I have been on a working diary with 1000 head on it and was 6 total acres. Had a feed barn, an exercise round, a milking barn, fermenting pits and settling ponds for manure. Each barn and the exercise round held 1/3 of the herd. The feed barn had a trough behind the animals, which tend to defiicate while they eat.
A big water tank would fill, release and wash the manure into a series of settling ponds. The ponds were drained and cleaned out periodically with a front end loader. The manure the. was sold to the corn farmers who raised the feed corn.
The feed was kept in a covered pit to ferment a while before being used, to ease digestion. The cows were milked 3 times a day and produced 2 gallons per milking. They would produce for about 3 years after calving, would calve twice then “retire” to become hamburger.
Stood in the middle of this big circle in the heat of Texas summer...no flies...no smell. Amazing.
As a previous dairy farmer, cows are measured by lbs per milking not gallons. Equating 8lb/gal, and the 3x per day you mentioned this would be extremely average to low producing cows and they could NOT milk for 3 years, they would go dry on their own. Come again?
Thanks for the first hand experience Tex!
May you never be sued by Revel and his legal jackboots.