Beef building - green field site

[S J H]

Any chance of a few photos in daylight, I'd be very intetested to see more of it, as it looks a good shed.

Yes, will try to get some tomorrow

 

[S J H]

ive never worked a scraping passage do you bed it at all? if not is it sore on their feet?

I've never had a problem, I scrape it out most days and there's usually 1/2 a loadall bucket of muck so it saves a fair bit of straw imo. I think I'm using about about 1 4' round bale per day for 40 head.

 

[S J H]

How many heads would you put in that shed comfortably? Nice set up!

I think 15 cows per pen is about right, so 45 over 3 bays.

 

[Forever Fendt]

I've never had a problem, I scrape it out most days and there's usually 1/2 a loadall bucket of muck so it saves a fair bit of straw imo. I think I'm using about about 1 4' round bale per day for 40 head.

Its a good design,would you do anything different with the benefit of hindsight ? do you have a straw blower to bed from the back along the open side

 

[S J H]

Its a good design,would you do anything different with the benefit of hindsight ? do you have a straw blower to bed from the back along the open side

Sorry for the delay @Forever Fendt I just drop round bales from the scrape passage after I've scraped up, a 4' round bale does 1 pen pretty well

I probably would of put the office/store in a front extension of the building, so had a 20' wide 'porch' on the front, I think it would have looked quite smart, bricked up, then go through there into the main shed, and then there could have been 2 calving pens either side. But that would have used a lot more room on the front and pushed the other building back a fair way. The office is a bit of lost space, but I expected to use it a lot more for calving if it had taken a long time to get the house.

 

[S J H]

Just about to ai a couple, so close the first pen up, then the second pen can use 18 spaces of barriers.

I'm planning the left hand shed to have 2 pens of 2 bays either end with a joint creep pen in the middle, which can be closed off either side. The nearest pen will have the first and the second barrier in front of the creep iyswim. The gates are to get calved cows across to the other shed to the calving pens.

Just trying to work out on the far end whether to have troughs for hard feed or just sheeted doors and troughs on legs, it will probably be the latter, then they can be used in front of the barriers if it's just for finishing.

 

[JMTHORNLEY]

I have so much shed envy it's unreal. I've said it before but this really is a cracking set up, well thought through! Real credit to you there

 

[Forever Fendt]

Just about to ai a couple, so close the first pen up, then the second pen can use 18 spaces of barriers.
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I'm planning the left hand shed to have 2 pens of 2 bays either end with a joint creep pen in the middle, which can be closed off either side. The nearest pen will have the first and the second barrier in front of the creep iyswim. The gates are to get calved cows across to the other shed to the calving pens.

Just trying to work out on the far end whether to have troughs for hard feed or just sheeted doors and troughs on legs, it will probably be the latter, then they can be used in front of the barriers if it's just for finishing.
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Grand job @S J H i see you have angled the yokes on the new shed,I would love a set up the same

 

[Forever Fendt]

I have so much shed envy it's unreal. I've said it before but this really is a cracking set up, well thought through! Real credit to you there

I wonder if there is any copyright

 

[JMTHORNLEY]

I wonder if there is any copyright

I wonder the same.... Could it be replicated....?

 

[S J H]

Grand job @S J H i see you have angled the yokes on the new shed,I would love a set up the same

yes was going to try it like that, got a few with a bald hard bit on their necks.

I wonder if there is any copyright

I'd swap the design for a 160' x 50'. I'll do the cladding.

 

[Forever Fendt]

I wonder the same.... Could it be replicated....?

"imitation is the greatest form of flattery " (prize for anyone who knows who's quote that is )

 

[JMTHORNLEY]

"imitation is the greatest form of flattery " (prize for anyone who knows who's quote that is )

I actually know this and it's Charles Caleb I believe?

 

[S J H]

"imitation is the greatest form of flattery " (prize for anyone who knows who's quote that is )

Morris crushes?

 

[Forever Fendt]

Morris crushes?

its nothing like, Its a hybrid

 

[shearerlad]

Lots of different opinions about troughs on this thread.
What about a compromise of a 1 in 4 slope of about 2’ down towards the barriers. This wouldn’t maybe contain feed but would make it harder for stock to nudge it out of reach and also easy to clean out any spoil/waste feed

 

[wellingtonfarmer]

Lots of different opinions about troughs on this thread.
What about a compromise of a 1 in 4 slope of about 2’ down towards the barriers. This wouldn’t maybe contain feed but would make it harder for stock to nudge it out of reach and also easy to clean out any spoil/waste feed

Still wouldn't be able to scrape it out

 

[organicguy]

We will not be putting a trough and are also looking at how we can minimise the impact of the stantions jutting out into the feed area so it can be scraped up easily.

 

[Forever Fendt]

We will not be putting a trough and are also looking at how we can minimise the impact of the stantions jutting out into the feed area so it can be scraped up easily.

a shuttered dwarf wall the width of the uprights or have a panel made the same width as the upright with rebated end also works well

 

[shearerlad]

Still wouldn't be able to scrape it out

Dad sweeps every trough before every feed, even if it’s just a handful of straw from the bedder