Sheep slatted shed design

[WelshLamb21]

Do you add the water before the sheep are put on the slats or just before pumping out?

start of the winter, only around a 6"- 1ft of water. chap up in Scotland told me about it. works well.

 

[neilo]

start of the winter, only around a 6"- 1ft of water. chap up in Scotland told me about it. works well.

Are you feeding down both sides of the pens, if so, how? The outside alleys look too narrow for machinery in your first photo, which might just be the photo of course.

 

[WelshLamb21]

Are you feeding down both sides of the pens, if so, how? The outside alleys look too narrow for machinery in your first photo, which might just be the photo of course.

Pic of last year

so the first pic on the old post is before we took the shed out each side to add another 2 x12ft feed passages.
So each ewe has just about 9” of feed space on the TMR.

 

[aled1590]

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Pic of last year

so the first pic on the old post is before we took the shed out each side to add another 2 x12ft feed passages.
So each ewe has just about 9” of feed space on the TMR.

I see on the 1st pic of building it on far right of picture the tank is higher and looks shallow where the ewes stand to feed, does the muck work it’s way down to the deep part easily?

 

[WelshLamb21]

I see on the 1st pic of building it on far right of picture the tank is higher and looks shallow where the ewes stand to feed, does the muck work it’s way down to the deep part easily?

Yes it’s a shelf on the side of the tanks- We hose it down every now and again but will just about do a season.
we do take that row of slats up once a year after ewes are out and push muck into the tank. Not ideal but it allows us to put an extra 100 ewes in the shed.
As I said we were working with an existing shed before digging tanks so the best we could do.

 

[ringi]

start of the winter, only around a 6"- 1ft of water. chap up in Scotland told me about it. works well.

Does it increase ammonia emission hence reduce N compared to FYM?

 

[aled1590]

Yes it’s a shelf on the side of the tanks- We hose it down every now and again but will just about do a season.
we do take that row of slats up once a year after ewes are out and push muck into the tank. Not ideal but it allows us to put an extra 100 ewes in the shed.
As I said we were working with an existing shed before digging tanks so the best we could do.

You have a great set up

 

[WelshLamb21]

You have a great set up

Thanks

 

[WelshLamb21]

Does it increase ammonia emission hence reduce N compared to FYM?

Not sure, reduce ammonia emission I would say rather than increase ammonia emissions as you can’t smell it…. But not sure tbh.

 

[beardface]

How many you get in there 500?

 

[WelshLamb21]

How many you get in there 500?

540 we have had in there (90/pen) but 500 comfortably.

 

[beardface]

Smart job that.

 

[jackstor]

Getting the slats in

 

[Floordoor]

We put slats in half a shed about 10 years ago, tank is only 3ft deep, sump tank at one end, suck out with tanker as and when needed then put a tanker load of water back in, never had to lift them to muck out yet.

 

[Hill Ground]

So excuse my ignorance, what is the constancy is sheep slat slurry compared to say dairy cow slurry?

 

[Floordoor]

So excuse my ignorance, what is the constancy is sheep slat slurry compared to say dairy cow slurry?

Find it doesn’t seperate and form a crust like cow slurry, suck a load in and blow it back out a couple of times and it’s mixed enough to spread. Obviously depends how much water is in to start with.

 

[aled1590]

Getting the slats in

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How many ewes will you put in each pen and how much feed space per ewe?

 

[jackstor]

How many ewes will you put in each pen and how much feed space per ewe?

Not sure yet, I would guess 250-300.
We’ve 400 lambs on at the moment. As for feed space, we’ll have less than recommended, but everything is TMR so it’s not an issue as long as they always have feed in front of them.

 

[jackstor]

 

[jackstor]