Building a Sheep Shed

Farmer_3650

I am thinking about building a shed in the next few months for housing ewes. The size I have in mind is a 45 x 30 or mabye a 60x30. I see people regularly putting ads up on donedeal with shed kits for sale at reasonable prices.
What I am wondering is am I better get a shed made up locally or buy one of these kits? What sort of money would I be talking to build a shed with either option?
I will erect the shed myself and do all block work/ concreting myself aswell. Thanks

Tileman

You hear good and bad about them same as all suppliers. Neighbour got a lovely one from up in Fermanagh. Lovely job. He got some one local to put it up.

How many ewes are you trying to keep in it for the winter.

Farmer_3650

Tileman wrote: »

You hear good and bad about them same as all suppliers. Neighbour got a lovely one from up in Fermanagh. Lovely job. He got some one local to put it up.

How many ewes are you trying to keep in it for the winter.

There is someone in Fermanagh regularly putting ads on donedeal alright..sheds seem good value. I’d be housing 100/120 ewes.

sam ford

Would you not consider blocking a shed using cavity block's, if you had foundation down a team of block layers would have it up in two or three days, just an idea,

Farmer_3650

sam ford wrote: »

Would you not consider blocking a shed using cavity block's, if you had foundation down a team of block layers would have it up in two or three days, just an idea,

An idea that hadn’t came to mind. Would it work out much cheaper I wonder? as if I was to go with a steel frame shed, I would be doing all the blockwork and concreting myself.

Siamsa Sessions

Have you seen the polytunnel options mentioned on this thread, with pictures too: https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2058034491/2/#post111929202

wrangler

Jjameson wrote: »

Poly tunnels are a complete waste of money. Build a shed and it’s a versatile asset. Straw, hay, machinery cattle sheep. The local shed man here makes and erects shed and after pricing both ways To be honest you’d be at nothing messing yourself. Go concrete base first yourself and get the walls shuttered and poured. Whoever follows you will be thankful.

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/back-in-focus-slatted-housing-for-80-head-of-sheep-in-co-mayo/
I can't agree, my tunnel is treble the size of this shed for €6000 more, I know which I'd rather have and it'll suit Straw, hay, machinery cattle sheep

Farmer_3650

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

Have you seen the polytunnel options mentioned on this thread, with pictures too: https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2058034491/2/#post111929202

Another option that I haven't really looked at. I always thought that a tunnel would look out of place in my yard but having seen that article, I think it would fit in quite well. The price of that is tempting too. Thanks for directing me to that article:)

wrangler

Jjameson wrote: »

But you effectively have nothing. The half rings? Plastic will be in ribbons and what’s left? That shed is extreme and wasteful. There’s a lot better value to be had. But even in it A couple of ring feeder and let the ewes out to yard to eat meal and the huge passageway would increase sheep by at least a third.

To properly manage sheep in a shed, a third of it needs to be feeding passages or else it's only messing.
Even with messing, a tunnel that size set up as you say with a ring feeder wouldn't even set you back five grand,
It's unreal the farmers that are feeding sheep out doors this year in muck because ''they can't afford a shed''

Farmer_3650

wrangler wrote: »

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/back-in-focus-slatted-housing-for-80-head-of-sheep-in-co-mayo/
I can't agree, my tunnel is treble the size of this shed for €6000 more, I know which I'd rather have and it'll suit Straw, hay, machinery cattle sheep

I have to say a tunnel is very tempting looking at the figures. How long have you had your tunnel, and had you any problems so far with it?
A couple of things that would turn me against a tunnel are;
What sort of condition they would be in after 25-30 years? I imagine maintainance costs would be alot higher than with a shed.
Also, I am on an exposed enough site so I would also be very worried a storm would make bits of a tunnel.
At least with a shed, I have the option of converting it back for cattle if I ever expanded the herd.

wrangler

Farmer_3650 wrote: »

I have to say a tunnel is very tempting looking at the figures. How long have you had your tunnel, and had you any problems so far with it?
A couple of things that would turn me against a tunnel are;
What sort of condition they would be in after 25-30 years? I imagine maintainance costs would be alot higher than with a shed.
Also, I am on an exposed enough site so I would also be very worried a storm would make bits of a tunnel.
At least with a shed, I have the option of converting it back for cattle if I ever expanded the herd.

This is its eighth season, we've had lots of storms here and it's an exposed site and we're only 10 miles from where the ploughing site was blew asunder two years ago.
I was told it'd have to be recovered after ten years, cost about 1500, I don't see any sign of that happening yet though, frame is aluminium and galvanise so will last a long long time,
That tunnel would be the dearest in the range, the first Colm Warren tunnel I saw was in wicklow, two 200 ft by 36ftft tunnels erected in a field, rings just going in to the ground , both had just the feeding passages concreted, the sheep was bedded on the clay, that had to be cheap sheep housing.

An earlier Pic by Buford, housing for sheep works for man and sheep
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=112133462

wrangler

Farmer_3650 wrote: »

I have to say a tunnel is very tempting looking at the figures. How long have you had your tunnel, and had you any problems so far with it?
A couple of things that would turn me against a tunnel are;
What sort of condition they would be in after 25-30 years? I imagine maintainance costs would be alot higher than with a shed.
Also, I am on an exposed enough site so I would also be very worried a storm would make bits of a tunnel.
At least with a shed, I have the option of converting it back for cattle if I ever expanded the herd.

If you're ever on the M6, you can have a look, we're only a kilometre from Junction 4