Grooved vs Rough finish slats

Deepsouthwest

Putting in a tank here that will double as a collecting yard and feeding passage in the winter. Slat manufacturer will give me both grooved or rough brush finish at the same price, but said he'd be slightly concerned that cattle may get lame from spending a lot of time on grooved slats in the winter. Anyone have any experience of this? Only ever had ordinary slats here

Deepsouthwest

Deepsouthwest wrote: »

Putting in a tank here that will double as a collecting yard and feeding passage in the winter. Slat manufacturer will give me both grooved or rough brush finish at the same price, but said he'd be slightly concerned that cattle may get lame from spending a lot of time on grooved slats in the winter. Anyone have any experience of this? Only ever had ordinary slats here

I'll take that as a no so!

darragh_haven

Deepsouthwest wrote: »

I'll take that as a no so!

We had groves slats in the collection yards for well over 10 years. Didn't cause any extra lameness from when they weren't groved.

My dad said he'd go with the groved option if given the choice

Cow Porter

Didn't see this until now and didn't know you could get them as such. Where are you buying?

How rough is rough? How close are grooves, like if spaced close together surley not an issue

visatorro

have rough slats in cubicle shed. prefer these here as these are not washed down or scraped daily. they be as rough as a concrete plaster finish iykwim

frazzledhome

Grooved all the way. We even got all our slatts grooved. All passages grooved.

Please don't consider anything other than grooved,

Deepsouthwest

Ordered and went for all grooved, more walls being poured today, slats should be going on end of nxt wk. Must post a few pics someday