Deesing Livestock Handling Systems products

Selector gates in the crowd pen direct cattle into either the single file chute toward the squeeze chute (crush), to the large truck (lorry) loading ramp, or into a stock (utility) trailer chute. This facility also has a single file chute leading to a row of palpation chutes for students to practice palpating cows for pregnancy testing, or for artificial insemination.

The single file chute (race) enters a small 24-feet (8m) x 30-feet (10m) covered work area over the squeeze chute. Doors at both the entrance and exit to the building allow the building to be closed and locked when not in use. The building is small enough to heat in the winter, and ventilated to keep people handling cattle cool in winter.

Colorado State University Cattle Research Station (ARDEC). This facility is a good model for a small to medium sized feed yard handling system. The radius for the wide curved lane is 20-feet (6.5m). The solid sided wide curved lane hold approximately 50 cattle. Cattle move through the curved lane into the crowd pen. From the crowd pen cattle can enter into the single file chute (race) to the squeeze chute, or from the crowd pen onto a semi-truck (lorry) loading ramp or a stock trailer chute,

Curved Cattle Handling System on a cow-calf operation in Wisconsin, USA. Waseda Farms is an organic beef farm located in Door County. The squeeze chute is inside the covered work area. Visit wasedafarms.com for more information on this company.

Cattle Corral with curved single-file chute (race) and round crowd pen. The fence posts are all 2-7/8-ini` (7.30cm) O.D. used oil field pipe. In the areas with solid fence, the maximum distance between the fence posts is 4-feet (1.2m). Space posts no more than 8-feet (2.5m) apart in areas of the corral where the fence is not solid. The raised concrete platform on the inside radius of the single file chute (race) saves walking distance from the squeeze (crush) chute to the crowd pen.