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<blockquote data-quote="StormurShepherd" data-source="post: 7547115" data-attributes="member: 49890"><p>The farm I worked on in Iceland and others I was shown photos of, all used slats, albeit wooden ones. The newer sheep sheds are built with the plastic slats mind you. House from November to May and saw no foot issues in the 800 or so there.</p><p></p><p>As previous posters have said, you save loads of money on straw, which is rare as hell in Iceland to start with. The only maintenance I had to do was use a 7ft long scraper/pokey tool between a few slats if any haylage/poop mix blocked a hole. I'd scrape each slatted bonding pen out between each set of ewe + lambs, followed by sanitising powder. and bit of sawdust on top. Much easier than concrete or dirt shed floors.</p><p></p><p>Much preferred this system to any I worked with before or since.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="StormurShepherd, post: 7547115, member: 49890"] The farm I worked on in Iceland and others I was shown photos of, all used slats, albeit wooden ones. The newer sheep sheds are built with the plastic slats mind you. House from November to May and saw no foot issues in the 800 or so there. As previous posters have said, you save loads of money on straw, which is rare as hell in Iceland to start with. The only maintenance I had to do was use a 7ft long scraper/pokey tool between a few slats if any haylage/poop mix blocked a hole. I'd scrape each slatted bonding pen out between each set of ewe + lambs, followed by sanitising powder. and bit of sawdust on top. Much easier than concrete or dirt shed floors. Much preferred this system to any I worked with before or since. [/QUOTE]
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