Bedding Question

What about them do you not like?
Cattle always digging them out then getting stuck under the cubicle
When the ol man put them in 30 year ago we should have spent the bit extra then for a load of concrete
Near enough every year since we been topping them up before housing only for the beasts to dig it out in about 3 weeks

Newton rigg cubicles are shyte too
All the metal legs are in the shitty end of the bed so rust away
 
Im on cubicles with rubber mats in 1 shed of 80 and another shed of 40 is cubicles and earth beds
The earth beds are, to be blunt, fucking useless
Think I've found 20 super comfort cubicles and pipes so this summer will rip out 1 side ,concrete the beds and fit the super comforts
Half toying with the idea to use a roll of old astroturf upside down on the concrete as a form of mat🤷‍♂️
Better off with an old conveyor belt than astroturf.
Thought sawdust wouldn t be ideal to be spreading on grass ground. ? Brother uses hydrated lime on cubicles but dont know how it affects slurry
Sawdust isn’t ideal but I let it rot for a couple of years.
 
Reading up on straw lime and water mix bedding. The figures on it seem too good to be true. 1:4:1 straw, powdered field lime and water respectively.
Deep bedded system 8-10 inches, once the bed is in place they reckon only 1-2kgs of mix is needed per cubicle per day.
Straw at 15c/kg, field lime 2.5c/kg plus water and mixing say at 10c/kg, 35c for 6kgs so say 7-14c per cow per day to bed in a deep bed.

Anyone any experience of this system?
 
Cattle always digging them out then getting stuck under the cubicle
When the ol man put them in 30 year ago we should have spent the bit extra then for a load of concrete
Near enough every year since we been topping them up before housing only for the beasts to dig it out in about 3 weeks

Newton rigg cubicles are shyte too
All the metal legs are in the shitty end of the bed so rust away
Since then.....IMG-20221004-WA0003.jpegIMG-20221004-WA0001.jpeg
 
Reading up on straw lime and water mix bedding. The figures on it seem too good to be true. 1:4:1 straw, powdered field lime and water respectively.
Deep bedded system 8-10 inches, once the bed is in place they reckon only 1-2kgs of mix is needed per cubicle per day.
Straw at 15c/kg, field lime 2.5c/kg plus water and mixing say at 10c/kg, 35c for 6kgs so say 7-14c per cow per day to bed in a deep bed.

Anyone any experience of this system?
So far since sorting all the beds out here I've gone from using a 4ft round straw every 5 days to about 20 days
Granted I'm a bit down on numbers at the moment but hope to sort that out quietly
 
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