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Housing Design for Goats

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 International Workshop
Constrains and Solutions for Animal Housing in Warm Conditions

Évora University - Conference Room of Mitra Campus

26 - 27 of February of 2015 - Évora - Portugal

Housing Design for Goats

Flávio Silva*, Bruno Bento* and Catarina Matos*
Students of Master in Animal Science Engineering
*Évora University
flaviodags@hotmail.com, brunobento91@hotmail.com, catarina.matos7@hotmail.com

The construction of this project has been located in Portugal, district of Next follows the facilities of each building with the respective areas.
Tab. 3 – Facilities
Santarem, with the goal of reuse and turn profitable an abandoned land that totals
44 hectares (Fig.1). Facilities Space/Animal Size (m) Area (m2)
A semi-intensive system was applied, with a full use of the pasture, but with a
resource of supplements when there is a lack in pasture or in the periods of higher Kids parlor (each) 0.30m2/Kid 2.50x4.00 10.00
needs in nutrients, in order to improve the production. Both males and females, of
Florida's breed, live permanently in the pasture, the kids are housed, until weaning, Waiting parlor 0.55m2/goat1 3.60x7.40 26.64
in parlors suitable of their spatial and environmental needs.
Milking parlor 0.40m2/goat2 5.70x5.00 28.50
The goats are separated in time, giving birth in two periods, in Oct/Nov and
Jan/Feb, obtaining kids to sell in Christmas and Easter, when the value and the Building
Milk room X 2.50x3.00 7.50
demand of this product is higher (RAMOS, 2008). With this division we cut in half A
the space needed to house the kids and also have milk production along the year. Nursery 1.20m2/goat 4.00x5.10 20.40

Office X 3.90x2.10 8.20

Bathhouse/WC X 2.50x2.50 6.30

Quarantine 4m2/animal 2.40x5.00 12.00

Building
B Warehouse X 5.00x10.00 50.00
1 Goes up to 3 milking lots (48 animals)
2 A 2x8x16 milking machine

Fig. 1 – The farm parcel division:

Tab. 1 - Numbers
Folha 1 – Bush, Folha 2 e 4 – Pasture
sown, Folha 3 – Medicago arborea. ♀ ♂
Efectivo Total 250 13
Efectivo Vivo 242 12
Efectivo 234
Efectivo Reprodutor 222
Efectivo Substituição 16
Renovação 31 3
Pressão de Selecção ♀ (4,5%) 10 Fig. 3 – Illustration of the Building B.
Efectivo de Recria ♀ 57
Max. Cabritos Nascidos/ano 377
Cabritos Vendidos/ano 313

Fig. 2 – Illustration of the Building A.

➢For the outlines of our farm we used GoolZoom and the topographic letter
322 – Mouriscas (Abrantes).

➢We used the Tab. 2, as a technical information, to size the facilities

according to the current legislation:
Decreto-Lei n.º 81/2013
Portaria n.º 638/2009 de 9 de Junho

Tab. 2 – Technical information for goats The location, the animal needs, the animal handling, the construction of the facilities, the
equipment used in the environmental conditioning, the agro-economic MEIO as well as all the
Covered Area Feeder Length Automatic Recommended
Animal other factors in this project are extremely important to the economic and technical success of the
(m2/ani) (m/ani) Waterers Lot Size
farm. Through a brief financial analysis was verified a global profitability of 7.55%, getting to the
Adult Female 1.20-1.80 0.33-0,40 1/40 40-50
goal OF: elaborate a project with goats, in a semi-intensive system, profitable under the provided
Adult Male 3.00-5.00 0,40 1/40 10-15
conditions.
Kid 0.25 0.10-0.15 1/30 20-30 The realization of this project allowed us to understand the difficulty of implementing an
Adapted from Andrada, 1996. animal's housing project, since everything is based in a delicate balance between what is right and
what is possible, both economic and technical. We realized that when in a project situation is
➢To illustrate the facilities in project we used the SketchUp 2015 software. needed an equation of all aspects, thus finding the best solution that will always be a commitment
solution.

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