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Housing cattle

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  • #32
    Mad4simmental
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    We always remove old bed every few days. It keeps the cattle dry and the straw lasts longer.


  • #33
    Robson99
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    Farmer Pudsey wrote: »
    Not if they are well fed. Always struggled to keep straw under cattle even on goodish silage not to mind if feeding a bit of meal with it. In the long run slats are cheapest method of housing cattle

    As I said its very debatable. There is a big outlay in building a slatted shed and as another poster said a straw bed shed can be utilised in other farming systems if the farmer decides to change.
    The quality of the straw being used is as big a factor as the diet of the cattle in the lasting of the bed under them.
    Everyone will have there own preference.


  • #34
    Greengrass1
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    Sami23 wrote: »
    Totally disagree with this statement as there's nothing worse than looking at animals lying in 'Sh**e" in straw bed. Plus you have to factor in cost of straw and finally your going to need another shed to store the straw in.

    I will say one good thing would be the dung you would have for the land but again your gonna need a dungsted to store it and also pay to get it spread so not too cheap of an option all things considered.

    IMO go for slatted shed with mats for cow comfort.
    Bull****e. Every animal here on straw. In the lap of luxury. I'm using a bale per 30 cows every day.
    Dry cow shed the dung is up 4 ft at back.
    Yeah can wrap the straw one layer will do.
    I worked it out before it'd take me 10 yrs to get pay back if I put in cubicles for the cost of straw.

    Only thing I would say is bulling cows is not ideal on straw. If I had cubicles for my winter milkers I'd have no problem leaving everything else on straw.

    If dairy cows can hack it in straw so can sucklers .

    Provided you can get cheap straw


  • #35
    Jimlh86
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    J DEERE wrote: »
    OP any chance you could post a rough drawing of your farmyard layout as it is now?

    I'll try put up a drawing later on, it's pretty basic on the main block of land where any building would take place! I note someone on here mentioned teagasc prices, surely things can be done cheaper than these figures? They seem pretty high across the board ?


  • #36
    grazeaway
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    Jimlh86 wrote: »
    I'll try put up a drawing later on, it's pretty basic on the main block of land where any building would take place! I note someone on here mentioned teagasc prices, surely things can be done cheaper than these figures? They seem pretty high across the board ?

    If your going for a grant you need to price it along the DOA pricing as that is what the value of the grant on. If you can built it to dept spec for lower then thier costing the value of the grant will be on the lower price. If that is the case you can rise your costing by adding in your own labour time.


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