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<blockquote data-quote="cow pollinater" data-source="post: 943703" data-attributes="member: 14661"><p>Personally I've found railroad ties and 2x8's the be the cheapest and sturdiest corrals. That can vary some by region depending on shipping costs and availability. </p><p>As far as width, I like 28 inches but I try to keep smaller cows so if your cows are big then more may be better. </p><p>For ten head(I'm assuming they're fairly gentle), I think I'd go with a bigger catch pen, a smaller crowding/sorting pen that you can push them into that's no more than ten feet wide, and then a gate of no more than eight feet that will lead from the crowd pen to the alley with a tight tapered area in between the gate and the lead up. I wouldn't make it much longer than twenty feet as you'd have plenty of room to hold half the cows in the crowding pen and that gives you five cows in the lane.</p><p>And :welcome:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cow pollinater, post: 943703, member: 14661"] Personally I've found railroad ties and 2x8's the be the cheapest and sturdiest corrals. That can vary some by region depending on shipping costs and availability. As far as width, I like 28 inches but I try to keep smaller cows so if your cows are big then more may be better. For ten head(I'm assuming they're fairly gentle), I think I'd go with a bigger catch pen, a smaller crowding/sorting pen that you can push them into that's no more than ten feet wide, and then a gate of no more than eight feet that will lead from the crowd pen to the alley with a tight tapered area in between the gate and the lead up. I wouldn't make it much longer than twenty feet as you'd have plenty of room to hold half the cows in the crowding pen and that gives you five cows in the lane. And :welcome: [/QUOTE]
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