Cattle Handling Systems

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Our bud box at the end of our squeeze is 14 x 20 and is built with hi-hog panels and a hi-hog overhead gate. We hung plywood on the covered areas using 2" U clamps, so it is quiet.
Our box for the loading chute is really more of a long narrow pen at the end of the chute. It can hold up 100 calves if we pack it. It is roughly 14' x 40'. We have other pens that lead into it that we can pre-sort into. For example, if we are loading a split load of calves/cows, we would put calves into the box and have cows pre-sorted into groups before the box. We sometimes overfill and then step in to cut off the flow. The only issue we have with it is that our ground loading chute would be better if it were just a bit shorter (the chute, not the box).

Thanks Sean for that. Things got busy here and I forgot to reply. Everyone has a different way to achieve the same goal. Interesting to see some of the different ways it is done.