Milking parlor design

You can make a DIY milk parlor on your small farm or homestead for a minimal cash investment and a little time. Here's a tour of our parlor.

a breakdown of how we build our small-scale licensed dairy - part A: goat housing, milking parlor and milkhouse (milkroom).

Plans for a 3-stall concrete block milkhouse.

We all know milk comes from cows. Some of us even think chocolate milk comes from brown cows. All jokes aside, how does the milk get from cows to our table? “That’s easy!” you say. “You squeeze the udder and milk comes out!” While this is true, the days of dairy farmers pulling up a stool to milk cows one at a time are long behind us. This was a tedious, yet rewarding task, and dairy farmers have new technology that allows them to feed our growing world!

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Download the plans for this easy to build elevated cow milking stanchion with a swinging headgate here!

What do you NEED to start a herdshare program? We talk about the milking parlor and bottling room requirements to ensure that you produce clean, profitable milk every day.

The Milking Parlor at The Milky Way.

We have been very busy getting the Milking Parlor set up and finally going. It took a bit of time to train the girls to the new space as well. They have to step up three times to get onto the milking stand. Ariel, my one large goat (Nubian) had the roughest time. She is long and has to step up just right with her head down to get into the stanchion. The milk stand has a stanchion for small goats and Ariel has adapted to it. I do have a taller stanchion, but it is to tall for my yearling…