Intensive beef production can be done on slatted floors in controlled ventilation houses, where the animals can be moved as calves after having been in pens.
On the majority of farms the calf is kept in a solid or slatted-sided crate 5 feet by 2 feet, on slats and in dim light.
However, certain forms of bedding can be a source of infection for sow and piglets, and this clause, if accepted, might immediately preclude the use of houses with slatted floors.
The committee's report reveals that closely confined calves spend the whole of their brief lives on slatted floors, in dim light in pens only slightly larger than themselves.
In 1974 a slatted floor house was erected for cattle at an intermediate stage.
That may be the intention; some reports claim that slatted floors lead to lameness and injuries.
Throughout that time, it either stands or lies on the slatted wooden floor.
It was a very good improvement of a milking parlour and yard with self-feed silage and slatted—or, at any rate, grid—floors.
