- Location
- Easter ross
Taking finishing lambs inside due to the weather and not doing. Will sawdust be better on there feet than straw over a longer period. 2 sources on our doorstep, one being free if available and the other £20/t.
Sawdust to replace straw
- Thread starter Kip
- Start date
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
We'd a shed of 85 stores on sawdust only last year and they did fine.
Bedding on sand and sawdust this winter and both working fine so far.
Northeastfarmer
Member
- Location
- Cleveland
You want rape straw
- Location
- Leicestershire
What's so good about rape straw for lambs?
Northeastfarmer
Member
- Location
- Cleveland
Doesn’t stick to their feet
- Location
- Easter ross
Don't have rape straw, carrot boys usually mop it all up too.
dannewhouse
Member
- Location
- huddersfield
anyone else any sawdust bedding stats to compare?
I'm bedding 30 stores (march/april born) and I'm currently putting 14 bags in 3x per week at 20kg per bag that's 840kg per week or 120kg per day so for 150 days as stated above (theres was 25 oct till 1 may) mine is 18,000 so my stats would suggest half the number of cattle?
my weights might not be correct just a guess (big bags that are on edge of splitting when lifted)
my sawdust is oak, I don't know if that's better or worse than others?
I reckon I would have been using 1x4ft round per week in bedding and they were cleaner on straw @35 per ton sawdust mine would be costing 29.40 per week so straw is still cheeper? 4ft rounds were £15 per bale delivered to farm this harvest.
I'm bedding 30 stores (march/april born) and I'm currently putting 14 bags in 3x per week at 20kg per bag that's 840kg per week or 120kg per day so for 150 days as stated above (theres was 25 oct till 1 may) mine is 18,000 so my stats would suggest half the number of cattle?
my weights might not be correct just a guess (big bags that are on edge of splitting when lifted)
my sawdust is oak, I don't know if that's better or worse than others?
I reckon I would have been using 1x4ft round per week in bedding and they were cleaner on straw @35 per ton sawdust mine would be costing 29.40 per week so straw is still cheeper? 4ft rounds were £15 per bale delivered to farm this harvest.
Could you explain how you go about this?
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Yes. Just get a load of recycled wood. Put it in a couple inches at a time. Top up when it gets black. Sands a new one for us put in about 8". Been on it a few weeks and still looks same as it went in. There feet go down through it so guess that aids agitation. They've got straw on other side of shed. Would be 120x20' on sand.
Also use sawdust down pass sides and in front of feed bunkers. Basically areas that get a lot of traffic.
Northeastfarmer
Member
- Location
- Cleveland
Do you keep adding to the sand? Or have to clean out and start again after so long?
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Have been advised to clean out and start again. Apparently it goes like porridge eventually. I've been taking advice from the islanders up north! @bigw
- Location
- East Sussex
Talking to a sawdust supplier today who normally will be shifting up to 3 artic loads a week at this time of the year, but all of his suppliers have run out. There is up to a months wait at the moment.
He is hoping to get it from Europe, taking hay out and bringing back sawdust.
He is hoping to get it from Europe, taking hay out and bringing back sawdust.
ollie989898
Member
It must be stored dry. Damp sawdust can give you some very exotic mastitis or respiratory illness.
- Location
- Ceredigion
more like 20 ton a month .
- Location
- Ceredigion
Forget straw the price is rediculas
Northeastfarmer
Member
- Location
- Cleveland
It’s ridiculous as well
Think it's easing now , demand has gone .
- Location
- Ceredigion
gone up £30 ton this week since those two auctions .
Not here it hasn't .