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Cattle per pin

  • 14-09-2011 2:01pm
    #1
    RobinBanks
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    Hello All,

    Just wondering what would be the max number of cows I could put into the pins in the slated house. The slats are 12ft and the width is the standard bay width. There are cubicles in each pin. Last year I had 6 in each pin and it looked like they had plenty of room. This year I was thinking of putting in 7 per pin. The cows are pretty big ~700 - 800kg I suppose. As the cows start calving they are removed from the slats for a few weeks so if things work out this year I will have all 5 calving pins filled for a few weeks. This would mean that there wouldn't always have to be 7 cows per pin, but between Nov and Jan it will be a full house. Is this to many? or has anyone ever put more than 7 into a pin?

    I was also wondering the same about weanlings. I am going to keep all the heifer weanlings and buy a few more to fill the pin. I would like to have 10 in total but maybe this is to many for one pin. I know they wont all be able to eat at the one time but I wont be feeding meal, so from this point of view it wont matter.

    I would like to know what others do with the same set up as I have.


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