Post by Shawn on Apr 15, 2007 14:28:12 GMT -5
Sorry, I didn't have time last weekend, and it's been too dark at night to try. Hope you can see these well enough to understand what I mean.
This first picture is from the front where the calves go in and out. I don't have the spiky pieces sticking down, I just threw this up here to show you. I usually run a 2X4 across the bottom of the panel piece and wire it all together to keep the cow from pushing through it. When I start feeding the calves in there my Belle has been know to get down on her knees and crawl in. At that point I put up another small piece to cut the entrance in half so she can't squeeze through. This gets hard to do when you have a Holstein foster calf that gets really tall, and a Jersey mom.
pic.# 2 as you move around to the right, this is a side view. I made the top rail low enough that cow and reach over and sniff, but not butt. I might add a really high rail with an extra large gap (for cow's head) so that the horses can't lean and push in to get to the trough that I put in there later for feeding the calves.
pic #3 Moving on around to the right. this is the "back" side closest to my milking area. I can let the calves come in to eat through this loosely tied panel piece. They fit right under the 2X4 rails. This works nice when I'm trying to foster on and need to bring them in after the cows come in. The rails on top keep the cow from pushing over and grabbing their food. Always a problem with my greedy little gal.
When I have new babies I clean it out and put down fresh straw. It's kind of dirty now because it's been open and everybody likes to stand in there for some reason. usually I try to keep it shut off when not in use.
in pic # 2 you can see in the very right our "one-way gate" where I let the cows in for milking.
Hope this helps, if you have other questions, please ask.
Shawn
This first picture is from the front where the calves go in and out. I don't have the spiky pieces sticking down, I just threw this up here to show you. I usually run a 2X4 across the bottom of the panel piece and wire it all together to keep the cow from pushing through it. When I start feeding the calves in there my Belle has been know to get down on her knees and crawl in. At that point I put up another small piece to cut the entrance in half so she can't squeeze through. This gets hard to do when you have a Holstein foster calf that gets really tall, and a Jersey mom.
pic.# 2 as you move around to the right, this is a side view. I made the top rail low enough that cow and reach over and sniff, but not butt. I might add a really high rail with an extra large gap (for cow's head) so that the horses can't lean and push in to get to the trough that I put in there later for feeding the calves.
pic #3 Moving on around to the right. this is the "back" side closest to my milking area. I can let the calves come in to eat through this loosely tied panel piece. They fit right under the 2X4 rails. This works nice when I'm trying to foster on and need to bring them in after the cows come in. The rails on top keep the cow from pushing over and grabbing their food. Always a problem with my greedy little gal.
When I have new babies I clean it out and put down fresh straw. It's kind of dirty now because it's been open and everybody likes to stand in there for some reason. usually I try to keep it shut off when not in use.
in pic # 2 you can see in the very right our "one-way gate" where I let the cows in for milking.
Hope this helps, if you have other questions, please ask.
Shawn