- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
The bit I scrape is concrete, rest is just 14 inches or so of woodchip.So the floor is concrete?
Don't it get very messy?
Here we would scrape out every couple of days, just the bit where they feed and bed down the rest with straw every couple of days
The secret is getting the silage bang-on for DM%, too wet is no good as they too loose, and too dry is both impossible to feed in a wind and won't tramp into the chip -"like a horse paddock" apparently.
I've nice silage, and just as well, I'm about 6 metres into the shallow end of a 37 metre stack, in 5 weeks.. Will be lucky to get through it by the end of next winter
Have more cattle coming so that will help trample the muck in, much like a slat floor from what I've read on here about them.
If you put more cattle in then they stay cleaner?
Cheap, anyway, 70 cube of chip for $1442 delivered- $12/hd for bedding?
Don't have a long winter down here.