JMTHORNLEY
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This is the main reason I am looking into putting slats in due to the cost of straw, feeding and bedding is becoming a joke up this part of the world
You do NOT need rubber coversAs far as i am aware you need to factor in the rubber flooring over the slats, it will be a long time payback but the benefits are there, Just worries me a little if they get outlawed on welfare grounds,i believe some of the premium named sire scheme don't allow them
that's when the comfort slat mats come in to there ownThat was the thing i was thinking of with the tower! We have one slatted shed now but is about 17 ishh years old but the tank is wider than the shed so nice and easy to stirr we just have a lid so just remove that with the tractor and put the stirrer in.
Wel yes on my calculations i thought 150 on the slats so the cows. Then there would be room for 150 on straw. I know that alot of farmers in Ireland have gone down the slats every where root havent they!? But they might be right, with straw the prices they are this year it's alot of saving, but i wouldn't like really young stock on slats like weanlings, dont think they would do as well would they
conc alone to make the pit
@ 400 thick walls 150 floor as a guess
floor slab 15 thick = 80 cube £6400
perimeter wall 30.5+17+30.5+17 x 3m x.4 = 114 cube £9120
internal walls to mount slats on? 30.5m x 3m x .4 =36.6cube x3 walls = 146 cube £11712
£27,232
plus the excavation above £26100
= £53,332
and I still think I'm short ie no labour or rebar for slab no slats allowed yet