Building a cubicle shed on a budget

[Headless chicken]

four bags does fifty cubicles in the kennels (no mats or mattresses)
six bags does 190 in the new shed (de boer mattresses)

So you just put a bit of sawdust and they lie on concrete? Any hock problems?

 

[jimmer]

Are they on mats @jimmer ? Nice looking buildings, I do like the idea of kennels, cows look very well. Good idea with the strap webbing instead of timber.

no the jersety not on mats
the strap works well but needs to be tightened now and again ,held on with coach screw and big washer

 

[Hilly]

Rainwater.

Snow will be more comfortable.

 

[jimmer]

So you just put a bit of sawdust and they lie on concrete? Any hock problems?

no hock probs yet ,they were on chopped straw untill about six weeks ago but were wasting too much and it wasnt going down the slats to the slurry channel so we thought we would try them on sawdust , being a lot lighter than the holsteins we dont expect too many sores from the cubicles

 

[multi power]

@jimmer eulb headless chicken having been thinking a lot about this idea of 3 rows of cubicles per feed fence, im coming round to the idea that with good managment of groups going to collecting yard n feeding times that its enough feed space but im still not comfortable with cubicles n feed fence on same passage, i want to be able to shut cows in feed passage only after exiting the parlour, both for mastitis prevention n also to allow for easy scraping routine

 

[multi power]

sawdust machine, sorry poor photos

 

[Headless chicken]

Agree with you mp but it makes the shed a lot cheaper

 

[multi power]

View attachment 27374 View attachment 27375 View attachment 27374 View attachment 27375 sawdust machine, sorry poor photos

 

[Blue.]

@jimmer eulb headless chicken having been thinking a lot about this idea of 3 rows of cubicles per feed fence, im coming round to the idea that with good managment of groups going to collecting yard n feeding times that its enough feed space but im still not comfortable with cubicles n feed fence on same passage, i want to be able to shut cows in feed passage only after exiting the parlour, both for mastitis prevention n also to allow for easy scraping routine

What about a drop down electric fence wire at the back of the cubicles nearest the feed passage?

 

[jimmer]

do you post dip/spray

 

[multi power]

do you post dip/spray

yes spray n plenty of it

 

[jimmer]

yes spray n plenty of it

why worry about shutting them out of the cubicles then
no post here and some go out of parlour and lie straight down (after beating the shyte out of the oopfs of course) and no probs with mastitis

 

[multi power]

why worry about shutting them out of the cubicles then
no post here and some go out of parlour and lie straight down (after beating the shyte out of the oopfs of course) and no probs with mastitis

no problem here either 41 cases in 300 cows in last 12 months, my first year here was 100 cases, but i still want less

 

[multi power]

vet told me anything under 35 cases per hundred cows is good !

 

[jimmer]

vet told me anything under 35 cases per hundred cows is good !

thats one in three ,not counting the ones that get it twice or thrice

 

[multi power]

thats one in three ,not counting the ones that get it twice or thrice

its cases, not cows but even soo thats far too many

 

[Headless chicken]

Agree that is far to many cases especially on your type of system mp.

I can't comment about home yet as we've not long been going but all things considered they are doing bloody well.

At work we are around. 40 cases per hundred I think. Way too many. I put it largely down to the type of cow and the size of parlour. 50:50 2 men so not enough individual attention.

 

[multi power]

Agree that is far to many cases especially on your type of system mp.

I can't comment about home yet as we've not long been going but all things considered they are doing bloody well.

At work we are around. 40 cases per hundred I think. Way too many. I put it largely down to the type of cow and the size of parlour. 50:50 2 men so not enough individual attention.

out of them 40 cases per hundred how many are repeat offenders? first case i tube normaly, second a longer course of different tubes, third long course of tubes plus a bottle of tylan, then dry tubes at drying off along with another bottle of tylan if she still has a high cell count

 

[multi power]

why worry about shutting them out of the cubicles then
no post here and some go out of parlour and lie straight down (after beating the shyte out of the oopfs of course) and no probs with mastitis

dont think teat spray makes any difference to mastitis, all it does is keeps teats nice n soft

 

[Headless chicken]

out of them 40 cases per hundred how many are repeat offenders? first case i tube normaly, second a longer course of different tubes, third long course of tubes plus a bottle of tylan, then dry tubes at drying off along with another bottle of tylan if she still has a high cell count

I would say probably 5/6 but until recently records haven't been good enough here so no one really knew.

We use cobactan + cob injectable on anything that's not ecoli and not too bad

Ecoli or any bad case td + marbocyl 50ml over 3 days.

It works but I don't think they need all that marb. One 20 ml jab to make sure they don't go Ill should be enough really.

At home we use td and tylan as a rule. I like tylan as it gives a bit of cover.