With pre fabricated chute and round forcing pen.
Cattle working chute designs.
New cattle are usually stressed from weaning removal from range crowded trucks and rail cars.
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.
Conditioning or receiving pens hold incoming cattle before they go to the feedlot.
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.
Handle the job easily and safely with cattle flow cattle working diverter chute.
The handler should only enter this area when they need to move cattle into the squeeze chute.
Well placed sliding gates so animals can t back up make it safer when working around cattle.
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.
Since the cattle can see people through the partially open fence people must stay out of this area.
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.
A stationary v shaped chute can handle a variety of cattle sizes with no adjustment.
Cattle into the working chute.
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.
V shaped chutes work well for younger cattle handled in feedlots.
This easy to construct facility is for five to 10 cows.
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.
An indoor working chute head gate allows working in all types of weather at any time of day.
This is a simple economical layout that incorporates many of the features of the larger more expensive designs.
Catwalks must never be overhead.
A simple cattle corral.
Essential cattle alley design tips from cattle experts and leading researchers in the cattle handling industry.
Work from their sides where they can see you.
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Slope working facilities less that 3 to reduce gate swing problems.
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It features a two way sort in front of the squeeze chute and cattle can be soprted three ways out of the curved central alley.
Cattle handling system for a feedlot.
