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building a sheep shed with the grant

roosky · 2016-02-20 02:48:58

Hi all, Im in the early stages of planning a shed for sheep. I want your opinions and ideas on things to do and pitt falls to avoid. My plan is a four bay double with plastic slats and a wide feed passage for lambing pens Also planning on deep tanks 8 ft to allow the possibility of housing cattle Anyone putting up a sheep…

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#62 29-04-2016 07:59PM

Jack180570

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Green farmer wrote: »

I've a old open plan shed. No internal walls. Steel frame structure. Put in a concrete floor. Then use ordinary 5ft penning gates to pen them whatever way takes my fancy. after lambing is finished all dismantled and penning used outside. Can also make a contral feed passage whenever the mood takes me. Also have a few of these 5ft gates ( in pic ) that go well with feed passage option. At moment feeding silage in ring feeders. Just open pens and drop bale.

Thanks Green farmer....
I have never used the penning gates...
Its a 70 x 78ft shed and im thinking of using walk tru meal feeders to divide the 3/4/5 pens on each side of the central passage. I was then thinking of using taller field gates (the sheep ones with the extra bars on them) for the front of the pens and making a few rectangular silage feeders that I can put the bales into (the ones that keep the bales off the ground) and if the bed got too high I would lift them up every so often...

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