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Adrian MI | We have the same barns. Scrape alley in front with the back being a bedded pack. Ideally an in ground manure pit is needed for the scrape alley and a dry stack pad for the solid manure. Currently we only have a cement pad behind each barn with a cement block wall around it. Except for a few months in the winter, the alleys will not stack at all. So we keep the alley manure hauled daily and pile the solid manure on the pad. We tryed stacking it all and it just piled up a couple feet, instead of 6-8 feet with just the bedded manure in a pile.
It will also depend on how crowded your barns are, ours are always full which makes the alleys a lot wetter. I think the best solution would be a dry stack pad for the solid manure and an in ground manure pit for the alleys which could also collect the water runoff from the solid manure pad, adding moisture to the alley manure if it was a little dry to be able to pump.
Jason
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Dairy Heifer barn manure storage
