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Stocking rate Slatts

  • 21-02-2013 7:13pm
    #1
    restive
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭


    How many cattle can you comforably fit in a single bay of a slatted shed. Assuming the cattle are 600kg and the slatts are 12'6?

    Is their a legal limit to the number of cattle per bay? Also taking into account the comfort of the Bullocks.

    Also would 14'6 slatts make much of a difference?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    tim04750
    Closed Accounts Posts: 216 ✭✭tim04750


    For feeding space at 15' bays you'll fit
    7 dry cows ,hereford cross not big simmys. but they'll be tight
    7 in calf heifers ,24 month
    6 heavy in calf cows
    9 300 kg weanlings if they line up right
    so I reckon 7 600 kg animals if you're not lookin to squeeze 'em too tight
    my tanks are 10' 6" and about a foot of concrete front and back giving about 12 feet of width total and there's no room to spare when they're all lying down but they stay very clean.


  • #3
    restive
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭restive


    How wide do slatts get and does it make a difference to the number of cattle n a pen?


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