GreySTALL - Hybrid Dairy Stalls Redefining Cow Comfort
The comfort of flexible stabling with the strength of steel. Higher Lying Times: Unintimidating stalls promote rest and rumination. Higher Feed Intake: Natural grazing posture increases feed intake. Higher Milk Production: Extra lying time and ease of feeding means more milk from your cows. Reinforcement where you need it Available as double or single stalls.
When uncomfortable stalls cause cows to stand too long – it affects their natural behaviour cycle. Once they finally dare to settle, they will then remain lying down for longer periods. This then affects their feed and water intake, consuming less but in larger proportions with less overall dry matter consumption. Ultimately milk production is negatively impacted.
We may not be able to bring the pasture in the barn, but we certainly can work hard to design the barn that allows for natural movement – for the cows’ ultimate well-being.
A good stall design doesn’t incite fear limiting lying time but allows the cow to settle in with ease and without injury. It provides her the environment to naturally lunge forward to rise to her feet and move in or out with freedom.
A GREYstall flexible free stall through materials and assembly provides flexibility for her comfort. But the real art is providing the adequate rigidity to ensure that while she moves about freely, she does not compromise her positioning.
Which bed did Goldilocks choose? The one that was JUST RIGHT
Finally cow comfort without cows backwards in stalls.
Injuries shorten average lifespan.
Traditional steel stalls are unforgiving, causing injuries and fear, reducing lying time. This ultimately impacts cow longevity.
Injuries shorten average lifespan.
Traditional steel stalls are unforgiving, causing injuries and fear, reducing lying time. This ultimately impacts cow longevity.
GREYstall Hybrid stalls are just right.
Flexible without compromise! It features a flexible neck rail, but definitely not floating. The dividers, though flexible, remain quite rigid and certainly are not composed of rubber.
Some stall designs are just backwards.
Too much flexibility compromises a cow’s position. This causes teat damage, dirty udders and high somatic cell count.
Fasteners
Proprietary German engineered protective zinc coating which is 5 times more corrosive resistant than hot dipped galvanizing! The added bonus – they are much easier to work with than HDG fasteners.
Poly Piping
Developed custom poly blend providing the ultimate balance in flexibility and rigidity along with extreme thermal resistance and UV protection. Via extended hardware there is less poly pipe in flex, ensuring rigidity and less opportunity for pipe end break-out.
Fabricated Hardware
Heavy duty sizing and hot dip galvanized coating. The lower divider pipe bracket is the most significant of it’s kind in the market. Seriously strengthened and enlarged to further support the divider and reinforce its most common point of stress.
Fixed Neck Rail
We believe in a fixed connection for the neck rail to the upper divider. This ensures the divider retains crucial rigidity. A fixed neck rail also ensures that cows are positioned properly, not getting too forward in her stall. Most importantly a floating neck rail creates too much flexibility with the divider and neck rail that can foster bad habits of cows even lying backwards in stalls.
Steel End Loop
Our steel end loop has a galvanized finish and ties the upper and lower dividers together, making the stall significantly stronger. It gives added rigidity to index cows properly in the stall and ensures uniform stalls throughout your barn for years to come.
The typical lying time of cows in most free stall barns.
Hybrid dairy stalls enable the optimal time of 14 hours of comfortable laying time
The optimal time cows will lie down in comfortable stalls.
Studies show that renovating stalls to improve dairy cow comfort improves milk yield, reduces cull rate, lowers somatic cell count, and improves the lameness status of the herd.
University of Wisconsin research shows comfortable dairy cows have:
Great milk yield: 3 – 14 pounds per cow per day
Lower turnover rates: 6% to 13% decrease
Lower somatic cell count: 37,000 to 102,000 decrease
Less lameness: 15% to 20% reduction
Rest is important
Cows need to lie down. It allows her hooves to dry off and gives her time to rest and ruminate. While resting comfortably, blood circulation to the udder increases and leads to increased milk production.
30% increase of blood circulation to the udder when a dairy cow is lying down
The increase of blood circulation to the udder, when a cow is lying down. This improves udder function and milk production.
Five minutes is the maximum time a dairy cow should take to get settled into the stall
The maximum time upon initially stepping up on the cow bed, until she should be settled into the stall.
Two additional hours of lying time can produce an additional two litres of milk
(or 5 pounds)
Additional milk production daily from 2 additional hours of lying time.
379% more steel for increased stability and durability
Le boîtier de pédalier de GREYstall contient plus d`acier que les autres marques
Another Brand’s bottom bracket
Our experience shows it could be better.
GREYstall`s bottom bracket
GREYstall’s bottom bracket
More steel means better positioning and no backwards cows.
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GreySTALL Grey Piping with Spot of Colour
#SpotOfColour
Flexible stabling doesn’t need to be a statement.
There was a time when you considered introducing a flexible stall to your barn, your only option was to make a profound colour statement. Now you can choose the grey piping offered by GREYstall and simply add a #SpotOfColour by choosing the cap preference that suits your operation – blue, red, or green. No compromise even on colour!