Positioning cattle pen

irishguy19772

We currently have a cattle pen for loading cattle inside the entrance to our farm. I was looking to improve it and install a crush in it. Our other crush is up the land and hard to load cattle. The existing pen is 2 Gates and walls of large stones and has access to the road. Just wondering if any advice on how best to utilize what is already there. My plan was to build another pen perpindicular Ina sprt ofnL shape and have crush in new pen run into the existing pen. Any ideas. Thanks very much

minerleague

irishguy19772 wrote: »

We currently have a cattle pen for loading cattle inside the entrance to our farm. I was looking to improve it and install a crush in it. Our other crush is up the land and hard to load cattle. The existing pen is 2 Gates and walls of large stones and has access to the road. Just wondering if any advice on how best to utilize what is already there. My plan was to build another pen perpindicular Ina sprt ofnL shape and have crush in new pen run into the existing pen. Any ideas. Thanks very much

hard to say from drawing but cattle in new pen waiting to go in crush seem to be in same space
as person working cattle in crush, could u leave crush as drawn but move new pen to the
right where crush would link 2 pens? why not use area marked roadway to farm as pen?

irishguy19772

Thanks for that. Yeah I guess the way I have drawn it is that cattle are driven to the new pen that has the crush and then go from crush into any empty pen. Makes more sense as you say to have the pen with the crush as the second pen the cattle go into. Then from crush they just go back into land. Be safer for loading. Thanks. I know it sound quite stupid. But want to make the best of what is already there.

Good loser

irishguy19772 wrote: »

Thanks for that. Yeah I guess the way I have drawn it is that cattle are driven to the new pen that has the crush and then go from crush into any empty pen. Makes more sense as you say to have the pen with the crush as the second pen the cattle go into. Then from crush they just go back into land. Be safer for loading. Thanks. I know it sound quite stupid. But want to make the best of what is already there.

Don't know that makes much difference.
Like an angled gate, or two, leading into crush. I load big cattle through crush; lorry backs up to gate.
If you're right handed have wall of crush on left hand side and bars on rhs.
You catch with left hand and hold drench in right hand.

minerleague

irishguy19772 wrote: »

Thanks for that. Yeah I guess the way I have drawn it is that cattle are driven to the new pen that has the crush and then go from crush into any empty pen. Makes more sense as you say to have the pen with the crush as the second pen the cattle go into. Then from crush they just go back into land. Be safer for loading. Thanks. I know it sound quite stupid. But want to make the best of what is already there.

No nothing stupid about making most of whats there Every penny spent is hard earned in farming. Btw i'm not saying anything I suggest is better than your own idea but what if you moved crush out 4 feet from laneway and concrete a raised
step as an area for vet ( yourself ) to dose/inject cattle in crush but leave pen as drawn otherwise

DJ98

What would be the best type of stone to use in the base of a cattle or sheep pen where concreting ain't an option?