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Cullom, Illinois | Bunk space is your limiting factor. Anything under a foot per head and you will have troubles. Unless your feeding yearlings on full feed the whole time. And in your bed pack barn you’ll need 40 sq ft per head minimum space.
With a foot of bunk on just one side of the pen, your barn would need to be 300’ long and 40’ wide.
That won’t fit your area. So let’s go bunk on both sides. Now your barn would be 150’ long and 80’ wide. The challenge here is you still need a way to get cattle and manure equipment in and out of the pens. Some build metal bunks that swing like gates. Others make the barn a little longer to compensate for the gates using up bunk space.
Bunk space is king, especially in confinement barns.
Something to consider is you only need 25 sq ft per head in a slat barn. So your barn is roughly half the size of a bedded barn. You will have added cost of the pit and slats. But remember that when comparing prices.
Edited by roo 1/27/2024 07:13
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Looking at building a bed pack cattle building
