Posted by KEH on June 01, 2016 at 16:53:59 from (64.53.75.200):
In Reply to: Weds Weekly Feature Nght posted by larry@stinescorner on June 01, 2016 at 15:51:55:
Purchased a few years ago a model 91 Priefert head gate. (Can't get a link to work) It is automatic or manual but I have only used it manually. Works slick, wish I had bought one sooner. Previously a friend had given me a homemade chute with a homemade head gate, made from heavy steel pipe. It was designed to sit flat on the ground with the cows standing on the ground. I don't like this system, my theory is that the chute needs to have a floor in it so that the cow is enclosed and if agitated(WHEN agitated!) she will be working against her self trying to get out. Therefore I took the chute and removed the homemade gate. I welded brackets to fasten the Priefert gate to the front of the chute. I welded supports for a floor and bolted in an oak floor. Board were place crosswise to give the cows more traction and narrow strips of oak were added to the top of the floor for the same reason. When cattle get in the chute and the head gate closes, they stay in there. The gate opens to the front to let the cows out. Commercial chutes open to the side, I would appreciate comments about which escape system is best.
Chute is too wide for stocker calves and I didn't make a squeeze mechanism. To reduce width, I made boxes about 4 inches thick with a plywood skin and set them in the chute. Works fine so far. Sorry for no pics.
Other handling tricks: I posted about the bull escaping from the stockyards. Previously he had escaped and torn down some loading pen sections on the farm he was on. Man who caught him and took him to the stockyards set up corral panels making a chute, fairly long, which was the escape route from the pen. Bull and other stock was fen in the pen and when the bull was in there some made an appearance so that the bull went out the chute to escape the pen. After a few times of this the man parked the cattle trailer at the end of the chute so that when the bull went to escape he wound up in the trailer, where he agitated all the way to the stockyards.
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