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Polytunnel for livestock

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Anyone know or use a polytunnel to rear calves in spring! Good cheap shelter and dry lie?

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

Surely it would not be strong enough?? Though there are stock versions I am sure........

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

we have one and I wouldn't use it for anything to do with livestock tbh, they can get very hot even on a mild day..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You can't rear calves in a poly tunnel

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Maybe they meant to type 'Carrots'

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Will overheat very very quickly mate

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By *ranthamThroatMan
over a year ago

Grantham.


"Anyone know or use a polytunnel to rear calves in spring! Good cheap shelter and dry lie?"

Only ever used to help with lambing season, so apart from birthing no I would not use for rearing but would for vegetables, sorry if not of help to you.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

apart from the animals overheating surely they would damage it very easily

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By *ranthamThroatMan
over a year ago

Grantham.


"Maybe they meant to type 'Carrots' "

Or are ( thinking of ) starting out and asked for serious help?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

If it was left open both ends? A 10x20 foot poly tunnel for each batch of 8 calves?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"If it was left open both ends? A 10x20 foot poly tunnel for each batch of 8 calves? "

it'll still get far too hot to rear calves!

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire


"If it was left open both ends? A 10x20 foot poly tunnel for each batch of 8 calves? "

a 10 x 20 will set you back about £450 plus, be better off building something more substantial in timber which will last longer..?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just a suggestion , start with mice as you plainly have no idea of livestock ,I'm sure DEFRA may have some info on there website .

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Just a suggestion , start with mice as you plainly have no idea of livestock ,I'm sure DEFRA may have some info on there website ."
check flexitunnel calf on YouTube my friend being a milkman does not make you an expert!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You understand the waste 8 calves will oroduce ? , you intend mucking out with a shovel ? or a tractor ?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"You understand the waste 8 calves will oroduce ? , you intend mucking out with a shovel ? or a tractor ?"
! They will have free access to half acre pasture also! Its shelter for them to wander in and out of . The manufacturers of flexitunnel say any waste from calves in the tunnel I'd quickly dried and absorbed into the parched covered soil and the sun light in the tunnel kills germs and bacteria that a closed shed would harbour? Is an interesting concept that i'm trying to get information on and asked here if anyone has some helpful advise? Rearing mice wouldn't be very profitable I don't think! Have you experience rearing mice?

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By *icked weaselCouple
over a year ago

Near Edinburgh..

We know a farm that keeps hundreds of Turkeys in big poly tunnels.. so it can be done.. not sure about cattle tho..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Amazing how many people are quick to put down anyone thinking differently , are you just using the tunnel for calving ? Or using pens to keep the calves from been trampled then as shelter from the elements ? There seems to be a rare breed comeback going on at the moment have you thought about that direction

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

my dad keeps livestock, they kick through plywood so be prepared to patch your polytunnel, and when the wind gets up get ready to warn your neighbours

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Forgive my negativity , 8 weaned calves will make short work of 1/2 an acre of pasture ...

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Forgive my negativity , 8 weaned calves will make short work of 1/2 an acre of pasture ..."
true I may need to consider giving more an acre or two? They will be getting hay silage and grain separately per batch! Its the housing i'm most concerned about! Poly tunnels per batch would be cheap but would they work

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Would need to pen out the inside I guess to keep them from damaging the poly! Not so cheap an idea then I guess

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford

There are livestock polytunnels made specifically for the purpose - they have mesh/slatted sides like a decent modern barn should.

Very odd place to ask this, mind.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

you know when something plays on your mind and you know you have commented purely on what seems like common sense - well ive since looked up polytunnels for livestock - specially vented and lighter poly stuff seems commonplace - and so i take back my remark about surely animals would overheat etc - they are quite rigidly framed and the sides reinforced etc - and i think i could adapt one as a home and move in ( not with the cattle i might add - i would like my own

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

They are a popular source of cover in new Zealand and they have similar if not more adverse weather than us! But i'm thinking it wouldn't actually end that cheap at all by the time I'd have secured it safely from them vandalising it

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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!

Wwhy not have a word with your local vets and Agricultural College? Surely they`d have basic figures on what is acceptable for cover and what area you`d need for the amount you`re planning on keeping?

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