Sheep on slats

horsemad

I have a slatted house with cattle slats. But have changed system to sheep is there any way to convert it for them

rancher

horsemad wrote: »

I have a slatted house with cattle slats. But have changed system to sheep is there any way to convert it for them

I have wintered 200 ewes on straw bedded slats for the last 5 or 6 years....just roll out the round bales like a carpet for the first bedding and then carry on as normal.
The dung goes rotten by the following september,and I use a microdigger with a levelling bucket to clean it out.

iverjohnston

Doing it this year for the first time. Ironically, the better the straw is, the more they will scratch it around, and jiggle it down between the slats. If you have "weathered" bales they would be good for a base. where they are standing feeding at the barriers I made, they tend to push the straw away.

buffalobilly

what about putting them
in multipurpose slats
would they be to cold
on just slat with no straw ??

yellow50HX

was at a farm walk a few years ago and the farmer had rolled out an old carpet across the slats and threw the bales on top to make a creep area for calves. Said it stopped the straw falling in. One of the lads on the walk reckoned he could do the same with sheep. Last i heard he was still doing it. Power washed down the carpet every summer after cleaning out the pens.