Work from their sides where they can see you.
Cattle working chute designs.
New cattle are usually stressed from weaning removal from range crowded trucks and rail cars.
The handler should only enter this area when they need to move cattle into the squeeze chute.
This is a simple economical layout that incorporates many of the features of the larger more expensive designs.
Slope working facilities less that 3 to reduce gate swing problems.
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Priefert s number one selling squeeze chute of all time the s04 has everything to help make cattle working safer quicker and easier than ever before.
The crowding pen must be designed so that cattle can be easily moved into it from the holding pens and then easily moved into the working chute.
With pre fabricated chute and round forcing pen.
This easy to construct facility is for five to 10 cows.
Since the cattle can see people through the partially open fence people must stay out of this area.
A stationary v shaped chute can handle a variety of cattle sizes with no adjustment.
V shaped chutes work well for younger cattle handled in feedlots.
Say you are sending cattle up a loading chute or into a squeeze chute and a cow come through that you need to kick out or divert for another purpose.
Cattle move more freely when they cannot see the cattlemen or the squeeze chute until they are within a few feet of the end of the working chute.
Handle the job easily and safely with cattle flow cattle working diverter chute.
Cattle flow cattle working diverter chute.
Conditioning or receiving pens hold incoming cattle before they go to the feedlot.
If a balky animal requires prodding it is a short distance from the squeeze chute or headgate to any location beside the curved working chute.
Cattle into the working chute.
This action maintains cattle flow and that is the objective a good corral design allows sorting from the squeeze chute without disrupting the flow of cattle entering the working area raymond huhnke and sam harp wrote in texas agricultural extension service bulletin bcm 49.
The disadvantage is that large cows from breeds that have really wide bodies may have difficulty walking through them.
The heart of the crowding pen is a swinging gate that is used to reduce the size.
Another option with this design is to make all the fences completely solid and install catwalks.
An indoor working chute head gate allows working in all types of weather at any time of day.
A simple cattle corral.
Catwalks must never be overhead.
Cattle handling system for a feedlot.
Well placed sliding gates so animals can t back up make it safer when working around cattle.
Model s01 squeeze chute nicknamed the rancher the s01 squeeze chute is the obvious choice for economy minded ranchers.
