Slippery floor of milking parlour mats or grooving

KingPanko

The floor of the milking parlour where gets cow traffic has got very slippery recently especially where they enter the parlour and am thinking that it is slowing down cow flow and I am worried that I will loose a cow some day. Two options, mats designed for the job or groove the area. Grooving would be cheaper but which would be better? I like to keep a clean yard and parlour and was thinking that the mats would be easier to wash down than grooved concrete, what is your opinion?

Anyone have any experience of the different brands of mats?

have2flushtwice

You could scabble it and that would roughen it up a bit. Road compressor and a scrabble head. I do it when I'm joining concrete layers to give an adhesive surface.

Just do that area and not the whole yard.

whelan2

We put down some checker plate at the bottom of old parlour and hired out a machine to scabble the concrete at the top. Have concrete grooved in new parlour

Jb1989

Are you still using old parlour or what's its future?

whelan2

Nope being sold off in bits

KingPanko

I never thought of scrabbling it? Would it be hard on the cows hoofs?

Mooooo

Grooving would prob be the way to go

whelan2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121662935#Comment_121662935

No you're only scraping the surface of the concrete. Think it was 100 euro to hire the machine and gave a lad 60 euro for using it. Was a few years ago