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<blockquote data-quote="Longlowdog" data-source="post: 8621003" data-attributes="member: 395"><p>I doubt folk are posting because polytunnel lambing sheds aren't really pretty, though I'd love to be surprised. In my experience of 9mx50m tunnels there's a flippin huge amount of climbing over gates to reach pens and they are a faff to feed and water when things get busy. With 6 foot pens you can (if the side rails are high enough) squeeze two rows of touching pens on either side with a center pass but getting dry lambs and ewes out is an erse o' a job and a single row on either side is a waste of space.</p><p> In an ideal world I'd have two tunnels, one with pregnant ewes and another with pens and ewes with lambs would be led out to the second tunnel at birth. </p><p> I worked one place with three, lambing in, drying off for 24hrs and a communal pen for 24hrs and then out.</p><p> I've never seen a neat arrangement for commercial numbers and none that inspired me to build a tunnel for myself. If it's what you've got the system just kind of evolves as you modify it under the current pressure to improvise and adapt. </p><p> Sorry not to be of much help. It's just my experience. If someone came up with a 40' wide tunnel that could stand up to N.E Scotland weather they'd sell a bunch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Longlowdog, post: 8621003, member: 395"] I doubt folk are posting because polytunnel lambing sheds aren't really pretty, though I'd love to be surprised. In my experience of 9mx50m tunnels there's a flippin huge amount of climbing over gates to reach pens and they are a faff to feed and water when things get busy. With 6 foot pens you can (if the side rails are high enough) squeeze two rows of touching pens on either side with a center pass but getting dry lambs and ewes out is an erse o' a job and a single row on either side is a waste of space. In an ideal world I'd have two tunnels, one with pregnant ewes and another with pens and ewes with lambs would be led out to the second tunnel at birth. I worked one place with three, lambing in, drying off for 24hrs and a communal pen for 24hrs and then out. I've never seen a neat arrangement for commercial numbers and none that inspired me to build a tunnel for myself. If it's what you've got the system just kind of evolves as you modify it under the current pressure to improvise and adapt. Sorry not to be of much help. It's just my experience. If someone came up with a 40' wide tunnel that could stand up to N.E Scotland weather they'd sell a bunch. [/QUOTE]
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