This paper aims to, through a literature review, examine how to best design and adapt calf huts to meet the calf's physiological requirements and reduce the infection pressure for enteric and respiratory diseases. It illuminates how the calf relates to different temperatures and climate, which temperature control mechanisms it uses and its ability to perform these regulations, as well as providing a summary of the past decades´ research on the calf huts housing system. These two theory chapters, along with a concluding discussion, provide a better understanding of how to, especially in temperate climates, design the most suitable calf hut, which cater to the calf's both thermal comfort and physical health. The literature suggests that the calf's own temperature control works well to counteract the temperature outside the desired range, and that one of the most important factors rather is ventilation of a calf hut, which reduces moisture and pathogens. The conclusion of this paper is mainly that there is not an obvious way to place and construct a calf hutch and that most design principles contribute to both positive and negative effects simultaneously.

Syftet med denna undersökning har varit att sammanställa och utvärdera information vad gäller uppförandet av ett antal lantbruksbyggnader. Målsättningen var att kunna presentera ett faktaunderlag som hjälpmedel för berörda parter i kommande byggverksamhet. I examensarbetet undersöktes tre huvudpunkter, ?tidsåtgång för byggprocessen?, ?den färdiga stallbyggnadens form och funktion? samt en kostnadsuppföljning av bygget. Informationen samlades in genom att ett antal lantbrukare fick besvara några förutbestämda frågor inom dessa områden som sedan sammanställdes.