Sheep housing
- Thread starter dazza b
- Start date
- Location
- Ballyclare Northern Ireland
First question, floor type? Straw on concrete? Straw on stone? Plastic slats? Mesh? Wooden slats?
- Location
- north Wales
Around 1.2m squared depending on ewe size, so 115 x 40ft shed would just be enough.... But then you have to decide on room for small pens, walk through troughs, round bale feeders etc etc
Straw on stone
Well I had 100x60ft in my head
- Location
- Yorkshire
Depends on your Budget but you'd maybe better off going longer and narrower. 60 will be alot bigger steel size than 40/45. So you may get more space for less money definitely worth asking them to price to different sizes
- Location
- north Wales
How are you going to feed them silage? 12cm per ewe needs about 140 feet of feeding space, and nuts? Walk through troughs take up about 10% of shed space
M-J-G
Member
Always build the biggest you can afford, you'll use it for something.
Stw88
Member
- Location
- Northumberland
That looks smart. Will you have to lift the slats to muck it out?1.2 square m on straw and 0.7 or 0.8 on slats, lots of feed space very important, I put plastic slats into an existing shed this summer, only finished last week, opening up the sides for more feed space for tmr
- Location
- Cheshire
"Twice as big as you can afford, it will still be half as big as what you need"
irish dom
Member
Lovely job. How wide is it and how did you support slats in the middle? Are you gonna knock out the walls and put in a feed rail on outside? Would be a super spot for finishing lambs1.2 square m on straw and 0.7 or 0.8 on slats, lots of feed space very important, I put plastic slats into an existing shed this summer, only finished last week, opening up the sides for more feed space for tmr
Thanks, the pens are 25 foot wide, theres a spine wall up the centre of each tank with a beam at either end, then theres runners going from either wall that the slats sit onto , the outside walls are panels so shouldnt be too hard to lift out, might feed at the ends as well, it will be used for housing lambs to finish and housing ewes from Christmas to march to save grass for lambing, will be a massive saving on straw and no winter grass being taken again
irish dom
Member
Super job and no messing lifting slats. Will you run a canopy out over the feed face on the sides to keep the feed dry?
thanks, no feck that lifting slats wanted to make it as easy as possible, not yet anyway probably see how it goes first maybe next year maybe lidded feeders around the edge shed should hold 400 plus ewes
daithi
Member
We house 350 ewes in 10, 30' x 15'9'' bays. Meal fed in walk through troughs between the bays and silage fed along the front, bedded with a teagle straw chopper, Our shed is open sided therefore the shed would be 160ft×30ft with an 8ft canopy, separate shed used for lambing pens.