Livestock Housing Calculations

Worksheet for calculation of Standard Labour unit requirements

enter number:	Enterprise	Livestock Units		hours/yr	enter acres:	Enterprise	hours/yr
Standard per unit	calculated total	Standard per acre	calculated total
70	Dairy Cows	1	0	39	-	9.5	Cereals	8.1	76.9
Beef Cows	0.75	0	12	-		Potatoes
330	Other cattle	0.75	52.5	9	630.0		early	48.6	-
calves	0.34	0	4	-		maincrop	36.4	-
580	Sheep		0				Vining peas	10.1	-
ewes & lambs - lowland	0.11	36.3	5.2	1,716.0		Oilseeds	5.1	-
	ewes & lambs - upland		0	4.2	-		Field Beans & peas	4.0	-
other sheep - lowland	0.07	40.6	3.3	1,914.0		Linseed	5.1	-
	other sheep - upland		0	2.6	-		Grass seeds	8.1	-
Pigs		0				Grassland	1.6	438.1
	sows	0.44	0	16	-	270.5	Rough grazing	3.6	-
finnish & rearing (pig place)	0.17	0	1.3	-		fodder crops	2.4	-
	piglets <20kg (pig place)	0.17	0	1	-		fodder roots & Brassicas	40.5	-
Poultry		0				Fodder maize	5.1	-
	table fowl		0	0.03	-		other cereal silages	8.1	-
laying hens		0	0.3	-		Fallow	1.6	-
	growing poultis		0	0.12	-		Sugar Beet	13.4	-
other poultry		0	0.045	-		Set Aside	0.4	-
	Horses		0	150	-		Hops	24.3	-
Goats		0	20	-		Outdoor veg & salads	40.5	-
	Deer		0	15	-		Vinning peas	10.1	-
Free range increase factor		0	0.15	-		Other peas & beans	202.4	-
					-		Iop & soft hull	152.2	-
Bee Hives			11	-		Mushrooms	2923.1	-
			129.4			280	total farm size	Total crops	515.0

Total livestock 4,260.0 Total crops 515.0 Total crops 238.7 Total livestock 4,260.0 Total crops 515.0 Total shareock 4,260.0 Total crops 515.0 Overhead assumption 238.7 assuming 5% overheads allowance Total standard man hours per year 5,013.7 Total labour units required 2.51 assuming 2000 standard labour units per labour unit

Cattle Accomodation	Available Area	Length m	Width m	m²
		m²			Building	1	33.5	15.2
No Breeding cows*	0	5.5	0			2	24	6
0-1 yr old calves	65	3.8	247			3	16	6
1-2 year old calves	70	5.5	385			4	33.4	9.16
Work area	2	150	300
		Total	932		Proposed	1	36.6	26
Feed and Bedding req		Feed bales	Bedding bales
Cows	0	6.5	4	0
0-1 yr old cattle	65	3.4	1.5	318.5			Total available	1055 m²
1-2 yr old cattle	70	4	2	420
Feed	50	5		250			Incl proposed	2007 m²
Feed and Bedding storage	Area req	Height of	Total			difference	5 m²
	No of	per unit m²	area req m²	storage/m	area req

Feed and Bedding ba	989	1.5	1482.75	4.5	330
Hard Feed tonnes	0				0
Machinery	0	0			0
		Cattle total	1262
		Sheep Total	721
		10%	20
			2002	Total area req m²

• medium sized ewe straw bedded area

Sheep Accomodation					Available Area	Length m	Width m	m²
		m²			Building	1	18.28	12.2
No Breeding ewes*	330	1.4	462			2	18.28	9.14
ewe lambs	50	0.5	25			3	0	0
Work area	1	150	150
					Proposed	1	45.75	9.14
Feed and Bedding req	Bales
Housed ewes	330	0.1	33
Winter feed	330	0.3	99				Total available	390
Hay enterprise
Feed	0	25	-				Incl proposed	808
Feed and Bedding storage		Area req	area req	Height of	Total		difference	88
	No of	per unit m²	m²	storage/m	area req
Hay Bales	99	1.7	168.3	3.6	47
Straw bales	33	1.7	56.1	3.6	16
Hard Feed tonnes	12.5	1.7			21
Machinery	0	200			0
		total	721
		10%	7
			728	Total area req m²

Appendix 2

difference

-488

m²

Cattle Accomodation

Total 653

Feed and Bedding req Cows 0 6.5 4 0 0-1 yr old cattle 35 3.4 1.5 171.5 1-2 yr old cattle 40 4 2 240 Feed 25 5 125

Feed and Bedding storage

		m²
No Breeding cows*	0	5.5
0-1 yr old calves	35	3.8
1-2 year old calves	40	5.5
Work area	2	150

No of

Area req per unit m²

Area req m²

Height of storage/m

Total area req

Feed and Bedding ba	537	1.5	804.75	4.5	179
Hard Feed tonnes	0				0
Machinery	0	0			0

Cattle total	832
Sheep Total	696
10%	15
	1543

Available Area	Length m	Width m	m²
Building	1	33.5	15.2
	2	24	6
	3	16	6
	4	33.4	9.16

Proposed

1

0

0

0

Total available	1055	m²
Incl proposed	1055	m²

Sheep Accomodation

	No of	Area req per unit m²	area req m²	Height of storage/m	Total area req
Hay Bales	99	1.7	168.3	3.6	47
Straw bales	33	1.7	56.1	3.6	16
Hard Feed tonnes	12.5	1.7			21
Machinery	0	200			0
		total	696
		10%	7
			703		Total area req m²

Feed and Bedding storage

No Breeding ewes*	330	m²	1.4	462
ewe lambs	0		0.5	0
Work area	1		150	150
Feed and Bedding req	Bales
Housed ewes	330		0.1	33
Winter feed	330		0.3	99
Hay enterprise
Feed	330			-

• medium sized ewe straw bedded area