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Cattle stop just before head gate. Why?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dusty Britches" data-source="post: 1792000" data-attributes="member: 1900"><p>I have a Priefert, too, and started doing this - head gate closed until they walk in - when 2 things happened. First, my sale barn man came out to look at something and told me he had a huge problem lately - cows were going down with broken shoulders. He saw it happen - the man running the hydraulic head gate thought it would be fun to try to catch the cow as she was at a full run. She literally hit the head gate as he closed it so hard she would break both shoulders. He fired the man for making a game of it and the policy has always been to open the head gate when she is in the chute.</p><p></p><p>Second - my head catcher - both manual person and the auto were not moving fast enough or hard enough to catch. I changed the locks on the auto gate and require the cows to enter or almost enter the squeeze before the gate is opened. </p><p></p><p>And training the cows once a week or every 2 weeks by running through without catching is absolutely the best way to handle them going through.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dusty Britches, post: 1792000, member: 1900"] I have a Priefert, too, and started doing this - head gate closed until they walk in - when 2 things happened. First, my sale barn man came out to look at something and told me he had a huge problem lately - cows were going down with broken shoulders. He saw it happen - the man running the hydraulic head gate thought it would be fun to try to catch the cow as she was at a full run. She literally hit the head gate as he closed it so hard she would break both shoulders. He fired the man for making a game of it and the policy has always been to open the head gate when she is in the chute. Second - my head catcher - both manual person and the auto were not moving fast enough or hard enough to catch. I changed the locks on the auto gate and require the cows to enter or almost enter the squeeze before the gate is opened. And training the cows once a week or every 2 weeks by running through without catching is absolutely the best way to handle them going through. [/QUOTE]
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