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Slats or straw or wood chip for lambing???
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<blockquote data-quote="Agrivator" data-source="post: 7138545" data-attributes="member: 461"><p>One small bale or a tenth of a round bale.</p><p></p><p>But much more if water troughs leak or rain can blow in.</p><p></p><p>Slats are expensive, and sheep muck is too dry to treat like cattle slurry. And it's a bugger when you drop your knife and it disappears through the slats.</p><p></p><p>So: </p><p> 1. Find out how much slats would cost. </p><p> 2. Instead, spend the money on building as much roof space as you can</p><p> 3. Keep the sheep at much reduced stocking rates in the bigger building, and their requirement for straw bedding will be much reduced.</p><p></p><p>As a general principle, and at least for cattle, if you reduce the stocking density by half, you reduce the requirement for straw bedding by two thirds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Agrivator, post: 7138545, member: 461"] One small bale or a tenth of a round bale. But much more if water troughs leak or rain can blow in. Slats are expensive, and sheep muck is too dry to treat like cattle slurry. And it's a bugger when you drop your knife and it disappears through the slats. So: 1. Find out how much slats would cost. 2. Instead, spend the money on building as much roof space as you can 3. Keep the sheep at much reduced stocking rates in the bigger building, and their requirement for straw bedding will be much reduced. As a general principle, and at least for cattle, if you reduce the stocking density by half, you reduce the requirement for straw bedding by two thirds. [/QUOTE]
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