Cubical sizes

RaggyDays

What size are cubicals, I need to know the length and width you allow for each one. Also How much of a step up is there onto the cubical and is the floor on the cubical sloped?

Would I have enough width in 4.5 meters for a cubical and feed passage ?

jj92

I put in a brisket board this year, I went by the measurements on this paper:

http://www.teagasc.ie/advisory/farm_management/buildings/facilities_fittings_services/cubicles/CowCubicles_final_versionMarch04.pdf

I think someone posted it up here before, I found it very helpful. Here's the measurements from it..


Width (centre to centre) +/- 0.025 1.15 meters
Total length (rows towards wall) 2.3 – 2.6 meters
Total length (rows head to head and single rows with no front wall)
2.21 – 2.45 meters
Brisket board/pillow from rear kerb (if fitted), +/- 0.05m 1.75 meters
Neck rail from rear kerb, +/- 0.05m (measured horizontally) 1.70 meters
Height of neck rail, +/- 0.05 1.15 meters
Cubicle bed slope +/- 1% 5%
Bedding height above the passageway floor 0.2 – 0.25 meters

Panch18

Are these indoor or outdoor cubicles now??!!

jersey101

Panch18 wrote: »

Are these indoor or outdoor cubicles now??!!

What does that have to do with the OPs question?

mahoney_j

Come on lads keep it country,enough to have one thread degenerate into a cat fight,tis christmass for feck sake!!

RaggyDays

Thanks for that jj92.
Just curious is there any suckler farmers putting in cubicles from new ?

Panch18

jersey101 wrote: »

What does that have to do with the OPs question?

I was joking, I thought that was obvious, but let this be clarification

moy83

RaggyDays wrote: »

Thanks for that jj92.
Just curious is there any suckler farmers putting in cubicles from new ?

There are a few around me , one lad put in cubicles with them fine mattress type mats on them and rubber on the slats aswell ! I dont see why the ould suckler cow needs that much minding when they arent under much pressure while they're inside , I certainly dont think they pay for themselves in performance either .
One of our sheds here has forty cubicles from when the father was milking and they are only a PITA for sucklers . Half of the cubicles are broken and bent now from rust and thick cows turning around in them ! He scrapes off the mats twice a day to keep things clean but I dont see the point in the added labour .
A nice dry lie for the calves is more important I think and somewhere to give them nuts away from the cows .
I dont know if it would work but if I was going to spend money on rubber it would be for a creep area for calves that could be swept out onto the slats every couple of days and dusted with sawdust/lime . Maybe have the floor sloped into the slats to let the juice drain away aswell