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Looks a proper job that ! Your cows should be more content, not having to wrestle their way into feeders etc. Nice work !
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Same arrangement as our neighbour has on his sheep shed. His panels are at a steeper angle but I suppose he doesn't need as much 'trough volume' for sheep.
Can't beat a bit of designing 'on the hoof'Umm'd and ahh'd for a bit whether to lift and set steeper then decided it would be fine and cracked on!
Looks a proper job that ! Your cows should be more content, not having to wrestle their way into feeders etc. Nice work !
Ewes were all Flukiver dosed last week, Vectocert sprayed and the tups pulled off didn't take any pics though ewes much fitter than I expected, especially the hill ewes which don't have much grass at all... another week and they will be away to the hill proper until lambing.
Totally un-sheep related, but this is the job this past few days. We bought an immaculate 2014 Kuhn Primor to bed the cattle with back in October - with an eye to feeding the silage bales through it too.
The estate put the (2nd hand) shed up to replace a falling down stone barn in 2004... at the time we fitted the crash barrier feed barrier... The shed is built into a hill, the other side is shuttered concrete to 7ft high which is where the floor level is... the digger driver got carried away as the hardcore was hauled in and he raised the road level to where it is above the level of the shed, creating an open ditch. We fed silage bales in it for a year or 2, but with it just being earth there was an awful lot of waste and took alot of digging out.. so we gave up and have been using feed trailers and ring feeders ever since...
We decided concrete panels laid would be the best (easiest) way to make an instant feed area so got some ordered. 130' long in total but we left a 15' bay at one end and 10' at the other clear otherwise it would be too tight getting trailers or lorries round, so 105' of feed area. Panels are in at roughly 45degrees and sat onto concrete blocks to keep them all the same(ish) level, with a drainage pipe underneath. There's blocks to be cemented up at either end to close off the trough, and we will backfill underneath the panels... but we finished laying today and tomorrow is the long awaited first feed (and not before time!!).
(I would like that road concreted... but loathe to do it when we are just tenants)
How will you prevent rain water getting into shed & wetting bedding?
@Ysgythan will be really disappointed to read that
It’s as if you’re suggesting I’m the pervert...
I had a Highlander did the same. He wasn’t doing much chasing, so I wasn’t in any particular hurry to get the mob in to sort him out. He happened to be near the quad & trailer just before Christmas, so I pulled him off then. I put h8m out with a mob of 100 other rams, two fields and three decent fences away.
That mob of ewes stayed on that parkland block after, using up some 5 year old hay. Putting a bale out on New Year’s Day, I looked round to see that Highlander ram stood grinning at me. He’s never been a wanderer before.
He stayed in a shed for the next week, before going into onto stubble turnips where he could be surrounded by leccy fences. Still there, today anyway....
Like these 2?...
Those are 2 fine looking beasts
I was thinking of using Cheviot on the Lleyns, but decide against it... Breeding pedigree