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How I Built My Sheep Barn
Ulf Kintzel
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And what I would do differently with 20/20 hindsight When my family and I moved to the Finger Lakes area in Western New York about 18 years ago, I had opted for a piece of land without any buildings. Besides a house, a new barn needed to be built. Such structure was needed for…
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Consider Deep Pack Barns for Cow Comfort and Manure Management
Fay Benson
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Small dairy farm operators may soon be confronted by the prohibition of winter spreading of manure. Any farmer looking to update their barns should consider a design that can accommodate a deep bedded pack (DBP) system. A DBP system incorporates animal feeding and manure storage into one open barn, and can be especially helpful to…
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How to Get Started with Sheep
Ulf Kintzel
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Let’s assume you have a parcel of land. You would like to get started but you don’t know how. Here is an outline. Pasture. If your parcel of land is a hayfield or has existing vegetation but there are lots of weeds, work with it. Don’t plow it up unless you have some extra money…
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