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<blockquote data-quote="Peace" data-source="post: 1663722" data-attributes="member: 41443"><p>You don't want to put the cows in with the pigs, nothing good can happen and plenty of bad can and probably will. After you move the cows out of the corral and onto pasture, I would put the pigs in the corral. Believe it or not, they'll turn that corral, which will probably be a muddy, crappy mess of manure into what would I would call very rich dirt, along the lines of a mulch dirt.</p><p></p><p>Around 1980 we kept our replacement heifers at a barn about 1/2 mile from our dairy barn. We kept about 60 or so in an area about 30 x 60 with a feed bunk around the outside. It was in Wisconsin, so in the winter we'd bed and and by the time spring rolled around and the cattle could go back outside onto pasture, that straw pack (way more crap than straw) would probably be about 18" deep. The first year we did this, it was the most horrible job to fork that out into a manure wagon. The next year I had about 12 feeder pigs and my dad told me to split the barn in half, giving half of the area to the pigs and the other half to the heifers. It took the pigs about 5 months to turn that into a fantastic mulch. They just tore it up with their snouts and did their thing. Of course we still fed them a usual diet of feed, but they still tore up that straw pack like it owed them money.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peace, post: 1663722, member: 41443"] You don't want to put the cows in with the pigs, nothing good can happen and plenty of bad can and probably will. After you move the cows out of the corral and onto pasture, I would put the pigs in the corral. Believe it or not, they'll turn that corral, which will probably be a muddy, crappy mess of manure into what would I would call very rich dirt, along the lines of a mulch dirt. Around 1980 we kept our replacement heifers at a barn about 1/2 mile from our dairy barn. We kept about 60 or so in an area about 30 x 60 with a feed bunk around the outside. It was in Wisconsin, so in the winter we'd bed and and by the time spring rolled around and the cattle could go back outside onto pasture, that straw pack (way more crap than straw) would probably be about 18" deep. The first year we did this, it was the most horrible job to fork that out into a manure wagon. The next year I had about 12 feeder pigs and my dad told me to split the barn in half, giving half of the area to the pigs and the other half to the heifers. It took the pigs about 5 months to turn that into a fantastic mulch. They just tore it up with their snouts and did their thing. Of course we still fed them a usual diet of feed, but they still tore up that straw pack like it owed them money. [/QUOTE]
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