How big a slatted shed for 150 suckler cows?

scholland

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How much dose it cost to get a beast to thainstone ?
Go on containers on the boat made my Stewart trailers, travel really well. Charged by the metre so can vary. Last stuff we shipped was cull coos and they are £25 on the boat plus the truck into thainstone. Lambs about £2.60 for good stores on the boat.
 

Mrs Brown

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Livestock Farmer
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Orkney Islands
Go on containers on the boat made my Stewart trailers, travel really well. Charged by the metre so can vary. Last stuff we shipped was cull coos and they are £25 on the boat plus the truck into thainstone. Lambs about £2.60 for good stores on the boat.

We are much the same to Aberdeen but being an outward Island we incur a shipping cost of £13 to get them to mainland Orkney for onward shipping.
 

Mrs Brown

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Orkney Islands
Do you do the shuttering yourself or builder ? im fancying a bit of a DIY long term project.

Did it ourselves ,no builder on the island so costs rise when they have to pay for digs. We bought the shuttering then sold it again after we finished, worked out cheaper than hire as we had farm work to get on with so that spread the time for building over a while.
 

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sheepwise

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SW Scotland
What sort of weight can you drive over suspended passage with ?
When I said fully suspended I meant actually with concrete pillars and beams.Don't know actual weight rating but built under SDRP scheme so to official standards and certainly strong enough for tractor and loaded feed wagon. @Mrs Brown our aerator was supplied by S.A.M.S. based in Preston - £15k at time for 100' x 60' tank but saving in tractor hours and diesel significant and I don't think you can put a price on fact slurry is always in a spreadable state and much kinder to the environment (worms, smell, etc.).
 

Hilly

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When I said fully suspended I meant actually with concrete pillars and beams.Don't know actual weight rating but built under SDRP scheme so to official standards and certainly strong enough for tractor and loaded feed wagon. @Mrs Brown our aerator was supplied by S.A.M.S. based in Preston - £15k at time for 100' x 60' tank but saving in tractor hours and diesel significant and I don't think you can put a price on fact slurry is always in a spreadable state and much kinder to the environment (worms, smell, etc.).
Would having a setup where i could open one end once a year and muck out with forklift be ok ??
 

sheepwise

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Location
SW Scotland
Would having a setup where i could open one end once a year and muck out with forklift be ok ??
Our shed built in the 80's is like that but unless you can separate out liquid you are basically mucking out slurry. Was ok back then when feeding a dry hay diet but wouldn't consider such a set up if feeding good silage.Know some farmers around here with such sheds who would muck out their straw courts in summer and store in the under slat cellars to make dung more manageable. SEPA will also demand storage tank for liquid seeping from your mucking out entrance.
 

Mrs Brown

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Orkney Islands
When I said fully suspended I meant actually with concrete pillars and beams.Don't know actual weight rating but built under SDRP scheme so to official standards and certainly strong enough for tractor and loaded feed wagon. @Mrs Brown our aerator was supplied by S.A.M.S. based in Preston - £15k at time for 100' x 60' tank but saving in tractor hours and diesel significant and I don't think you can put a price on fact slurry is always in a spreadable state and much kinder to the environment (worms, smell, etc.).

Think our came from Ameram and cost a bloody fortune very sure they knew we had to buy it to satisfy the granting body. We find it great as we have gone to spreading by umbilical to keep the compaction off the fields when having to spread a bit earlier than when conditions are ideal.
 

sheepwise

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Location
SW Scotland
Think our came from Ameram and cost a bloody fortune very sure they knew we had to buy it to satisfy the granting body. We find it great as we have gone to spreading by umbilical to keep the compaction off the fields when having to spread a bit earlier than when conditions are favourable
The best thing about having at least 6 month's storage capacity is that we now view slurry as an asset rather than a problem.Coupled with the fact that umbilical systems can pump this consistent slurry quite a distance from the steading and as you say cutting down on compaction we are now making significant savings on our fertiliser bill.
 

Hilly

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Our shed built in the 80's is like that but unless you can separate out liquid you are basically mucking out slurry. Was ok back then when feeding a dry hay diet but wouldn't consider such a set up if feeding good silage.Know some farmers around here with such sheds who would muck out their straw courts in summer and store in the under slat cellars to make dung more manageable. SEPA will also demand storage tank for liquid seeping from your mucking out entrance.
I cant pump the slurry off my cubicals with out a little rain water mixed in so if it was in an underground tank i dont think id ever shift it without a loader, its like cheese coming off the cubicals, do feed straw tho stiffens them up.
 

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