Company Profile

Artex Fabricators

Langley, , Canada

Agriculture Products - Manufacturer,
Proprietorship Firm Since 0

Since the beginning, dairy farming has had the monumental task of trying to achieve higher milk production efficiency. Everything a farmer does, be it A.I. Breeding, feeding, housing, etc. Are dependent upon this ability to promote increased milk production. But this goal should never overshadow their first commitment, which is to the animal itself. Everything they do must fulfill the modern dairy cow's needs first and foremost. Fulfilling these needs, is the basis for ARTEX and Pasture Mat's new philosophy towards building a modern day free-stall barn. These new dairy facilities fulfill the cow's needs by providing a zone of cow comfort. Our goal is to design a complete 'Cow Comfort' system - an environment that emulates the natural pasture as nearly as possible. We believe we have accomplished this through the cooperation of other like-minded manufacturers.This cow "Comfort Zone" consists of the entire new facilities components working together to achieve this goal of complete cow contentment.

The individual products that comprise this "Cow Comfort" system include: the "Y2K" free stall from Artex Fabricators, Ltd.; the "Pasture Mat"? and "Poly Pillow ? " from Promat, Ltd.; and the "Feedmax" automated feed pushing system from Dairymaster. Together, this system creates the ideal dairy cow environment where they spend more time lying down producing milk and less time standing or walking around aimlessly.

After careful study of the Promat time lapse video of stall occupation, Artex developed the Y2K stall. With increased lunge space and bed length, it allows greater freedom of movement for the cows when standing up, considering that a cow uses 9 to 10 feet in length when getting up.

In addition, Artex has removed the horizontal rail because tests have proven that the lower rail limits forward lunge space. Along with the open front stall, Artex has raised the neck-rail up from 46" to 50". The additional 4 inches of height does not impede the cow when she walks into the stall, thus she stands in the stall with all four feet. She gets off the concrete the second she enters the stall. Cows do not stand half-in and half-out of the stall - this will ensure the cows will spend less time on the concrete decreasing foot problems!
Once in the stall, the cow enjoys the productive benefits of the Pasture Mat ? and Poly Pillow ? and the Feedmax.

Products :
Specialists in providing top class farm equipment. High Dumps Self-locks Gates Aqua-dump Stall Fillers Commodity Trailers Manure Equipment Forage Equipment Composting Equipment.