James Stoyles
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- Location
- South East
Hello,
I had a web site page from ahdb saved to my favorites but it can't be found when i try to open it. It had on it how to calculate straw usage for bedding down housed beef cattle. How do people work out how much straw they need?
Would be for a shed 18m x 12m divided into 3/4 pens , 50 weaned native calves (200kg) for 5/6 months. Outside feed face but whole area bedded no option for scrapped section so probably mucked out more often to prevent build up of bedding getting to high along feed barrier. Would want them well bedded to keep clean and prevent any waste run off from shed. Would have wind breakers to prevent worst of wet weather getting in. Would ideally like to bed down every other day. Would this work?
Roughly how much straw would i need?
Thanks for any help - James
I had a web site page from ahdb saved to my favorites but it can't be found when i try to open it. It had on it how to calculate straw usage for bedding down housed beef cattle. How do people work out how much straw they need?
Would be for a shed 18m x 12m divided into 3/4 pens , 50 weaned native calves (200kg) for 5/6 months. Outside feed face but whole area bedded no option for scrapped section so probably mucked out more often to prevent build up of bedding getting to high along feed barrier. Would want them well bedded to keep clean and prevent any waste run off from shed. Would have wind breakers to prevent worst of wet weather getting in. Would ideally like to bed down every other day. Would this work?
Roughly how much straw would i need?
Thanks for any help - James