OT cattle chute/squeeze

Bkpigs · Jan 11, 2011

I am looking for a cattle chute (used) and just woundering if anyone has tips. I have used many cattle chutes when I worked on dairy farms but never had to purchase one. Don"t want one too expensive (only have a couple of steers), just one to help with giving the ocassional shot of pennicillin (sp?) and worming. Was also thinking of maybe just getting head gates and installing them on the feed bunk (like alot of dairy farms use for heard check).

M Nut · Jan 11, 2011

Not really a tip, but unless you get lucky, decent used ones are hard to find, and often the used ones that are any good are priced only a couple of hundred less than new. I know a new one from Fleet Farm is about $1800, and most used ones that are any good I see are priced right around that $1500. I have one used one I got really lucky and bought for $450, but I called the moment I saw the ad and promptly drove the 20 miles and paid for it on the spot. By the time I got there the owner had quit answering the phone because he had so many calls in that 30 minutes of time. I'd like another one to install in another barn, but have never found one that was an affordable price. thinking I may just have to bite the bullet and go with new.

Allen Goodman · Jan 11, 2011

Where you located? I have a freind who has a couple chutes. He don't have any cattle anymore, may want to get rid of one. I'm located in Colorado. 719 440-1105

Jerry/MT · Jan 11, 2011

For just a few cattle, consider a self-catch head gate and build a short narrow alley out of lumber. Run them into the alley and slip a post between the rails and posts so they can"t back out. Then let the self catch trap them. Chutes have gotten pretty expensive and good used ones are hard to find.

thurlow · Jan 11, 2011

A home-made head gate at the end of a short chute will work for what you want. Two vertical 2-inch pipes/one stationery/second with hole and bolt at bottom so it can move. A flat........notched......bar horizontal across the top to catch and hold 'em. Will take 2 people...one to push 'em and one to catch 'em. Look at google images and further simplify the simplest ones.
catch em

Anonymous-0 · Jan 11, 2011

(quoted from post at 10:08:28 01/11/11) I am looking for a cattle chute (used) and just woundering if anyone has tips. I have used many cattle chutes when I worked on dairy farms but never had to purchase one. Don"t want one too expensive (only have a couple of steers), just one to help with giving the ocassional shot of pennicillin (sp?) and worming. Was also thinking of maybe just getting head gates and installing them on the feed bunk (like alot of dairy farms use for heard check).

What if you just used 2 (1 if you use a corner) stock panels. Fasten ends to a wall the width you want, swing them open a little, run them in to the wall, crowd the panel /s and slip in a pipe/4x4 to keep them from backing up.

Just a thought.

Dave

Anonymous-0 · Jan 11, 2011

this is one a guy in the UK made. Scroll down and click on the picture.

http://farmingforum.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=44480

Bkpigs · Jan 11, 2011

I am in So. Ill. A little too far but many thanks anyhow!

Bkpigs · Jan 11, 2011

That is what we are kinda doing now except when they get 800# and up they tend to wear the gates out pretty quick (don't have any nice Souix (sp?) gates around). I have found some plans on the 'net on how to build your own. I may give that a try.

TimV · Jan 11, 2011

At the risk of oversimplifying, some good stout oak, hickory or similar also would work nicely and is a lot easier to work with if you don't have a welder available. We never had a chute on our dairy farm, we just used the existing wooden stanchions.

Mike (WA) · Jan 11, 2011

I made one when I had cattle.

Had a head-gate, so poured a slab where the critter would stand when in the head gate. While pouring, set 4 hinges- the heaviest I could find- in the concrete, 2 on each side. Built side panels and attached them to the hinges, mounted pulleys on the top of the panels so I could pull them together to immobilize the critter. Worked fine for me.

JWalker · Jan 11, 2011

Not sure where you are located but try your local cattelmans association. Here in South Carolina the association I am a member of bought one for the active members to use. They only charge $5 to use it. It is one of the benifits of membership. I have used it several times and only run 10 to 15 head.

kyhayman · Jan 11, 2011

Just a head gate with some 2x6 oak plank panels is all I've got at one farm. Its not perfect but it works pretty well for up to about 20 head. At the other farm I've got a full UC set up and its definitely a lot better, but its several thousand bucks verses a couple of hundred.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 11, 2011

If I only had a couple of steers I would catch them between a steel swing gate and the wood corral panel, with his nose toward the hinge and a rope behind him to keep him from backing out. Not sure how you are going to arrange your crowding areas and chute, my suggestion, make sure it so narrow they can not turn around, have a way of side oppening built in so if a animal goes down you can get him out.

JMS/.MN · Jan 12, 2011

I built a breeding chute in the pole shed for AI on heifers, shots, and castrating bulls, dehorning, etc. Just set two extra 5x6 poles about 30 inches from the wall, hung a 16 foot crowd gate from the rear post, and had a plank panel to drop in a slot behind the animal for restraint. Chute sides were two inch plank. Could corral the rascals by myself or with one helper. Setup was next to the 16 foot door, so the crowd gate kept animals and manure away from the door when not in use. One side was the planked shed wall, other was solid up to about waist high, with another plank at my head height to keep them from jumping over, but allowing me to reach in for dehorning, etc.

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