 box fans (1.38 m) suspended from the trusses:
Rotating blades and rear shutters that open with the airflow air
On/off switch at the north wall control box
15 waterproof LED strip lights providing actual illumination; switch on the north wall
4 opening doors: 3 sliding doors and the dairy service door
DAIRY AND OFFICE
Dairy featuring a milk tank (brand of choice) and a galvanized staircase to the upper level
Under-stair storage: shelving, cleaning products, buckets, hose reel, shovel, broom
Upstairs office with a large window overlooking the barn:
desk, chair, cabinet, printer, telephone, coffee maker, corkboard
binder shelves, fan, toolbox, cable reel
metal shelving unit, water pack, boots
Animated computer:
"Turn on computer" switches on the screen, displaying the barn in a 3D editor, accompanied by keyboard sounds followed by a click
"Turn off computer" shuts it down
EXTERIOR
2 polyester feed silos: green body, white dome, galvanized legs, caged ladder, fill pipe
Slurry pump with intake column and large straight pipe
When it rains, water flows from the bottom of the 4 downspouts
OLD BUILDING
Dirty, cracked concrete at the base of the walls (inside and out)
Grating and feed alley caked with grime; stained dairy floor; worn manure pit
Aged galvanized steel: cubicles, water troughs, staircase, scrapers, fans
Grime on the robots, milk tank, silos, dairy windows, and service door
Leaking gutters: trickles of water fall to the ground when it rains
Cows