dinderleat
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- Wells
Looking at getting a ventilation tube for the calf shed anyone got any recommendations?
Ventilation tube for calf shed
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dinderleat
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- Wells
Is that better? ?
We have two 120 foot Proctor fans in our cattle shed. They run fairly quietly and cost around £1 per day to run. It's hard to say if they help as we have had them in the shed from day one but we probably only get one case of Pneumonia in there per yearif that but we do also vaccinate.
Chimera
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- North Wales
We spent about £3k on vaccines, and lots on AB's in our first year of calving.
For the folllowing year we fitted a £1200 tube and fan from hydor.... no vaccines and little or no AB's......
For the folllowing year we fitted a £1200 tube and fan from hydor.... no vaccines and little or no AB's......
- Location
- Leominster, Herefordshire
We have had a number of Procter fans installed over the years on different farms I have worked on. They pretty much transform the ventilation in sheds.
newholland
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- England
A mega fan from some one like macro air is the direction to go in.
Suckndiesel
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- Newtownards
Made a few ourselves out of non perforated 12” twin wall, bit Agri looking but you notice a fair difference if they’re turned off
Seen it done with a wooden calf kennel type shed with individual pens it reduced pnuemonia but there was still a problem.just use calf hutches job sorted
I bought some layflat tubing (below ) off ebay. Punched holes in it using hole saw @4 & 8 o'clock.
Used high tensile wire threaded through tube and attached at either end of shed. One end Attached to fan the other sealed up.
The setup for a 27m shed cost about £300 plus installation. Pumping clean air into shed reduces ammonia concentration in calf shed. For us this reduced incidence of pneumonia (rough estimate) by 85%
Layflat polythene poly tubing tube *ALL SIZES & QTYS* clear- 500 GAUGE 168M roll
Used high tensile wire threaded through tube and attached at either end of shed. One end Attached to fan the other sealed up.
The setup for a 27m shed cost about £300 plus installation. Pumping clean air into shed reduces ammonia concentration in calf shed. For us this reduced incidence of pneumonia (rough estimate) by 85%
Layflat polythene poly tubing tube *ALL SIZES & QTYS* clear- 500 GAUGE 168M roll
dinderleat
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- Location
- Wells
Only trouble is they won’t bring clean air into the shed.
Headless chicken
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- West Wales
where abouts did you source the fan from?
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Dman2
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- Durham, UK
Dman2
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- Durham, UK
Made a one today
Fan cost £150 includes a speed controller
Bought a roll of plastic tube for another £ 100 ( more than enough to do 3 or 4 tubes )
Took about an hour to punch the holes out
Better than the quote of £1700 and 4 weeks waiting time I got yesterday
Fan cost £150 includes a speed controller
Bought a roll of plastic tube for another £ 100 ( more than enough to do 3 or 4 tubes )
Took about an hour to punch the holes out
Better than the quote of £1700 and 4 weeks waiting time I got yesterday
Dman2
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- Location
- Durham, UK
Will take some pics tomorrow
Can you post a link to where you bought the fan from?
Dman2
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- Durham, UK
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This is the tube
1000g Ultra Heavy Duty Layflat Tubing - Transpack
The ultimate in strength and abrasion resistance. Ideal for packing items where conventional packing may get torn off. Shop heavy duty layflat tubing.