My barn

[chippie]

In another thread I told about how we get by without chutes. This morning I took a couple of pics of our barn after putting out hay for the horses. (they are in a different pasture than the cattle).
The barn is about 19 years old. We built it from a McCoy's barn kit. It was modified. Made taller (14 foot at the roof eves - right side) and the left side was extended to make stalls. The barn is 48' x 50'.
This is the view from the horse pasture. You can see the stalls on the left. The big white dog is our Great Pyrenees "Bernie". There are two pens behind the barn. The barn opens into one of the pens. One has a little red shelter and the other is open. The cattle are brought up into the pens. When we work them, they are brought into the stalls, caught and put in the trim chute.

This is looking through the barn. You can see the trim chute. The sheep is Andy, the turkeys are The Guys and you can see two of our trailers. A Sooner Stock Combo gooseneck and my Sundowner two horse. That is the end where we back a trailer in to load the cattle that are not halter broke. Like the longhorn.

The openings are large enough to drive through with a trailer.

 

[Limomike]

thats a good workable designed barn. I like it

 

[M5farm]

nice set up. noticed some rust on the barn. dont be temped by the traveling alum spray guys (gypsies). they don't put enough coating on the barns to last more than a year. They took advantage of my aunt last year.

 

[Bigfoot]

Nice big barn. I used to build barns. I enjoy looking at them.

 

[chippie]

Thank you. It does work well. We had a wild mule show up last summer. I got him in the barn and in one of the pens in the back.
I called the livestock officer. He backed his trailer up to the door and my son and I took a couple of livestock panels (my round pen) and set them up from the back pen to the stalls. The sheriff wasn't so sure that it would work. The mule ran through the barn right into his trailer.
: ) Those livestock panels have come in very handy at times.