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Earl Thigpen":4x9o10i0 said:quote]
I had to come back and read this again. I thought you said you had a squeeze chute and that's what you said. So if you have a squeeze chute why do you also need a head gate?
I've used a head gate for years and I don't like it and much prefer the squeeze chute. For one thing, the automatic head gates don't catch 100% and don't catch 20% if the animals have horns. Second, the head gate only captures the around the neck (obviously) allowing the rest of the animal to wave in the breeze in front of and behind the neck capture point and sometimes they hurt themselves. It's been my experience the animal has less chance of hurting itself and is more steady for vaccinating, casterating(sp), palping, branding or whatever, in a squeeze chute.
Maybe I'm not understanding your set-up. What do you have at the end of your squeeze chute?
Ours has a head gate. Sometimes we squeeze, sometimes we don't. (Our vet can't get in behind the calf to castrate with it squeezed.)