youngstock housing

lazy farmer said:

do you ever get them lying in backwards? where we had them previously they were housed in the old dairy cubicles and they would come back to us with 25% each season lying in backwards and many don't grow out of it

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Touch wood never had one yet,probably jinxed it now mind

frederick said:

Will a 10 month old heifer use a cubicle properly?

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At 6 the will just about. They soon get the idea

We have made a sloping floor for our bulling heifers, it's a 90 by 30 shed with a row of concrete sleepers up either side,propped up with two solid blocks at one end. we scrap the centre out daily and run up and down with the trailer Strawmill we use for the cows ,it takes about half a round bale a day for 65 to 80 heifers and 5 minutes time wise. They have some ring feeders outside for silage with electric fence / Ai pen around them
Works well and heifers ly in cubicles when they calve fine, used to getting up out of the muck.

I was caught for space one year so put my heifers calves in disused drysow house with stalls . after 2/3 days most of them used the stalls instead of the slats even though everything had plenty straw

lazy farmer said:

we are bringing the R1s back in house this coming winter,so we will be converting a straw barn to house them.
our thoughts are to put in cubicles down each side and have a central feed passage. shed is 43 ft wide.
so my questions are are cubicles the right thing to do and if so what type of cubicle should we use? the plastic cubicles we prefer for the cows i don't think are suitable as training cubicles.

chris

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How are you feeding them ? Wagon, bales, grabs ?