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Me

  • Joined Feb 2014
  • Wild West
Re: Pallet Lambing pens.
« Reply #15 on: February 27, 2015, 11:58:18 pm »
Quick question - are the pallets white and gold or blue and black?  ;) For some reason it's hard to tell in the photo?  :innocent:
Womble they are clearly blue and black (you as bad as Mrs Me)

Hevxxx99

  • Joined Sep 2012
Re: Pallet Lambing pens.
« Reply #16 on: February 28, 2015, 12:29:24 am »
It appears to be a very neat diagram of a square pen, demarked in red, with a smaller inner area of grey, supported by some form of red cross-members in the middle.

I think some labelling would help and an enlargement perhaps?  ;D

Penninehillbilly

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • West Yorks
Re: Pallet Lambing pens.
« Reply #17 on: February 28, 2015, 12:44:01 am »
Nothing there for me either, apart from a little box with a red cross in it ??? , perhaps they are the cross members??????. Still looking for the hinges  ;)
I wonder why it's there for some and not others?

EP90

  • Joined Jan 2013
  • Ireland
Re: Pallet Lambing pens.
« Reply #18 on: February 28, 2015, 10:55:43 am »
I'm assuming the pens are built in the style of Brigadoon?

kanisha

  • Joined Dec 2007
    • Spered Breizh Ouessants
    • Facebook
Re: Pallet Lambing pens.
« Reply #19 on: February 28, 2015, 11:54:23 am »
Never , have  I sooo wanted to see a pallet lambing pen ...... :fc:
Ravelry Group: - Ouessants & Company

NicandChic

  • Joined Oct 2013
Re: Pallet Lambing pens.
« Reply #20 on: February 28, 2015, 01:03:56 pm »
No, not unless your logged into the farming forum!

nutterly_uts

  • Joined Jul 2014
  • Jersey - for now :)
Re: Pallet Lambing pens.
« Reply #21 on: February 28, 2015, 03:08:30 pm »
I've specifically signed up just to look at them.. WOW.. Love them :) Appeals to my OCD side too  :excited:

trish.farm

  • Joined Feb 2014
  • hampshire
Re: Pallet Lambing pens.
« Reply #22 on: February 28, 2015, 06:55:35 pm »
Somebody please put this picture on here so we can all see it!!!!!  Cant stand the suspense!!!!  :surrender:

Kimbo

  • Joined Feb 2015
  • Anglezarke, Lancashire
Re: Pallet Lambing pens.
« Reply #23 on: February 28, 2015, 06:59:38 pm »
is it very sad that this is the most fun Ive had all week?  ::)
Is it time to retire yet?

Hevxxx99

  • Joined Sep 2012
Re: Pallet Lambing pens.
« Reply #24 on: February 28, 2015, 07:01:41 pm »
Does this help?

kanisha

  • Joined Dec 2007
    • Spered Breizh Ouessants
    • Facebook
Re: Pallet Lambing pens.
« Reply #25 on: February 28, 2015, 07:53:16 pm »
they are indeed very lovely  :thumbsup:     :)
Ravelry Group: - Ouessants & Company

snowyriver

  • Joined Dec 2012
  • Montgomeryshire
Re: Pallet Lambing pens.
« Reply #26 on: February 28, 2015, 08:13:46 pm »
I've specifically signed up just to look at them.. WOW.. Love them :) Appeals to my OCD side too  :excited:

Mine also seems to work now I've registered with the farming forum, very good set up Castle Farm

trish.farm

  • Joined Feb 2014
  • hampshire
Re: Pallet Lambing pens.
« Reply #27 on: February 28, 2015, 09:04:08 pm »
Beautiful!!!!  puts my lambing shed to shame!!!!  :(

Penninehillbilly

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • West Yorks
Re: Pallet Lambing pens.
« Reply #28 on: February 28, 2015, 11:34:13 pm »
WOW !!!
Next question, where did you get all those lovely pallets??
not a bit like my oddball sized offerings  :)
 
like the hay rack as well
« Last Edit: February 28, 2015, 11:37:07 pm by penninehillbilly »

Buffy the eggs layer

  • Joined Jun 2010
Re: Pallet Lambing pens.
« Reply #29 on: March 01, 2015, 07:19:24 am »
I got some very reasonably priced hurdles this byear from a nice man on ebay called Davey who makes his own. They cost about £1.10 a foot and he can make standard or bespoke sizes.


They can be delivered anywhere and I think delivery is about £30 a palet full. I have split the barn into 3 sections and thebewes move up to a new section and clean bedding as they get closer to lambing. this also moves them closer to the cctv camera and nearer to the bonding pens in the stables.


The hurdles are supported with blocks on the walls and secured with spring bolts that go into holes in the concrete floor. I have attached hinges to hurdles to form gates allowing me to access each section and used large screw in eyes along with bamboo rods to link hurdles together forming dividers and smaller pens. All the hurdles are either removable or fold back against the wall so I can create space easily for lambie play or cleaning down. I also got 6 second hand rubber stable mats for the lambing area which are easy to remove and clean down between lambings.


I found pallets very heavy to lift and difficult to see through on the lambing camera but if anyone wants some bailer band I have lots!


 

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