Best calf dehorning crate ?

[westwards]

To be fair after looking on IAE website ours must be an old type, no hinged rear side doors and has a chain to keep the locking handle fastened down. Chain always dragging in the sh1t, if handle isn’t locked down calf lifts head up and the handle hits you in the face, this has happened to old chap and the vet who both were rather p1ssed off when it happened!

My wife uses an IAE calf crush and does them at 4 weeks or when horns are showing and never any complaints.

 

[Forever Fendt]

I can supply you the Teemore crate at a competitive price they will take a bit of beating but I like the look of the one in the picture particularly the fact as the head restraint is on a friction lock although as with others the ratchet on the belly plate and rump

bar looks to big and you have to pinch the calf a lot to release them and 4 lugs on the back for a hurdle would be helpful

 

[Old Tip]

Just looking at this thread as thinking of purchasing a crate, they look bloody expensive for a few bits of pipe and tin, the Batmen one is over a grand
Dread to think what the Teemore one above is priced at and do they really need to be that flash to restrain a week old calf
Thinking hat on

 

[Stw88]

I could do with a new de horning crate, one dad made 30+ years ago is starting to decay! see you can get on on the new grants but they have to have a belly plate for holding the calf up. Is there just the teemore one that does this? It looks abit over the top.

 

[Forever Fendt]

Just looking at this thread as thinking of purchasing a crate, they look bloody expensive for a few bits of pipe and tin, the Batmen one is over a grand
Dread to think what the Teemore one above is priced at and do they really need to be that flash to restrain a week old calf
Thinking hat on

Have 2 here £ 685 plus vat and delivery

 

[Happy]

Calf dehorning crates look like they have gone backwards in design terms to me.

Have a 35 year old Poldenvale one here which is fixed one side and squeezes up on the other firmly holding any size calf.

All the new ones I’ve seen in recent years seem to be fixed width. Do the calves not wriggle about in these type?
Surely somebody is still making a calf squeeze crate given how popular they have become for handling bigger cattle in recent years?

 

[manhill]

Do some come with a cup holder for holding their nicknacks as well???

 

[Old Tip]

Have 2 here £ 685 plus vat and delivery

DM me please

 

[Rossymons]

Calf dehorning crates look like they have gone backwards in design terms to me.

Have a 35 year old Poldenvale one here which is fixed one side and squeezes up on the other firmly holding any size calf.

All the new ones I’ve seen in recent years seem to be fixed width. Do the calves not wriggle about in these type?
Surely somebody is still making a calf squeeze crate given how popular they have become for handling bigger cattle in recent years?

I've had both the IAE and Bateman crates and the Bateman is the better of the 2. The fixed width of the IAE is a big problem for the wriggling. The Bateman has a better yoke, catches the calf better plus rump bar is much better too.

But my eyes would water at that price too!

 

[Hampton]

I've had both the IAE and Bateman crates and the Bateman is the better of the 2. The fixed width of the IAE is a big problem for the wriggling. The Bateman has a better yoke, catches the calf better plus rump bar is much better too.

But my eyes would water at that price too!

Was shocked when I saw what the Bateman costs now. Had mine about 8 years and it was £450

their was a little at dealers near Welshpool that weee quite competitive for them but I forget the name.

 

[Forever Fendt]

DM me please

I have done

 

[Ffermer Bach]

silly question, but why not put on paste when you tag the newborn calf (and rubber ring the males at the same time)?

 

[Hampton]

silly question, but why not put on paste when you tag the newborn calf (and rubber ring the males at the same time)?

We don’t use paste and we keep the males entire

 

[Ffermer Bach]

We don’t use paste and we keep the males entire

since my son said try paste (that was what they used where he used to work), I would never willingly go back to disbudding, having said that, I may have to get the barnes disbudder out for a couple where the cow has licked the past off!

 

[Om352]

Just looking at this thread as thinking of purchasing a crate, they look bloody expensive for a few bits of pipe and tin, the Batmen one is over a grand
Dread to think what the Teemore one above is priced at and do they really need to be that flash to restrain a week old calf
Thinking hat on

We have one, really made for a bigger calf. A week old calf would be lost in there. Don't really use the belly band as they can get their legs caught up, just squeeze them with back ratchet and head lock. Having a gate to guide them in makes it easy. Good crate but pricey.

 

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This is what we have, works fine.

 

[Hampton]

since my son said try paste (that was what they used where he used to work), I would never willingly go back to disbudding, having said that, I may have to get the barnes disbudder out for a couple where the cow has licked the past off!

What is the youngest age and the cut off for the paste?

 

[Fendt516profi]

Have 2 here £ 685 plus vat and delivery

Is that price for a new teemore?

 

[Forever Fendt]

Is that price for a new teemore?

Brand new

 

[Fendt516profi]

Brand new

would it meet this specification