jackyoung123123
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Could we please have pictures of your suckler/beef cattle sheds/setup for inspiration and to help decide and design what type of shed i want to put up!
My shed it’s fairly standard really, I’m using all five bays now. It’s 50’ wide, 75’ in length and 18’ to eves.Could we please have pictures of your suckler/beef cattle sheds/setup for inspiration and to help decide and design what type of shed i want to put up!
what are your cattle being fed hay? is there manure fairly solid, we have been feeding our sucklers on hay and they are still having lose manure, theyve been wormed been tested for BVD and all the other virous that can cause this but still have lose manure, we are considering slatsView attachment 606368
My shed it’s fairly standard really, I’m using all five bays now. It’s 50’ wide, 75’ in length and 18’ to eves.
I scrape along the feed barrier every other day, which saves on a fair bit of straw
when you say you dont have to muck them out im guessing you mean the bedded area. how often do you scrape the scrape passage way, is it usally slurry or solid manure that is in this passage way and do you have a slurry tank or just a general muck pit that you scrape it to?View attachment 606380The bedded area is 3` below where they standing, in a wet winter i dont have to muck them out at all, the scrape passage is 13` wide and save s a lot of straw it holds 80 cows n calves and two bulls.
clean passage every 3rd day give or take, yea i have an above ground store for another shed with 100 cubicals so i had somewhere to put the slurry.when you say you dont have to muck them out im guessing you mean the bedded area. how often do you scrape the scrape passage way, is it usally slurry or solid manure that is in this passage way and do you have a slurry tank or just a general muck pit that you scrape it to?
yours is the type of shed im looking for, i currently have no muck pit or slurry store, what would you recommend? personally i like the idea of an underground tank beneath the scrape passage way and have at one end have a hole in the ground, gated off so cattle cannot fall in it, i think this idea may work better than slats and may be a lot cheaper i would have a safety gate like this to scrape underneath itclean passage every 3rd day give or take, yea i have an above ground store for another shed with 100 cubicals so i had somewhere to put the slurry.
All I can think of is that you hay is high in protein, perhaps get that quality tested, if you haven’t alreadywhat are your cattle being fed hay? is there manure fairly solid, we have been feeding our sucklers on hay and they are still having lose manure, theyve been wormed been tested for BVD and all the other virous that can cause this but still have lose manure, we are considering slats
no they havent had any nuts, they are just having hay, it is first cutAll I can think of is that you hay is high in protein, perhaps get that quality tested, if you haven’t already
also are they having any beef nuts?
I find beef nuts make my cattle have loose dung.
We are looking into a slatted shed, I started a thread on it yesterday.
Mine are having bale silage this winter, as I never managed to make any haylage. I got the weather wrong and had to bale the grass up on a hurry.no they havent had any nuts, they are just having hay, it is first cut
im thinking this idea here with the slurry/scrape gate if you understand my child like drawings! also ive just noticed your in Shropshire! not too far away from me! im in the Newtown area, last year we were in Nesscliffe though, have moved sinceMine are having bale silage this winter, as I never managed to make any haylage. I got the weather wrong and had to bale the grass up on a hurry.
The slurry gate pictured earlier looks good.
Hilly what do you think of the hole straight into the tank and the slurry gate as pictured above? do you think it will make life eaiser as some cattles manure can be solid so will not flow eaisly down the slats even once scraped once or twice?just put slatts on as a top
Id put slatts on top if it were mine.Hilly what do you think of the hole straight into the tank and the slurry gate as pictured above? do you think it will make life eaiser as some cattles manure can be solid so will not flow eaisly down the slats even once scraped once or twice?
one of the best ive seen, when you say stackable? how stackable is it very solid manure, what are you feeding themView attachment 606620
10” kerb between scrape passage and bed. Scraped out 3 times a week, it is stackable so no slurry to deal with. Those water troughs are the best thing about the yard, I’ve just put them in an I love them. Tip them out every time I scrape.
It was previously an open yard with no kerb and a massive water trough at one end. I will be making all my yards like this over the next year.
sorry to be a pain, what is the width of the straw littered part and the scrape passage way?They are on a finishing ration, taking about 10kgs of barley couple of kgs protein 3kg haylage atm. I can stack it in the yard to about 6ft quite easily. I tip it in the field. I admit wet silage and it would probably be quite different.
sorry to be a pain, what is the width of the straw littered part and the scrape passage way?