Surf and Turf

blue5000

Some of you may know I bedded finishing bulls on peat last winter. I mucked it out at the end of the closed period, into what I thought was a heap, but it has since almost spread itself, downhill mostly.

This gave me an idea, I'm thinking of dumping the bulls bedding into a watery tank of slurry,agitating it and spreading it with the slurry tank. Has anyone any experience of this? A slatted shed with lying area/creep area bedded in turf and some of it goes down the slats? Any problems spreading it? I don't own a dungspreader and I'm locked up with TB.

Not exactly SURF but there is sh1t loads of TURF involved:o

Bullocks

blue5000 wrote: »

Some of you may know I bedded finishing bulls on peat last winter. I mucked it out at the end of the closed period, into what I thought was a heap, but it has since almost spread itself, downhill mostly.

This gave me an idea, I'm thinking of dumping the bulls bedding into a watery tank of slurry,agitating it and spreading it with the slurry tank. Has anyone any experience of this? A slatted shed with lying area/creep area bedded in turf and some of it goes down the slats? Any problems spreading it? I don't own a dungspreader and I'm locked up with TB.

Not exactly SURF but there is sh1t loads of TURF involved:o

Last year I had heifers in a one pen of slats out of a three bay shed that had about a foot of turf dust under them . It all fell through and there wasn't a bother agitating it . I was worried beforehand though that it might clog .

lakill Farm

a couple of clods of turf stuck in the tanker nozzle would really make your day

Bullocks

lakill Farm wrote: »

a couple of clods of turf stuck in the tanker nozzle would really make your day

Lucky enough it didn't happen and there was a fair few clods in this stuff but I suppose they were well broken before they got down between the slats

ellewood

Blue how much was turf per ton/m3 delivered
Ans how long did a load last under x amount of cattle??

Reggie.

Ya have to keep stirring it under the cattle aswell don't ya

blue5000

ellewood wrote: »

Blue how much was turf per ton/m3 delivered
Ans how long did a load last under x amount of cattle??

Twas either 270 or 370 (have to look it up) for a redrock silage trailer delivered. I only used about half of it. Started on dec 1st with 18 bulls in a shed approx 45' x 25'. Bulls on 12kg meal would be a lot drier though than cows or heifers on wet silage and only 1 or 2kg of meal. Started selling the bulls in January. Only advice I'd give is the shed needs to dry, with no rain blowing in or leaky gutters etc.

mancity1

What difference would the turf dust do to the soil?

blue5000

mancity1 wrote: »

What difference would the turf dust do to the soil?

I reckon it is like compost/ FYM, but I've never spread it before. Will probably use it on fields with high pH though.