saltbranch
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Anyone have any pics or drawings to share. Looking to build a small set of pens, about 30 head at most. Found some ideas searching the forums, just seeing if something else is posted.
Thx
Thx
Bigfoot":83ft5r9a said:I like my working pens to have no 90 degree turns in it. This might be something you consider when sketching it out. I would like to take the time to learn how to post pictures. My tub is really inexpensive, and works well. I am also no big fan of panels. I use pressure treated post with pressure treated 2 x 8's. You can taller for little extra expense this way. Mine is a little over 7 feet. I build my own gates the regular tube gates are too tempting for then to jump. Just an OCD thing of mine against weeds I wet mine with crossbow a few times a year.
saltbranch":3st4cwna said:Anyone have any pics or drawings to share. Looking to build a small set of pens, about 30 head at most. Found some ideas searching the forums, just seeing if something else is posted.
Thx
James T":1abibtxl said:saltbranch":1abibtxl said:Anyone have any pics or drawings to share. Looking to build a small set of pens, about 30 head at most. Found some ideas searching the forums, just seeing if something else is posted.
Thx
Salt, most of us tend to think in terms of boxes and rectangles, complete with 90 degree corners. There is a completely different way of desigingn even a small system that will allow you to work your cattle very calmly and without a lot of stress - no stock caught in a corner, no need to hit them with a hot shot or throwing bricks and sticks to get them to move. You can often even work them yourself, if designed properly. Check out http://www.grandin.com/ . Good luck!
Not sure I'm understanding the question. Are you referring to the gates in the alley?Douglas":251qdtaz said:^ My pen is designed just like that LSU one. How in that design do you keep the cows from moving toward your swinging gate hinges instead of the chute?
heath":1rb5i6ug said:Not sure I'm understanding the question. Are you referring to the gates in the alley?Douglas":1rb5i6ug said:^ My pen is designed just like that LSU one. How in that design do you keep the cows from moving toward your swinging gate hinges instead of the chute?
Douglas":1i6sg0vm said:heath":1i6sg0vm said:Not sure I'm understanding the question. Are you referring to the gates in the alley?Douglas":1i6sg0vm said:^ My pen is designed just like that LSU one. How in that design do you keep the cows from moving toward your swinging gate hinges instead of the chute?
The swinging gate in the crowd wing pen. See LSU link above. When you sweep the cows around they tend to refusd to go up the chute and toward the corner when the sweeping gate hinges.
Sounds like alot of cutting and welding to help the odd cow that can't find the hole.backhoeboogie":2vynyy05 said:put your pivot for that gate onto the corner of the hashed line. Take the rounded corner out of the bottom left and make it square. Put in a gulotine going into the narrow chute on the left. Now you have a medina if the guilotine is closed. You can push them into the guilotine if you want with a head gate on the end. Your cut gate can squeeze down into a triangle on the medina side.
heath":1z87iz9p said:Sounds like alot of cutting and welding to help the odd cow that can't find the hole.backhoeboogie":1z87iz9p said:put your pivot for that gate onto the corner of the hashed line. Take the rounded corner out of the bottom left and make it square. Put in a gulotine going into the narrow chute on the left. Now you have a medina if the guilotine is closed. You can push them into the guilotine if you want with a head gate on the end. Your cut gate can squeeze down into a triangle on the medina side.
heath":20gd0mer said:I can see your point. But, if the cow is already in the sweep, she is gonna have a hard time getting to you to eat your lunch. My chute's side swings open, so it can be used like a medina.