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Dry Shed...

  • 22-05-2016 2:24pm
    #1
    Belongamick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭


    We usually buy in 20 or so, year old weanlings in March/April and sell in Nov/Dec of same year. Have been thinking recently of building a dry shed and improving the yard to buy in Jan/Feb and feed stock in yard and shed until weather improves and again having them in the dry shed for the last month. Idea is to buy a bit earlier when a little cheaper at the front of the year and to save the ground from poaching in winter time. Always have a few round bales, would need bedding. What are peoples experience of dry sheds today?
    Too expensive - hard to justify the cost of a slatted shed.


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  • #2
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,891 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    Belongamick wrote: »
    We usually buy in 20 or so, year old weanlings in March/April and sell in Nov/Dec of same year. Have been thinking recently of building a dry shed and improving the yard to buy in Jan/Feb and feed stock in yard and shed until weather improves and again having them in the dry shed for the last month. Idea is to buy a bit earlier when a little cheaper at the front of the year and to save the ground from poaching in winter time. Always have a few round bales, would need bedding. What are peoples experience of dry sheds today?
    Too expensive - hard to justify the cost of a slatted shed.

    Nothing wrong with a dry shed I think .
    The price of straw and having to keep the dungpit dry and catch the runoff is what might make it dear though .
    I don't know how much profit is in keeping them a month later for selling unless you wintered them until the following spring when the market picks up and even then I don't think there is huge profit in wintering either - that's really the trouble !
    Would there be more profit in filling them with nuts at grass to get a bit extra weight on them before selling at the normal time


  • #3
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,756 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    You should be ok mucking that straight out to a field at the end of the closed period. If you have a silage slab with an effluent tank, it can be used if you are stuck for space. Doing it here with bulls on a lot of meal, only problem is dung building up at the feed barrier, but I have a fairly steep fall on the floor towards the barrier.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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