How big a slatted shed for 150 suckler cows?

Hilly

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Well either suspended passage which would be 33% more storage or if the tanks had been 11 feet deep.
We got a grant on the byre with the calving pens and part of the criteria to source the grant was to fit aeriation system in both byres now to make this work well it needs about 2.5 feet of water in tank at start of winter so this reduces the amount of slurry capacity but makes the slurry available for spreading at a moments notice.
I haven't worked out costs but would imagine deeper tanks would be the cheaper option.
Id to build one i can drive under with forklift and remove dug like that.
 

sheepwise

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Location
SW Scotland
Well either suspended passage which would be 33% more storage or if the tanks had been 11 feet deep.
We got a grant on the byre with the calving pens and part of the criteria to source the grant was to fit aeriation system in both byres now to make this work well it needs about 2.5 feet of water in tank at start of winter so this reduces the amount of slurry capacity but makes the slurry available for spreading at a moments notice.
I haven't worked out costs but would imagine deeper tanks would be the cheaper option.
Have you had a slurry aerator since the 80's. Didn't know they were about as far back as that.We have one in a shed we erected 4 years ago and I reckon it and the comfort mats are the two best things to ever have been developed for slatted sheds.
 

scholland

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Location
ze3
That comfort mats are fantastic, cattle stay very clean on them. Mostly slats here as straw would be £130+ per ton. Work OK, suspended pass is great, wish we had them 11 long rather than 10. Will take pictures tomorrow
 

Mrs Brown

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Orkney Islands
Have you had a slurry aerator since the 80's. Didn't know they were about as far back as that.We have one in a shed we erected 4 years ago and I reckon it and the comfort mats are the two best things to ever have been developed for slatted sheds.

No, retro fitted when we built the second slatted tank in 2012
 

Mrs Brown

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Orkney Islands
That comfort mats are fantastic, cattle stay very clean on them. Mostly slats here as straw would be £130+ per ton. Work OK, suspended pass is great, wish we had them 11 long rather than 10. Will take pictures tomorrow

As I said on my first message on this post I think you need 12 feet slat for cows with calves at foot if you have a look at one of the pictures of the 80s byre we had a 11 foot slat and then a foot of concrete inside the feed fence giving us a 12 foot pen
 

Mrs Brown

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Orkney Islands
Oh, got any pics of your set up ? like to learn about slats fancy building myself a slatted shed.
Heres a picture of our one sided slatted byre in the building
 

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