Livestock Manure Handling:
1. How far is your livestock yard from:?
a) water well?
b) surface water?
c) tile inlet?
2 Is the yard located ulslope from:
3. How deep is the soil layer in the livestock yard?
4. Describe the soil texture in the livestock yard?
5. Describe the drainage of hte soil in the livestock yard?
Surface Water Diversion and lot Runoff Control
6. Does any upslope surface water run through the yard?
7. Is the roof water collected and diverted from the yard?
8. Does the yard have curbs?
9. Do you collect and store the runoff from the livestock yard?
If answer to question 9 is no,skip question 10
10. Do you use an infiltration strip to receive runoff from the yard?
11. Do you separate the solids from the runoff?
Yard Cleaning and Yard Size:
12. How often do you clean and scratpe the livestock yard when animals are present?
13. Please enter the area of livestock yard (in square feet)
Square feet
14. Please enter the maximum number of animals kept on the yard at a time
15. Effective area of the yard in use is: square feet/animal
16. Select the kind of surface your livestock yard has?
Paved Earthen
17. Select the kind of animal(s) you have in the yard
Select all that apply
Dairy cows Dairy replacemnt Beef feeders Beef cows and heifers Sheep and ewes Feeder lambs Hogs and sows Growing/finishing pigs Horses Turkey Beef feeders
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