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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 889599" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>Literally every dairy in western Washington is totally on concrete 100% of the time all winter. Those cattle seem to hold up just fine. My feeders are all on concrete so if they are eating hay they are standing on concrete. The bedding area of the barn has a dirt floor that I cover with sawdust, shavings, straw, etc (whatever is cheap and available). I just add to the bedding pile weekly all winter. By spring it is a couple feet deep of packed tight shavings and manure. It actually composts some what and in doing that heats up, giving the cows a warm place to lay. Once the cows go to pasture I clean it out and spread it on a hay field. I have gutters on the eaves of the barn to direct all water possible away from the barn.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 889599, member: 498"] Literally every dairy in western Washington is totally on concrete 100% of the time all winter. Those cattle seem to hold up just fine. My feeders are all on concrete so if they are eating hay they are standing on concrete. The bedding area of the barn has a dirt floor that I cover with sawdust, shavings, straw, etc (whatever is cheap and available). I just add to the bedding pile weekly all winter. By spring it is a couple feet deep of packed tight shavings and manure. It actually composts some what and in doing that heats up, giving the cows a warm place to lay. Once the cows go to pasture I clean it out and spread it on a hay field. I have gutters on the eaves of the barn to direct all water possible away from the barn. [/QUOTE]
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