New dairy setup in Denmark

[Serup]

I thought i'd upload some pictures of my ongoing project.

I'm building a shed with about 300 cubicles with sand bedding, a "wellness" area with loose housing for 50 cows and a 40/40 Boumatic side-by-side parlour with a 24.000l tank.
Then i will have another silage pit in addition to the 3 i already have and we will make a shed for concentrates (soya, osr cake, grain, sugarbeet pellets and what not)

I'm suppose to be able to put cows in cubicles sometime i august and start milking in the new parlour around 1st of october.

They will start erecting the cubicles building monday and the parlour biulding will follow soon.

The entire setup is going to be build on "slagge" which is "garbage" from powerstations after burning waste. It includes a lot of different stuff, but it's easy to compact and it's delivered here free of charge. We've had about 11.000 tons so far. Compared to building on sand, i've probably saved about £70.000-80.000 so far.

More pictures will follow as we get on with it.

 

[Serup]

Here some pictures from one of the days we got slagge delivered. It came by ship from Copenhagen. About 3700 tons/load. Harbour is about 15 km from here, and they used 12 trailers to move about 120 loads in 10 hours.
We did this 3 times total.

 

[Deereone]

Fantastic pictures. Cant wait to see more. Thank you.

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Ooo, this is going to be a big one.

 

[Only]

The dairy job is clearly better in some countries than others

 

[nick...]

Keep the pictures coming.
Nick...

 

[Serup]

The dairy job is clearly better in some countries than others

Unfortunately not.
I'm an Arla member, and get the same as everyone else. I am far from making money with my current setup and current price, and my new setup also can't make milk for what i get right now. I can however, make milk considerably cheaper with the new setup than i do today, and i now bet my economical future on better prices than we have now. If not, this will be a short spin!

On the upside, it's about 40% cheaper to build now, than in 2008 when i last tried to get going. At that time i couldn't get an environmental permision to expand. After 2009 it's been all about getting finance.

 

[JP1]

I thought i'd upload some pictures of my ongoing project.

Fascinating

We like building threads

Thanks for sharing and keep it coming

 

[Tullyvernon]

Sounds like it will be a great setup, all the best with it. Keep the photos coming

 

[sss]

Tilykke med det. Fine billeder.

 

[quattro]

Great to see people investing in dairy great pics and keep sending them hope it goes well for you

 

[jimmer]

Boumatic expressway with cotton reel exit

 

[Serup]

Boumatic expressway with cotton reel exit

Thats just about sums up what i hope to feel a few month after we start using it. It was a big part of why i bought it. It was not because of the price

 

[jimmer]

just looking into flights to copenhagen in october

 

[Serup]

just looking into flights to copenhagen in october

Well, i'm told i need all the help i can get, when we start
I'm visiting a farm tomorrow to look at 100 red cows. They are in a tie-stall so they will need a lot of "motivation" if i buy them.

 

[jimmer]

what degree do your cows stand at presently

 

[Serup]

30.
I have a 20x20 put in the old tie-stall, so cow flow is a big issue.

 

[jimmer]

we bought cows from a farm that were milking in an old hosier 30 degree parlour
trying to get them to stand at nearly 60 degrees was a monumental task , let alone 90

 

[Serup]

I have a friend who turned off 5 lely robots at christmas and turned on his new dairymaster 32/64. I hope i will have it easier than him!

 

[alan6430]

Will you still have cows in your old buildings as well?