Maximum width at top 28 inches. Use thicker boards at the bottom will help keep calves from turning around. Slope the top of the last bottom board. To keep stock from climbing on it. Consider an alley way long enough to hold 4-5 cows. Posts on the alley way should be 7-8 above thev ground and tied together across the top with 2x6s. That keeps the whole structure from getting wider with time and use. Biggest baddest posts and boards you can find A rear entry door that allows one to preg check, breed, and castrate is simple to build. Just make the entry stout so it keeps cow #2 from running you over while you are doing work on the rear of cow #1. Calves will occasionally back out that entry , but cows run back, hit the door that has been closed across the alley and out the front they go! Get you act together at the head gate then open the rear door, catch the next cow, the close the gate again. 35 years of haul in veterinary services on above mentioned issues. We had a very short 32 inch alley and separate Palco head gate for bulls and mature Holsteins
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