Home Made Cattle Race

Horn&corn

Member
They are ridiculously expensive but when you factor in 40% grant and they don’t depreciate if looked after they’re not too bad.
 

steveR

Member
Mixed Farmer
New Cattle Race are ridiculous money show your Home Made Cattle Race so i can steal ideas ;)
Ex Motorway crash barriers are the best DIY races I have seen on my travels.

Can be stand alone and use barriers cut down or telegraph poles as the uprights, then bolt 3-4 laterals to the uprights.

Seen them bolted to the inside/outside of a steel frame building many times.
 

milkloss

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
Ex Motorway crash barriers are the best DIY races I have seen on my travels.

Can be stand alone and use barriers cut down or telegraph poles as the uprights, then bolt 3-4 laterals to the uprights.

Seen them bolted to the inside/outside of a steel frame building many times.
As long as you don’t get a leg through one!
 

BuskhillFarm

Member
Arable Farmer
I’ve tested countless cattle for daera. My ideal race would have round galvanised bars (so you don’t snag clothing) Morris type gate for actually catching their head in with a simple swing gate in front for just dosing. And a push at rear. But it’s the collecting yard is the engine of the crush and good push up gate in it helps
 

Old Tup

Member
Buy a decent Hydraulic crush….
Box section constructed race sheeted with rigid Plastic sheeting to above head height of the cattle.
Raised walk way along one side .
8 to 10 ft penning on way down to end of narrow race….swing gate around 180 deg bend feeding into end of narrow race….sliding door at the start of the narrow race…
Make sure that the direction of flow into the crate is away from direct sunlight…East or North ideal.
Think about where the cattle will go when leaving the crate…
 

Limcrazy

Member
Prefer round pipe to crash barrier for race as they're not very forgiving if legs go out through them. A low wall with a walkway on outside and a couple of pipe rails works well and leaves plenty of room to reach through. Test, dose, vaccinate with only having to headlock a few that don't cooperate.
 

Martyn

Member
Location
South west
Couple of second hand 4/5 years old cattle handling systems sold by stags recently, they really don't hold their value at all.

I built my own out of crash barriers and telegraph poles, and am able to pen about 50 large head of stock in it, with farm bits and bobs plus £1500 of new heavy gates I feel it far more justified than a new fancy set up.
 

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Wellpark

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Mixed Farmer
A central cattle free area for people and everything else is good to have .
I made a gate to swing 280 degrees to bring cattle rinound the turn in to the race
It also folds in the middle to let cattle past rather than have to push them back to Get the gate open for next batch, that saves a lot of space
Sliding gates , vet box and squeeze crush
Works well
 

bravheart

Member
Location
scottish borders
Made this last year and posted on here.
Still rough round the edges, would I change it yes(an adjustable side for youngstock would be good) but works for me as is.
There's others on here think it was @Andrew that has a cad build squeezed into an existing shed on here a few years ago.
 

young bull

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
West Yorkshire

This is the one we made ourselves a few years ago now.
 

Lofty1984

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
South wales
We used railway sleepers as posts then bolted the crash barriers on also had post made for a circular backing gate made out of an old oxy bottle I can get pics of it helps
 

bravheart

Member
Location
scottish borders

This is the one we made ourselves a few years ago now.
That's a great job there @young bull well done. few years on now is there anything you would have done differently?
 

steveR

Member
Mixed Farmer
A central cattle free area for people and everything else is good to have .
I made a gate to swing 280 degrees to bring cattle rinound the turn in to the race
It also folds in the middle to let cattle past rather than have to push them back to Get the gate open for next batch, that saves a lot of space
Sliding gates , vet box and squeeze crush
Works well
Essential.
 

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