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<blockquote data-quote="DrDunc" data-source="post: 7890298" data-attributes="member: 615"><p>The eight foot wide crowding pens are to suit the 16 foot "supor"forcing circle, but I like 8 foot: I find it's narrow enough that neither yearlings nor cows can turn on you, but wide enough you can shed them past without getting kicked. I'm (fairly) sure they'll run into it fine when all three of the 20 foot pens are open into the forcing circle.</p><p></p><p>I was intending putting a shedding gate at the end of the crush so they go back out to the collecting pen, or into the first of the three crowding pens. Hadn't thought of putting one in the race? Wouldn't there need to be a sliding gate before it to stop the rest following the first one out?</p><p></p><p>If everyone thinks the 30 foot race will need anchored, then I'll have to put in some posts prior to concreting.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😭" title="Loudly crying face :sob:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f62d.png" data-shortname=":sob:" /> I suppose a 3 or 4 fence strainers would be the cheapest/quickest?</p><p></p><p>I'm also wanting to load the ifor with 7 or 8 yearlings out of the end of the crush. Does this work in practice, or do you get one turning back before the last has got out the crush?</p><p></p><p>I loaded cattle in Australia out a race into a single file loading ramp onto the lorry. Does anyone else load them out the crush into the ifor?</p><p></p><p>It worked well in Oz, but the cattle were wild and would run anywhere!</p><p></p><p>Thank you for the tips everyone <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="👍" title="Thumbs up :thumbsup:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png" data-shortname=":thumbsup:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrDunc, post: 7890298, member: 615"] The eight foot wide crowding pens are to suit the 16 foot "supor"forcing circle, but I like 8 foot: I find it's narrow enough that neither yearlings nor cows can turn on you, but wide enough you can shed them past without getting kicked. I'm (fairly) sure they'll run into it fine when all three of the 20 foot pens are open into the forcing circle. I was intending putting a shedding gate at the end of the crush so they go back out to the collecting pen, or into the first of the three crowding pens. Hadn't thought of putting one in the race? Wouldn't there need to be a sliding gate before it to stop the rest following the first one out? If everyone thinks the 30 foot race will need anchored, then I'll have to put in some posts prior to concreting.😭 I suppose a 3 or 4 fence strainers would be the cheapest/quickest? I'm also wanting to load the ifor with 7 or 8 yearlings out of the end of the crush. Does this work in practice, or do you get one turning back before the last has got out the crush? I loaded cattle in Australia out a race into a single file loading ramp onto the lorry. Does anyone else load them out the crush into the ifor? It worked well in Oz, but the cattle were wild and would run anywhere! Thank you for the tips everyone 👍 [/QUOTE]
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