poultry muck storage

[henman]

We have 4 16000 multi tier sheds muck removed 3 times a week .has any body any I dear how many sq meters or feet a shed would have to be to hold 6 months of muck for NVZ

 

[MrA.G.]

It should be easy to work out by multiplying the cubic metres of muck you take weekly by the number of weeks you want to store it for.

Divide this value by the stackable height of the manure and that gets your floor area required?

 

[henman]

Has any body built a poultry muck store ,How do stop the muck running out of the door

 

[Al R]

Has any body built a poultry muck store ,How do stop the muck running out of the door

Make it like a brewers grain pit where the floor is sloping inwards, the obvious major problem is rain water will fill it too. Having a gutter system going down it on the floor every 20’ running under the walls with a sluice so that rain water runs out under the walls, as the muck gets near each gutter close the sluice’s. Basically the opposite of a silage pit.

 

[puma power]

I told you it would have to be @henman!!!!!

 

[Hard Graft]

build it bigger than you need but also keep it wide so you can tip quite a few loads but not block your self for pushing up so you can still get to the pile face to allow stacking easier.

 

[Retraceh]

are you drying it so you can push it up into a heap and it stays in the heap?

 

[R J]

Prob not much help to you as you are multi teir , but this is our muck store with flat deck muck in , we push it up to about 15 feet high with a grain pusher
Building is 75×40 with 12 foot walls
Holds 2× 16000 bird houses worth of muck easily

 

[SilliamWhale]

Has any body built a poultry muck store ,How do stop the muck running out of the door

Do you want to pay me to take it?

 

[Only]

Prob not much help to you as you are multi teir , but this is our muck store with flat deck muck in , we push it up to about 15 feet high with a grain pusher
Building is 75×40 with 12 foot walls
Holds 2× 16000 bird houses worth of muck easily

Whats that hold 1000 ton?

 

[henman]

Do you want to pay me to take it?

I am selling muck for £5 a ton witch is worth £25 a ton ,plus with the price of fert rising more farmers will consider poultry manure .If I build a store and supply the muck when farmers want it will be more appealing .

 

[Only]

How high will multi tier muck store?

 

[R J]

Whats that hold 1000 ton?

When it comes out of our sheds its dried down to about 60% dry matter so then weighs about 450 -500 tons

 

[R J]

How high will multi tier muck store?

I think multi teir muck is in the region of 30% dry matter so would struggle to get it anywhere near the night we do , others may have more info on how well it stacks

 

[Only]

When it comes out of our sheds its dried down to about 60% dry matter so then weighs about 450 -500 tons

How do u dry it

 

[R J]

How do u dry it

We dont "dry" it as such , it's more as we have big dutchman flat deck sheds and the ventilation is very good so the manure come out at the end of the flock much dryer

 

[henman]

multi tier muck is like a thick sludge. Stack Hight 1.5 high at most

 

[Devil's advocate]

Deep pit empty with 360?

 

[henman]

I should do what most dairy boys do and build a open air slurry pit on a 100 acer plus blocks of land so when the hen muck gets wet you stir and umbilical the muck out on to growing crops without the weight of a heavy muck or slurry spreaders.

 

[Netherfield]

Just don't build on a hillside.

Sometime back in the 60s a family who shall remain nameless built some poultry sheds at a place called Cragg Vale, between Halifax and Hebden Bridge, kept expanding rapidly, muck became a problem to shift certain times of the year, they dug a huge hole in the banking side as a reservoir even put a lid over to keep the rain out, bear in mind this was from caged birds.

One winter the drains at The Vale got blocked and the only way it found to go was into the pit, the walls gave way and it flowed down the hillside towards Mytholmroyd, in it's path were one or two cottages, the River Calder and the Rochdale Canal. As far as I remember it bankrupted the business with the clean up costs.