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Quote: Linda, a suggestion when putting up shower curtain or plastic: use a flat plank like 1/2 inch by 3 inches by what length you need ( often we use several scraps to fill the distance) and nail in with many nails. the boards do a big part of the job to hold the material in place whereas just staples will rip . We have had great luck with this method over many years for horse barns, sheep barns and now chickens. So no need to change using the shower curtains . . . I reuse huge clear plastic bags. . . .lol
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do you have a suggestion for how to build a wooden milking table?????
Fabulous idea. It looks like I''m going to be the one doing it. I can't get the fellow when I need or afford him when he's available.Linda, a suggestion when putting up shower curtain or plastic: use a flat plank like 1/2 inch by 3 inches by what length you need ( often we use several scraps to fill the distance) and nail in with many nails. the boards do a big part of the job to hold the material in place whereas just staples will rip . We have had great luck with this method over many years for horse barns, sheep barns and now chickens. So no need to change using the shower curtains . . . I reuse huge clear plastic bags. . . .lol
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do you have a suggestion for how to build a wooden milking table?????
Ours is kind of like the second picture. We made it out of recycled pallets that we cut down and then covered it with a piece of stall mat we cut from a bigger sheet. Because ours is between two stalls in the barn, we use one rail of the stall as a side and I sit on the other to milk. We have a dog leash suspended above from the rafters that we clip to their collar and then have a rail on the barn wall for a feed trough. We don't use rails for their head because they stand still just fine. The leash allows them to flip around if they feel like it, which one of our girls always does, then we just move the feeder to the side of the stall for her.
I used the remainder of the stall mat on the floor of the milking area for ease of cleanup. I wash their teats before I milk and then use the remainder of the wash water to clean off the stand and rinse down the floor between milkings and at the end. They invariably poop while milking or have muck on their feet sometimes. In a perfect world I would have a trough for them to walk through before they entered the milking area but because we aren't selling the milk, I haven't worried about it.
The biggest trick with the milking stand is to not make it too big. If it's too wide, you'll have trouble reaching across it to milk them and for seemingly big animals, they can plaster themselves against a rail and become like a pancake when they want to. Lol.