CALF SUITES

• Easy to Install: Snap planks together to create panels, set your posts in place (fixed and movable posts are available), slide in panels, bolt on channels, affix spindle gates to front, install latches and you have sturdy, protective dividing pens, providing housing for calves up to approximately 12 weeks of age.
  
  
• Save Space & Cut Your Labor Time and Costs: Unlike calf hutches, which inefficiently spread your calves out over a large area, Calf Suite pens are all together in rows, saving you space while minimizing the distance you have to carry feed & other supplies. This allows you to feed, dehorn, ear tag, and medicate your calves quickly and easily.
  
  
• Healthier Calves: Plastic planking, which will not harbor bacteria, snap together to create individual pens that keep calves close together yet isolated from one another, resulting in a reduction of disease transmission. The front spindle gate allows air movement through the pen, thus keeping your calves healthier.
  
  
• Protect Your Calves From Harmful Weather: Since your Calf Suites will be placed inside a calf barn or an existing cow barn, your calves will be sheltered from potentially harmful weather
  
  
• Group Penning: As your calves age, simply remove the side panels to make group pens. This allows you to increase social interaction at a controlled rate, thereby reducing the amount of stress on your calves.
  
  
• Easy to Clean: Calf Suites dramatically decrease the time and effort you spend on cleaning out your pens. Simply slide all of the dividing side panels out at once and use a skid steer to clean all the pens at the same time.
  
  
• Ergonomic Design: Eliminate unnecessary strain on your back. With the spindle gates, you can observe each calf without having to bend down and look inside like you would with an enclosed hutch. In addition, each front gate has a self catching latch that can be operated with one hand, making it simple for you to open and close the pen. You don't have to lift the pen front to open the gate.
  
  
• Ventilation: A proper designed ventilation system is critical to calf health and mortality rates. Call J&D Manufacturing’s ventilation design engineers to make a recommendation on the best system for your building. A good system is designed for winter ventilation, mainly controlling humidity to reduce pneumonia in calves; as well as a good summer system is to help remove heat, dry floors, fly control and provide the ideal environment to get your calves off to the right start in life. J&D Manufacturing is the World Leader in designing dairy ventilation.
  
  
• Standard Calf Suite Sizes: Choose from our standard sizes, or customize your Calf Suites to suit your operation.