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<blockquote data-quote="bird dog" data-source="post: 1479334" data-attributes="member: 5381"><p>The chute where I built my alley backups was solid and circular and yes I banged my head hundreds of times pushing thru small calves. I hated it. It was on a place I bought. I would never build one that way. I had to build a walkway along the sides to see over the top. My new set of pens is open view. The chute is off of a tub and is 20' long with one sliding gate in the middle. The sliding gate is made of square tube and covered with heavy wire mesh. It is stout. I can get two cows in front of the gate and two behind with the tub gate providing a stop for the back two.</p><p> </p><p>See thru panels or gates has never been an issue with me. I kind of have the opposite view. The cows or calves see the one's in front going thru and being let out and it encourages them to follow. They just want to get out of the pens and back into the pasture.</p><p> When the whole herd is worked I only bring into the pens about 1/3rd of them at a time. The others are in a holding pen waiting there turn. By the time the last group goes through, they having been watching a while and see the routine. A few minutes doing something they don't want and then they are turned out with the others. Even the flighty cows are ready to get'r done. It goes pretty quick.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bird dog, post: 1479334, member: 5381"] The chute where I built my alley backups was solid and circular and yes I banged my head hundreds of times pushing thru small calves. I hated it. It was on a place I bought. I would never build one that way. I had to build a walkway along the sides to see over the top. My new set of pens is open view. The chute is off of a tub and is 20' long with one sliding gate in the middle. The sliding gate is made of square tube and covered with heavy wire mesh. It is stout. I can get two cows in front of the gate and two behind with the tub gate providing a stop for the back two. See thru panels or gates has never been an issue with me. I kind of have the opposite view. The cows or calves see the one's in front going thru and being let out and it encourages them to follow. They just want to get out of the pens and back into the pasture. When the whole herd is worked I only bring into the pens about 1/3rd of them at a time. The others are in a holding pen waiting there turn. By the time the last group goes through, they having been watching a while and see the routine. A few minutes doing something they don't want and then they are turned out with the others. Even the flighty cows are ready to get'r done. It goes pretty quick. [/QUOTE]
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