Scored a calf table!!
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TennesseeTuxedo
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A little paint and it’ll be good as new.
wbvs58
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Looks the goods. My back would really appreciate that.
Ken
Ken
TN Cattle Man
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Good deal... I may need to borrow that some day! JK!! :lol2:
Dave
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I have one. The mere mention of using it here brings looks of scorn. I helped at 11 or 12 brandings last spring. Well over 2,000 calves. All roped and drug to the fire.
I have used one a lot. It only helps with the back if you use it while the calves are small. Once they get some size them things can be darn hard to tip and to straighten back up.
I have used one a lot. It only helps with the back if you use it while the calves are small. Once they get some size them things can be darn hard to tip and to straighten back up.
GoWyo
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Rope and drag is fun . . . on other people's calves. Good crew is essential. Table is nice when shorthanded, can brand or work them pretty fast and efficient with two or three people. Johnson type table is my favorite.
Dave
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Bigfoot said:
I helped a friend with some big fall calves a couple years ago. The bigger end probably weighed 400. They filled a Powder River table from the front to the back and they were near the top of the table. It took two of us to flip the table and to stand it back up. About 100 calves. I sure felt it by the end of the day and maybe the next day too.
Rib brand here and all bulls are banded at birth. We do them standing up. We can work 200 pairs in an easy day with 4 people and the wife doesn't have to spend the day cooking and cleaning. Don't miss the drunks and missed vaccinations at all.
Been seriously considering a calf table myself. Quit branding calves a few years ago. Everyone wants to go to a branding, but somehow it turned into a spectator event. Branding etiquette seems to have disappeared. Those that do come want to bring horses and stay on them all day. Not many young people to wrestle calves, if you can find some they are hard to train. As well as what Gcreek said.
I wouldn't mind working the calves in May, and a table may be the way to do it. Not really interested in branding the calves, but implants, vaccinations and Ivomec would be good.
I wouldn't mind working the calves in May, and a table may be the way to do it. Not really interested in branding the calves, but implants, vaccinations and Ivomec would be good.
You guys do a lot more calves than I do, but I have never seen the need for one. I can do everything I need with a regular priefert SO4 chute. I don't brand but really don't see why a tilting chute is needed for that either.
Other folks may feel the same way as there is always one on Craigslist.
Now not having an adjustable alley would be a problem with turn arounds.
Other folks may feel the same way as there is always one on Craigslist.
Now not having an adjustable alley would be a problem with turn arounds.
bird dog said:
Seems to me tilting isn't the issue, having a chute of the size to effectively work 60 old calves is. I wait to brand my replacements until they are 12-13 months and are of a size to be properly handled in a full sized chute. A calf table would enable me to do it much sooner and open up some other options.
greggy
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FYI for those worried about calves turning...
I have sheep as well, so have small sheep yards as part of cattle yard, young calves work well in this sheep yard, and the race can be used to keep them still when needed.
Even the year olds and older will pass through the sheep yards, not the race of course, but if calm and not under pressure, not a problem.
You could easily add a sheep race to a yard.
Just a thought.
I have sheep as well, so have small sheep yards as part of cattle yard, young calves work well in this sheep yard, and the race can be used to keep them still when needed.
Even the year olds and older will pass through the sheep yards, not the race of course, but if calm and not under pressure, not a problem.
You could easily add a sheep race to a yard.
Just a thought.
Ky cowboy
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I've been thinking about this also, I wonder if the calf tilt table would work on sheep for hoof trimming. Or the other way around a sheep chute/tilt table work on calves. We've got a few sheep and plan on growing our number as my children get oldergreggy said:
greggy
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Go and look closely at some and the sizes.....
A ram can be quite large and tall, so you would think some brands would be able to do both, but sheep you can put on ground pretty easy and will stay. Large rams are harder, so calf table should accomodate...
May have to weld on some pin lugs.....or run the larger sheep through cattle area...
I have panels in the main yard that will retain everything from young lambs to large cattle....so you can send animal by size to the appropriate working area, I usually do anything with calves in the sheep area, so that is where I would put a calf table if I had one.
It would depend on what you do as to how you set it all up, with temp system and pins you can move and change things as you go...
A ram can be quite large and tall, so you would think some brands would be able to do both, but sheep you can put on ground pretty easy and will stay. Large rams are harder, so calf table should accomodate...
May have to weld on some pin lugs.....or run the larger sheep through cattle area...
I have panels in the main yard that will retain everything from young lambs to large cattle....so you can send animal by size to the appropriate working area, I usually do anything with calves in the sheep area, so that is where I would put a calf table if I had one.
It would depend on what you do as to how you set it all up, with temp system and pins you can move and change things as you go...
