Hayshed Bay Conversion Ideas

adne

Folks,

I have a three bay hay shed, one of the bays has a poured concrete wall at the back and on one gable.

I am tight on shed room for numbers this year and thinking of putting a sloped floor in this bar with a feedbarrier facing the middle bay and a Gate at the side..

Would this suffice for 8 weanlings for the winter, I am thinking of putting a basic concrete pit on the outside and scrape out the bay every 2/3 days....

Has any one any suggestions on a good cheap design with what i have been given.. I can utilise two bays if need be..

sh1tstirrer

If you are only putting 8 weanlings in the shed would you not be better using straw or woodchip bedding instead? I hate poured concrete walls in sheds other that silage walls as it is impossible to remove them if you want to convert the shed. The lazy mans wall I call them

adne

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

If you are only putting 8 weanlings in the shed would you not be better using straw or woodchip bedding instead? I hate poured concrete walls in sheds other that silage walls as it is impossible to remove them if you want to convert the shed. The lazy mans wall I call them

An alternative to scraping out is to have a straw bed, how often would this need to be cleaned, once a month??

sh1tstirrer

adne wrote: »

An alternative to scraping out is to have a straw bed, how often would this need to be cleaned, once a month??

Once a fortnight or less would be better as they would be rising over the feed passage
if the dung is allowed to build up too much. Of course you would want a concrete pad and run off tank to store the dung on. Back in the 80's they were designing sheds with sloped floors with a narrow slatted channel that would take the slurry to an open tank, I don't know how well they worked though.

Pauric Mc

Id bed ith the woodchips, used them here under beef bulls in a similar shed, great last and very little run off. dump in at least a foot of it and cattle love it, its dry and very warm