A cow producing 8,000 litres needed 8sq m while one yielding 10,000 litres requires 10sq m. Lighting Good lighting is an important part of a calving facility, the calving area needs to be well lit.

In the Isle of Man, a yoke is a plank sliding in a groove, and confining a cow's neck in the cow-house, and in Yorkshire and Cheshire it is a bar or frame of wood put around an animal's neck to ...