There are dozens of threads about cubicles on here, and I've been working my way through them, the costs mentioned are around £1k per cow. Today I was told I'd be looking at £2k per cow. Now I do want to do a good job, with plenty of space, but I don't want automatic curtains or light ridges or any of that. So what is a reasonable amount to get a good job?
Cubicle shed costs
- Thread starter O'Reilly
- Start date
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Half that if theres no roof?
Ye, right. I know @Headless chicken is a fan.......not!Half that if theres no roof?
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Sorry I got you and him confused, thought it was you without the roof
should change his name to roofless chicken 
Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
lack of a roof is wearing pretty thin on me now
Barmyfarmer
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There's a shed for 13000 litre holsteins in ayr and there's a shed for 8000 litre cows 6 month a year housed. Im a cheap skate, I reckon £1k a cubicle should be achievable
ollie989898
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Use automatic scrapers and have a slurry grid/weir system each end.
Plan to here, but not in £1k a cow, but worth it as after 35 years on a scraper I’ve had enough!
ollie989898
Member
You will wonder how you ever coped without them. You going with rope scrapers? Just make sure there is a slurry grid each end of the run, don't ever run one way scrapers just trust me on that...
Had rope scrapers, excellent, but we extended the shed and went to sand, so the channel was in the wrong place and wrong type. New shed has a sand channel and existing shed will this summer, but won’t be at both ends as it won’t work here.
frederick
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- Location
- south west
Presume your sand Chanel is at the end xways. How long is your scraped passage.
200’
dairydurham
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How long are you hoping the rope to last ?. We put rope in & sand,& the rope doesnt last long enough, but I was warned. TBH its not a big job to renew the rope.
Lot of variables when costing out a shed.
Site .. does it need much groundwork?
Size ... will determine steelwork especially if clear span
Painted or galvanised
Slatted?
Roof lights or solid
200 lux lighting?
Water troughs ... number and spec
Cubicles .. sand or mats. Budget up to £200/cow place
Etc etc but there are standard costings based on squared metre/sq. ft
To be honest the Harrymatic rope gave little bother, even though the scrapers wore away. Apparently new rope is stronger and thinner, whether this is a good thing I don’t know.
dairydurham
Member
Ours is Storth 20mm rope
So far had CowCare and Pollock quotes, will get Harrymatic and Storth shortly.