We have an old dairy barn, concrete floor. We gutted it & built 10 x 12 pens, with a 7' alleyway down the middle. We put hydrate lime down on the concrete everytime we clean it out prior to calving (and many times in-between). We bed with fine wood chips, and bedding is kept clean at all times like at a show. We use the pens for calving. Then it is used for our showstring. We drilled holes in the concrete block walls and inserted eye ring bolts every 3' so we can cross tie our showstring. We also have our work chute at one end of the barn in the alley way. Jeanne Simme Valley in NY <A HREF="http://www.SimmeValley.com" TARGET="_blank">http://www.SimmeValley.com</A>
> I was wanting to convert an old
> hog barn with a concrete floor to
> a cattle show barn, it has a
> drainage ditch at the back of each
> pen . If I bed the pens with
> shavings could this be siutable
> for a show barn. Its about 28'
> wide and about 50' long. The barn
> is built on a slab , no slats or
> pits .I kinda think it could be
> used. the concrete floor concerns
> me. I would easliy have a built in
> wash pit already. I would have to
> remove the old penning that is in
> there now , it was for sows.
> Please give me some opinions.what
> size pen does a individual heifer
> or young bull need?
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