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Yea I was thinking you would want them in a well sheltered yard, at least there should be plenty of air round them anyway.

Mine were approx £45m2 for slats and fibre glass cross beams

I doubt 30k would have put in 600ft of tanks, slats and the sheds? I would say the slats alone would be 30 grand now. Even at £4 or £5 a head it would be a nice alternative to slapping about through muck and gutters all winter every year. £5 would only get you 5 to 8 weeks of grazing round here...

A couple of years back this article was in the Irish farmers Journal about a family in North Scotland called Sutherland (might even be on here?) that had built very simple sheds with slats for sheep. They look like a very simple and cheap shed to house a large number of sheep. I really like the...

There is a bit of seepage comes out past the feeder at times in the back corner (the floor falls to the back). I just throw a bag of sawdust down along the front of the feeders once a week and sweep it out again a week later. The dung is dry (feeding fairly dry silage) and stacks up fine and...

MIK pig slats with fibreglass beams

I have a simple ramp to set in at the gate up onto the slats, once the sheep are used to slats they walk up on no bother. The first time putting them up can be tricky. Every 2nd feeder has a gate in it and I can bring a ewe out through it onto the feeder, set her lambs down onto the floor and...

Yes the guidelines for lowland ewes on slats is 3 ewes per 8x4 mesh panel or the equivalent area of plastic. So if you can feed on the long side of the 8ft deep pen the 4ft should allow 3 ewes in to feed. A 12ft pen would likely suit the slats well but you would need more feed space than just...

If I was to build a shed of my own for to house ewes over winter ewes I would make the slatted pen 16 deep and feed up both sides. I find 8ft deep pens is plenty of space if you can only feed on one side, each of my 8ft feeders allows 6 ewes to feed and an 8x8 slatted area is ample for 6 ewes

The top of my slats are approx 18 or 20 inches off the floor, it has enough capacity to be full of ewes from Christmas to end of March. I chop my silage through an old bale chopper and just wheel it in and fire it up in to the feeders. If the shed allowed it would be easy enough to chop the...

@neilo I house ewes on a raised slatted floor. I changed some of my wire mesh for plastic slats this year. So far I’m well pleased with the plastic. It’s light and easy to work with. It shouldn’t be a big job to dismantle and take out for cleaning. My slats just sit on a 5x2 timber bolted to the...

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Yea I’d say that’s it alright. I got it mid July but it had been sitting in the yard a few weeks. It’s a grand trailer for the money. Maybe not as fancy as an IW or a CLH but it’s doing my job.

I’m not actually sure of the man’s name that makes them but I think they go by S and M products. There’s no name on it as such. I bought it through my local farm supplies. It’s made up in around Omagh direction some where. They supply a lot of sheep hurdles, creep feeders and stuff like that...