New Beef Shed build (Slatted Tank)

gilroy

Member
Hi all,

Planning to build a new beef shed this summer. I need it to hold around 200 / 250 head of cattle.
With a slatted tank in the centre 160ft long and width of 20ft and two feed bays either side of the tank.

Is this big enough to hold 40 cattle per pen, so around 6 pens is required.

Can you let me know price of tank and shed erected.
 

Forever Fendt

Member
Location
Derbyshire
Hi all,

Planning to build a new beef shed this summer. I need it to hold around 200 / 250 head of cattle.
With a slatted tank in the centre 160ft long and width of 20ft and two feed bays either side of the tank.

Is this big enough to hold 40 cattle per pen, so around 6 pens is required.

Can you let me know price of tank and shed erected.
yet another one no location you could be anywhere very difficult for anyone to give you a price ,but as its a slatted tank i would guess you are in Scotland or Ireland
 

bigw

Member
Location
Scotland
Slatted sheds with a suspended passage down the middle with a row of slats at either side would hold about 1 animal per foot. Cost for that would be in the roughly in the region of £1200/ft, don't know what the price would be in Ireland though. I think it has been discussed on here so you may get more accurate prices if you can find it.
 

gilroy

Member
do you mean a tank under the centre feed passage down the middle of the shed thats how i read your post

Feed passages will be on either side of the tank. So basically one big tank in the middle. Cattle can feed on both sides. So any idea of what the cost would be for a tank to hold 240 cattle.

Steel structure and tank hopefully put up for €60k all in.
 

jamesy

Member
Location
Orkney
Feed passages will be on either side of the tank. So basically one big tank in the middle. Cattle can feed on both sides. So any idea of what the cost would be for a tank to hold 240 cattle.

Steel structure and tank hopefully put up for €60k all in.
Unlikely!
 

gilroy

Member
Ok has anybody built a large tank 160ft long and width of 20ft or more, if so can you post images and rough prices.
 

cozzie

Member
Location
Munster, Ireland
Feed passages will be on either side of the tank. So basically one big tank in the middle. Cattle can feed on both sides. So any idea of what the cost would be for a tank to hold 240 cattle.

Steel structure and tank hopefully put up for €60k all in.

your dreaming at €60k, double at least. €500 a head would be cheap. I have a shed as you describe but birds are causing me serious problems and probably would go with that design again.

You haven't a hope of fitting 250 cattle in 160ft of a shed with only a tank of 20ft. I have a 110*50 ft fully slatted tank here under a similar shed and would be wedged solid at 200, 600kg cattle. You need 25 - 30sq feet for large animals lying on slats
 

Davy_g

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Co Down
Ok has anybody built a large tank 160ft long and width of 20ft or more, if so can you post images and rough prices.

65 X 35. Tank and slats 35k.
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