Posted by samn40 on February 05, 2014 at 13:26:58 from (31.51.72.66):
Following on from FarmerJohns post (re the new milking barn) Do many of you bed the freestall cubicles with sand? Do you have any problems with it? We did try it on our farm for a few years, got the sand dredged from the lough/lake so it was real dead, not sharp like building sand....It worked great at first kept the cows real clean but then we found we had a high instance of e-coli mastitis....The sand was irritating the cows teats and giving the trouble. Then we had a big problem with the manure/slurry, it just would not mix and stay in suspense in the slurry.....so we got in the pit with the shovel and filled it into spreaders, it eat the bearings outta everything. Sawdust-shavings mixed provided a good stopgap for a year or two but we were afraid of the ground getting too acidic so we finally fitted box mattresses...over 20 years ago and still good! I just hope you guys have had more luck or have done something different and I do hope John's brother doesn't have these problems.....Maybe fore-warned is fore-armed???........Sam
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