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<blockquote data-quote="Lbass" data-source="post: 1609801" data-attributes="member: 38465"><p>This was a Area she raised English Mastiffs in, I think the original pens were 40'x10ft with 10x10 inside that chickenhouse. Maybe 12 pens, maybe 14. I think she bought 3 8ft gates and scrounged a 4 and 12ft gate. We pulled the pipe we didn't need and re-drove them to make alley for the cows on the right. The alley on the left just kind of serves as an extra place to sort if you really need it, but I like to keep my table, medicine and supplies in there by the headgate. Gives me a safe walkway between the holding pen and alley. Pretty basic, but works pretty good for the money she invested. That was 8ish years ago. A lot of things that I would do different from scratch. Now that i'm running this farm, I'll probably build some pens and a tapered alley in the building. But that holding pen inside the rail is 32x80, big enough I've put 120 pairs in it. The pen around the corral is 300x70ish and I can drive them from it into the corral by myself. Work everything by myself.</p><p> My big gripes on this corral is </p><p>1) there needs to be a rail between the ground and toprail, I'm young and can hop up on the 5ft fence, but it gets sporty sometimes.</p><p> 2) 6 inches taller would be better </p><p>3) At least 1 more pen, and sort pens with gates on both ends.</p><p> 4) Since it has no "good" way to sort before the headgate, I'ld like tapered alley to keep cows and calves from turning in.</p><p></p><p>Maybe I can take a few more pictures of others. Already buried the truck today, so it'll wait.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lbass, post: 1609801, member: 38465"] This was a Area she raised English Mastiffs in, I think the original pens were 40'x10ft with 10x10 inside that chickenhouse. Maybe 12 pens, maybe 14. I think she bought 3 8ft gates and scrounged a 4 and 12ft gate. We pulled the pipe we didn't need and re-drove them to make alley for the cows on the right. The alley on the left just kind of serves as an extra place to sort if you really need it, but I like to keep my table, medicine and supplies in there by the headgate. Gives me a safe walkway between the holding pen and alley. Pretty basic, but works pretty good for the money she invested. That was 8ish years ago. A lot of things that I would do different from scratch. Now that i'm running this farm, I'll probably build some pens and a tapered alley in the building. But that holding pen inside the rail is 32x80, big enough I've put 120 pairs in it. The pen around the corral is 300x70ish and I can drive them from it into the corral by myself. Work everything by myself. My big gripes on this corral is 1) there needs to be a rail between the ground and toprail, I'm young and can hop up on the 5ft fence, but it gets sporty sometimes. 2) 6 inches taller would be better 3) At least 1 more pen, and sort pens with gates on both ends. 4) Since it has no "good" way to sort before the headgate, I'ld like tapered alley to keep cows and calves from turning in. Maybe I can take a few more pictures of others. Already buried the truck today, so it'll wait. [/QUOTE]
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