Cow Mat
Rubber Cow Mats (also known as Bull Mat) are specially crafted in order to aid the Cattle’s hygiene, ensure less fatigue and help against excessive rheumatism. These mats provide a comfortable base for the livestock to rest/stand upon while also preventing joint-deterioration in many animals. Further, they even act as a cushion for calves trying to find their footing into adulthood, ensuring their health remains intact.
Cow Mat
The Cow Mats are made up of multiple designs. However, the interlocking Cow mats are the most convenient and easy to spread mats, for a wide area. They can be easily cleaned and treated periodically for a longer utility.
National Meditek has been supplying various designs of Cow Mats to different Livestock Boards and Frozen Semen Stations in the past, few of which are situated in Uttar Pradesh (UP), Madhya Pradhesh (MP), Punjab and Haryana.
Technical Specifications
While there exist various types of Cow Mats and in different dimensions, it is important for the farmers, dairy farm owners, and Semen bank workers etc. to use a durable Cow Mat made of Natural Rubber. A typical Cow Mat made up of Natural Rubber weighs in the range of over 40 Kgs. While the usual size is 6ft x 4ft, the mats can vary more as per bulk orders. They can either be interlocking or straight edged depending on customer preference.
What are cow mats used for?
An Effective way to Higher Dairy Cow Productivity, Modern Dairy Farm Best Practices.
Dairy Industry has been around for several hundred years now and is continuously changing the shape with the latest improvement in dairy equipment and technology.
One of the recent changes is with dairy farm flooring or more specifically the bedding/resting area. Bedding areas can largely influence a cow’s well-being. Cow produce most their milk while resting and thus encouraging them to lie down for longer period increases milk yield substantially.
Findings by research centers in Dairy Farming show that farms with Mats had higher productivity levels compared to ones without mats
How Cow Mats are Useful?
Most of the Dairy Farms traditionally have been using sand, straw, or brick concrete as bedding or floor surface.
EVA Cow Mats are been used in India for around 7-8 years now. Various types of mats are been manufactured ranging from low quality to highly durable ones. Typically a soft surface enhances cow comfort contributing to the overall well-being of Dairy Cows. Cow Mats provides that soft bedding surface required as they are made of Microcellular EVA Rubber which acts as the mattress. The key property of elastic re-bounce is responsible for this mattress like behavior.
Cow Mats are made of Closed Cell Structure which encapsulates millions of tiny air bubbles covered with a polymeric phase that do not absorb liquids and acts as a cushion. Mats maintain these properties over a reasonable period underuse so they remain as effective yet durable bedding for Dairy Cows. The rubber surface is skid-resistant which prevents slipping of Cows on wet surfaces encouraging cows to walk without stress. Channels on mats help to drain excess water keeping surface dry. The small amount of straw or a mixture of lime powder with wood flour makes mats more attractive to cows. The mat comes with interlocking edges so they could be linked to each other seamlessly providing continuous bedding covering the resting area. One of the essential properties of EVA Rubber mats is the load-bearing capacity. Or it is how much weight a mat can hold without losing its rubbery properties over its life.
Cheap mats have no rubber content which makes them a poor performer to EVA Rubber Cow Mats. Mats are considered to be a smart investment considering its benefits over with an increase in milk yield, less labor, and improvement in cow’s health.
