View parlour and building designs from the comfort of your own home
Are you embarking on a building project or looking for guidance on how to make improvements around your farmyard? If so, checking out the virtual farmyard tours collection on the Teagasc website is a must.
Whether constructing a new milking parlour, sheep shed, calf shed or beef unit, it’s always a big help to see how it was done elsewhere.
Teagasc’s library of virtual farm tours allows you to go and look at such facilities from the comfort of your own home. The virtual tours include a series of 360-degree photographs which allow you to move around the farm and view it from almost any angle. The key features that are worthy of a specific mention on each farm are also highlighted. Another big advantage of the virtual tour is that you go back and visit the farm as often as you want to check out the finer details such as how a gate was hung or a drain is laid.
From a parlour construction perspective, there are videos included within the virtual tours which explain in more detail some of the features e.g. cow flow routes. These help give a better understanding on how the parlour functions. The key dimensions, and plans of the buildings are included in each tour so that you can easily see what size is allocated to each area and to get a handle on the overall footprint.