What's in your livestock shed WHATS IN YOUR LIVESTOCK SHEDWhat’s in Your Livestock Shed? visits a nutrition barnInspired by dairy setups in Denmark, the design of the nutrition barn at the Centre for Dairy Science Innovation at the University of Nottingham has resulted in a cool, calm… WHATS IN YOUR LIVESTOCK SHEDWhat’s in Your Livestock Shed? visits an £11m research unitA multimillion-pound pig research unit has been designed to test the commercial value of new technology. The £11m unit was the brainchild of Leeds University professor Helen Miller. Its aim… WHATS IN YOUR LIVESTOCK SHEDWIYLS visits a low-effort, high-welfare beef shedBuildings on the Morris family’s farm at Lower Drostre, near Brecon, were outdated and poorly positioned. In their place the family has put up a 150-bed shed that allows bedding,… WHATS IN YOUR LIVESTOCK SHEDWIYLS visits a £225,000 calf shed modelled on broiler designPneumonia cases are now few and far between and calf growth rates are exceeding 1kg a day since a climate-controlled calf unit, similar to a broiler house, was erected at… HOUSING AND HANDLINGWIYLS vists a £60,000 purpose-built calf shedInvolving a team of professionals including vets and building experts in the design of a new calf shed has helped a Welsh dairy farm create fit-for-purpose housing for rearing its… WHATS IN YOUR LIVESTOCK SHEDWIYLS: New beef build helps lift finisher growth to 2kg/dayA beef fattening building designed to aid natural ventilation is accelerating the finishing period at a Carmarthenshire livestock farm. Beef production at Rest Farm near Llanboidy is focused on maximising… WHATS IN YOUR LIVESTOCK SHEDWIYLS: Calf polytunnels enable switch to block-calvingA Carmarthenshire dairy farm converting to autumn block-calving from a level milk supply profile has relieved pressure on calf-rearing facilities with low-cost housing. Roger and Alison Evans and their sons,… WHATS IN YOUR LIVESTOCK SHEDWIYLS goes inside Duchy College’s £3.6m dairy unitImproved cow comfort and a better feeding regime have boosted milk yields by 2 litres a cow a day at Duchy College, Cornwall. The "Future Farm" research facility, which houses… WHATS IN YOUR LIVESTOCK SHEDWIYLS visits a £500,000 beef finishing shedDaily liveweight gains (DLWG) in beef cattle bred from a Pembrokeshire farm’s own dairy herd have improved since the business invested in a new fattening building. The Jenkins family spent… WHATS IN YOUR LIVESTOCK SHEDWIYLS visits the only off-grid milking robot in the UKA Welsh farm is milking cows in a robot powered by a standalone renewable energy system after it was forced to relocate to a remote site when its rented dairy… WHATS IN YOUR LIVESTOCK SHEDWIYLS visits a dairy to pig conversion in CarmarthenshireConverting redundant dairy farm buildings into pig accommodation has taken pig production from a hobby for new entrant Luke Starkey to farming the second-largest farrow-to-finish system in Wales. Until four… WHATS IN YOUR LIVESTOCK SHEDWIYLS visits a £300,000 self-build cubicle shedAn automatic ventilation system capable of refreshing air in the entire building in just 90 seconds is one of the factors that has enabled a Welsh dairy farm to slash… More articles
