“…According to actual data, there were 21924 cattle and 8263 dairy cattle in 2019 in the district, the total milk production was 24483 tons (TUIK, 2021). Many researchers conducted studies to determine the barn characteristics and reveal the different breeding practices in cattle enterprises in different regions of Turkey (Aydın et al, 2016;Güler et al, 2017;Mundan et al, 2018;Tapkı et al, 2018a;Tapkı et al, 2018b;Ünlü, 2018;Alkan and Güney, 2019;Bakır and Kibar, 2019;Bakır and Kibar, 2020;Kılıç et al, 2020;Öcal 2020;Tapkı et al, 2020;Yılmaz et al, 2020;Kaygısız and Özkan, 2021). Although studies were conducted to determine the structural characteristics of barns in cattle enterprises in some counties of Erzurum province (Çapadağ, 2016;Diler et al, 2016;Diler et al, 2018), no study has been carried out in terms of breeding practices regarding the barn characteristics in İspir district.…”