Best Cubicle House Setup?

[Beef farmer]

Yes

 

[Fergieman]

Have you any concerns with gas and cattle in the shed at the time as mixing or what way do you work it?

Mix it on an airy day with the cattle still in shed.

 

[Sid]

Do you want the "best" shed or the most "cost effective".
I do see alot of expense that will need paying for on a 5 year average of sub 25ppl?

 

[ollie989898]

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Not a great picture but have a 4 robot shed with central passage as wanted locking yokes. Could be 2 robots each side but only have 3 as have a dry cow yard in the 4th corner at the mo.

Have eco slats under the robots and where the cows enter/exit and saves me hours a week. Can wash down in 5 mins a day, auto scrapers go within 6 inches of the robots.

Not on sand have waterbeds with sawdust, use £15 worth of sawdust a day to do 210 cubicles with a wheelbarrow and shovel.

That is sexy. I'd be happy to do a days work in that.

Regarding slats, if you have them, install an aerator system, and let it aerate the stuff daily at night. Less messing about and more importantly no dangerous gases. It's foxxing lethal.

 

[ollie989898]

Not got robots, but got to be slatted passages. Feet are always dry and cleaner. Slurry is little hassle and apart from mixing it once a month, mechanicaly free.

Put aerator system under the slats!

 

[Fraserb]

Put aerator system under the slats!

Why? The slalom system works fine

 

[ollie989898]

Why? The slalom system works fine

No need to stir them. No gases. Little electric motor blows air through plastic pipes using off peak juice. Pennies to run and a fully aerated consistent product. I wouldn't have believed anyone if they had suggested it but I have seen one in action and it has been working well for several years now. Much less smell as well.

 

[Fraserb]

No need to stir them. No gases. Little electric motor blows air through plastic pipes using off peak juice. Pennies to run and a fully aerated consistent product. I wouldn't have believed anyone if they had suggested it but I have seen one in action and it has been working well for several years now. Much less smell as well.

We can run our slalom at night on cheap electricity as well, dont get any smell as its constantly mixed.

 

[RichardWheelwright]

There are many different designs for Robots on you farm, It all depends on the farm as each is different. It is finding the best solution that will work for you. This can be difficult decision to get it correct. The only way is to start at the cow. What dose she want? If you where the cow what would you want? Ask theses questions and start to plan though the cows eyes. This video explains a little of what we did.

 

[Llmmm]

Hi, have been trying to plan a greenfield 2 robot shed. Many options have been drawn. Thinking of delaval robots with milk first setup. Siting robots in the middle of the shed with cubicles at either end to run as 2 groups fresh and stale.

The question is do i put a central tank under the robots and separation pens for slurry (20mx25mx3m). Then using robotic scraper to scrape slurry from feed and cubicle passages to central tank (max distance to scrape would be 30m). Is solid concrete floors adequate or slats over a channel?
Or try sand cubicles as cows will be housed all year round but worried about slurry system to use and the expense of setting up and maintaining. Would scrape (with robotic scraper) sand ladened slurry to a channel which would drain to a sloped reception settling tank with a weir to a second tank with a weir into a third tank to supply a separator. Liquid fraction would go to tank under robots.

Would the sand system work with settling tanks being scraped out when sedimented up. Or would sand fill tank under robot or destroy pumps and tankers?

Would maintaing sand cubicles be a lot more time consuming compared to mattresses and sawdust/lime mix.
Any advantage of the sand mattress setups over deep sand cubicles?

Sorry for the multiple questions!

Just step back and look what your going to spend and how much youll make and how hard youll work for it.People have a fairytale idea of robots and dairy farming if you got loads of easy money go for it