5 Bar, half mesh Gates

[Greenbeast]

Looking for some small (3' and 4'), 5 bar, half meshed gates, preferably with d-loops rather than spring bolts.
Can't seem to find anything off the shelf, just had a reasonable quote for made to order but the lead time is 12 weeks, which puts us solidly in winter and i need this farrowing system up and running before then.

Any ideas?

 

[madmatt]

Have you tried these guy's they deliver nationwide and just because it isnt on their website doesn't mean they cant supply it

http://secure-a-field.co.uk

 

[bitwrx]

Why do you need gates for outdoor pigs? Are your sows not trained to electric fences?

 

[Greenbeast]

It's hard to fence piglets in with electric? The sow would wreck any lines low enough to hit them.

 

[Forever Fendt]

Could you not order them and in the meantime buy some 4ft sheep hurdles and use them until the gates arrive then flog them on

 

[bitwrx]

The piglets know where the milk bar is at though... They don't go far from mum.

We have 500 sows farrowing outdoors, all behind single electric line at about a foot or 14in off the ground. Gilts are trained in a paddock with electric backed by pig netting for a few weeks. Then out into radial paddocks for service. By the time they make it to their first farrowing they know bloody well not to go near the fence.

Works well for us. Piglets sometimes go for a wander in summer, but never get lost. It's a commercial herd, weaning at 28 days. If you wean later it may not work so well - can't imagine an 8 wk weaner hanging around quite so much if it's basically self-weaned.

ETA - sorry, I'm not actually helping with your current dilemma... We use hurdles tied to posts with string where we need a gate-type device in the field (around the handling circle). Sheep hurdles wouldn't last two mins for us, but would be ok as a stop-gap if the sow has no real motivation to challenge them...)

 

[Greenbeast]

The piglets know where the milk bar is at though... They don't go far from mum.

We have 500 sows farrowing outdoors, all behind single electric line at about a foot or 14in off the ground. Gilts are trained in a paddock with electric backed by pig netting for a few weeks. Then out into radial paddocks for service. By the time they make it to their first farrowing they know bloody well not to go near the fence.

Works well for us. Piglets sometimes go for a wander in summer, but never get lost. It's a commercial herd, weaning at 28 days. If you wean later it may not work so well - can't imagine an 8 wk weaner hanging around quite so much if it's basically self-weaned.

Yeah we wean at 8-10 weeks and by then they're running down the road....

 

[bitwrx]

Yeah we wean at 8-10 weeks and by then they're running down the road....

I'm sh!t out of ideas then. Apart from wean earlier.

 

[Lazy Eric]

Mcveigh Parker will have something

 

[simmy_bull]

How many are you needing?

Get the welder struck up you’ll have a fair few made in 12 weeks

 

[Greenbeast]

How many are you needing?

Get the welder struck up you’ll have a fair few made in 12 weeks

6 gates total. Yeah i know, i just don't get a lot of spare time as much as would go for it. Plus would need to get them galved, etc...

secure-a-field gave me a quote, lower lead time but quite a bit more expensive.