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  • 02-11-2014 8:50am
    #1
    grange mac
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    Lads,
    Neighbour called over yest looking to put some of his SHEEP into a slatted house that I will have empty this winter. I will have a slatted house full of bulls/bullocks and know you can't have 2 different herds of cattle in same yard.
    Can you mix yard with Cattle and sheep from 2 herds in same yard?


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  • #2
    rangler1
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    grange mac wrote: »
    Lads,
    Neighbour called over yest looking to put some of his SHEEP into a slatted house that I will have empty this winter. I will have a slatted house full of bulls/bullocks and know you can't have 2 different herds of cattle in same yard.
    Can you mix yard with Cattle and sheep from 2 herds in same yard?

    There is some reason not to put cattle and sheep in the same airspace and don't give cattle the waste silage from a sheep shed.
    I think it's that BVD doesn't affect sheep but they can carry it.......maybe that's just BS


  • #3
    grange mac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭grange mac


    rangler1 wrote: »
    There is some reason not to put cattle and sheep in the same airspace and don't give cattle the waste silage from a sheep shed.
    I think it's that BVD doesn't affect sheep but they can carry it.......maybe that's just BS

    Have 2 slatted sheds separated by silage pit rangler just thought was something bout 2 herd numbers in same yard bug no no....but don't know about cattle and sheep. Both would be separate & kept apart....


  • #4
    rangler1
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    grange mac wrote: »
    Have 2 slatted sheds separated by silage pit rangler just thought was something bout 2 herd numbers in same yard bug no no....but don't know about cattle and sheep. Both would be separate & kept apart....

    Is he going to bed them on the slats or are they weanling/sheep slats
    I'd say the DVO would be the place to get an answer to your question


  • #5
    Bullocks
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    rangler1 wrote: »
    Is he going to bed them on the slats or are they weanling/sheep slats
    I'd say the DVO would be the place to get an answer to your question

    What do lads do with sheep on cattle slats ? If you put down straw does much find its way into the tank ?


  • #6
    orm0nd
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    as rangler says DVO is the place to enquire

    the only issues I was ever warned about was never give used fodder from sheep to cows
    & be careful with the lambing fluids apparently it can cause abortion in pregnant cows

    we have housed sheep in close proximity to cows for decades even in the bad years have housed in the same shed without any issues


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  • #7
    rangler1
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    orm0nd wrote: »
    as rangler says DVO is the place to enquire

    the only issues I was ever warned about was never give used fodder from sheep to cows
    & be careful with the lambing fluids apparently it can cause abortion in pregnant cows

    we have housed sheep in close proximity to cows for decades even in the bad years have housed in the same shed without any issues

    Just looked it up there, it's BVD alright, often housed them together here too., naturally enough the sheep would have to have the BVD virus


  • #8
    greysides
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    Now the odds of this are really small.....does anyone else remember a story reported in the IFJ, at least 20 years ago, about a farmer losing a lot of cattle to Malignant Catarrhal Fever after contact (I think) with sheep? I think a relief fund was set up.

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  • #9
    rangler1
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    Bullocks wrote: »
    What do lads do with sheep on cattle slats ? If you put down straw does much find its way into the tank ?

    Very little does get down, probably if you half filled with water and agitate every few years, have used a slatted shed for last ten years so someone's in for a treat, slats are 40 years old so might be past their sell by date for cattle, so some one can clean it out when they change the slats


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