Slatted Sheep Shed

Sheep housing is just for your own comfort, it's unlikely that a sheep enterprise would justify its cost.

Looking for advice on slatted sheep housing. How deep are tanks usually? What thickness walls required and what span are the plastic slats? Anything you would do or wouldn’t do if building again? Thanks for any insights.

Have 14 bays of slats here. Mixture of plastic and timber. Plastic slats are tanks are 15ft wide iirc and the timber one are 17ft. Most tanks have a wall running up the middle to support the slat runners. Tanks are 4ft deep with a sump for agitation. Walls are 11 inches thick on the poured tanks. One tank has pillers and concrete lentils carrying the runners.

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Thanks for this. Do you think it is essential to have a central spine wall to support the slats?
What size are your pens? I presume you have 6 or 12 inches of Concrete toe space at the front and back of pens?

Folks with plastic slats. Is your feeding passage raised or at same level as the slats?

Have timber slats here, 4 foot tank dug into rock, concrete floor ,cavity block wall. Sheep exceptionally clean.

Neighbours with both plastic and wooden slats, plastic not as clean but adequate. One man has plastic in a cattle slatted shed, tanks 8' deep.

I never mixed it, just scooped it out and spread with side slinger, like glue.

Some of the neighbours mix it with pig slurry.

Is it possible to get a solid concrete slat so I could use half a shed fir storage but have tank underneath so I can import pig slurry?.Looking at putting up an extension to existing shed so I can finish stores etc