Building a Permanent Foot Bath
If you are considering building a new, permanent footbath ensure the following;
- 3m long – so cows make several steps and don’t try to jump it
- Deep enough so that it could be filled to over 4” deep
- Designed so cows can’t straddle or walk with one foot out the bath
- Easy fill, easy drain, easy clean
- It is sited to allow good cow flow, i.e. at least one side of cows from the parlour can exit before they reach the footbath
- If you have a large herd consider a double width footbath to allow over taking
Materials for walls
- Metal baths – some metals will rot with copper sulphate
- Concrete – paving kerbs or concrete slabs can be cut to length or cut diagonally for corners
- Rendered breeze blocks
- RSJ
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