slatting over an outside slurry lagoon

learnabout

im sure this was asked before but
is it possible to slat over a concrete slurry lagoon to make extra winter space leave it open and just as a feeding area ? pen it off and feed round bales to cattle on it while giving them access to a cubicle house to wander in and out of ! round feeders on slats ?slurry pit walls are about 5" high its im guessing 70 x70 foot ! il measure this tomorrow
id add a picture to help explain but i dont know how just yet

learnabout

its that i am caught for room wintering cattle ! maybe i should just sell them and keep what i can stock at ease and forget about investing in farming

smokey-fitz

learnabout wrote: »

im sure this was asked before but
is it possible to slat over a concrete slurry lagoon to make extra winter space leave it open and just as a feeding area ? pen it off and feed round bales to cattle on it while giving them access to a cubicle house to wander in and out of ! round feeders on slats ?slurry pit walls are about 5" high its im guessing 70 x70 foot ! il measure this tomorrow
id add a picture to help explain but i dont know how just yet

That sounds costly. Do you have much concrete around the lagoon? If you did you could pen a part of it off and scrape every day or two. Or put down a concrete slab for the purpose. Stick up a few barriers or just feed rings if you want in on the cheap.

learnabout

smokey-fitz wrote: »

That sounds costly. Do you have much concrete around the lagoon? If you did you could pen a part of it off and scrape every day or two. Or put down a concrete slab for the purpose. Stick up a few barriers or just feed rings if you want in on the cheap.

Its an open concrete pit with four mass concrete walls around it about 5 foot deep! to store the slurry from the yard! Could this be slatted and barriers around the sides ! As a feeding place

learnabout

smokey-fitz wrote: »

That sounds costly. Do you have much concrete around the lagoon? If you did you could pen a part of it off and scrape every day or two. Or put down a concrete slab for the purpose. Stick up a few barriers or just feed rings if you want in on the cheap.

would it be that costly? The slats and supports and a few barriers

smokey-fitz

learnabout wrote: »

would it be that costly? The slats and supports and a few barriers

Im sure it can be done, best way to find out is to get a quote. Its hard to know if the floor of the lagoon would be reinforced enough to support the weight of the supports and slats and cattle. So in theory the floor might have to be taken up for a better foundation to be layed. Im no expert, im just giving my opinion, could easily add up to 5 to 10k imo

Farmer Pudsey

Would depend to what spec old walls were put in to. I be slow enough doing it. You then have to put in internal walls in lagoon to take slats. As your tank is only 5' deep you would either have to use a spine wall and allow slurry to flow around or pillar and beam with tractor bearing slats for passageway.

At a guess a shed with cubicles and using a tractor to scrape into( you get away with twice a week unless you were milking cows of it) it would be cheaper.

Injuryprone

I've seen it done. But unless you roof it it's unlikely to satisfy the slurry storage equation for the additional stock you'd be able to put on it

9935452

learnabout wrote: »

im sure this was asked before but
is it possible to slat over a concrete slurry lagoon to make extra winter space leave it open and just as a feeding area ? pen it off and feed round bales to cattle on it while giving them access to a cubicle house to wander in and out of ! round feeders on slats ?slurry pit walls are about 5" high its im guessing 70 x70 foot ! il measure this tomorrow
id add a picture to help explain but i dont know how just yet

Lads we work for did something similar years ago.
They had an old slurry pit with a uneven floor in and around 5 foot depth.
They managed to put internal walls , feeding passage and slats on eithre side. Its done at least over 30 years and must have cost a lot, (no idea of price paid)
The feeding passage is solid but has channels connecting the two sides of the tank.
In all honestly its a balls of a tank , its nearly impossible to agitate,, only 5 foot deep with an uneven floor, if its only half full **** sticks to the floor at the high spots, you keep running out of water on the opposite side as the two sides are connected.

My advise would be to put a small cubicle house beside the tank and scrape into in or a slatted house next to it and join the tanks or pump from one to the other

learnabout

9935452 wrote: »

Lads we work for did something similar years ago.
They had an old slurry pit with a uneven floor in and around 5 foot depth.
They managed to put internal walls , feeding passage and slats on eithre side. Its done at least over 30 years and must have cost a lot, (no idea of price paid)
The feeding passage is solid but has channels connecting the two sides of the tank.
In all honestly its a balls of a tank , its nearly impossible to agitate,, only 5 foot deep with an uneven floor, if its only half full **** sticks to the floor at the high spots, you keep running out of water on the opposite side as the two sides are connected.

My advise would be to put a small cubicle house beside the tank and scrape into in or a slatted house next to it and join the tanks or pump from one to the other

yes that's very good advise when all things are added up
I think a concrete yard and a few cubicles and Lean to is the way for me! Some where to winter 30 or so yearlings

Dickie10

I have a similar idea. I have big slurry tank for scraping into. it is not dug into graound but is a at ground level with concrete floor, it has wide mass concrete walls around it they are 5.5 meters high. I HAD AN IDEA TO MAKE A SHED OUT OF SOME OF IT. I have floor and walls in. I just want straw beded, surrounded by tillage land so straw no problem to bed with. might be perfect for calf rearing calving or lambing ewes. should I roof it all? and put up a place to dump dung somewhere else, I woukd only need something simple. the area is about 20 ft wide x 45 foot long

Sam Kade

Dickie10 wrote: »

I have a similar idea. I have big slurry tank for scraping into. it is not dug into graound but is a at ground level with concrete floor, it has wide mass concrete walls around it they are 5.5 meters high. I HAD AN IDEA TO MAKE A SHED OUT OF SOME OF IT. I have floor and walls in. I just want straw beded, surrounded by tillage land so straw no problem to bed with. might be perfect for calf rearing calving or lambing ewes. should I roof it all? and put up a place to dump dung somewhere else, I woukd only need something simple. the area is about 20 ft wide x 45 foot long

Surely you mean 5.5 feet?

Dickie10

sorry feet yes in or around think might be actually 5 ft 7