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This is what I finally came up with for doctoring our sheep. Hopefully no more sprained wrists and rope burns. I took about 3-4 days for them to get used to coming and going through it, but no hesitation now.
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The bottom is 10" wide, and our Barbados don't have any trouble trotting through. The "squeeze" panel is hinged from the bottom, with chains at the top to latch over hooks so it's adjustable for size, keeping the animal immobile. The triangle to the left is a gate that swings to close the chute. The squeeze panel is just long enough to hold one sheep at a time.
I tried to make the chute constrictive enough to keep the animals from getting excited and hurting themselves.
We've only used it once for it's intended purpose, and found we needed to slide a board behind the front sheep to keep the next one from trying to bolt through when we opened the gate/released the squeeze panel. I'll put up some pictures with sheep in it.
I tried to make the chute constrictive enough to keep the animals from getting excited and hurting themselves.
We've only used it once for it's intended purpose, and found we needed to slide a board behind the front sheep to keep the next one from trying to bolt through when we opened the gate/released the squeeze panel. I'll put up some pictures with sheep in it.
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Took this picture this morning, as you can see, they fit nicely into the chute, and have no problem going through.
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Plans? What plans? I usually just make it up as I go along.
Yes, that white face coming out of the chute is Target, Dayton's lamb.
Yes, that white face coming out of the chute is Target, Dayton's lamb.
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Very nice job!
Wish I could be so handy!!
Wish I could be so handy!!
Looks nice. We use an old cattle headgate and chute that we shrunk in height and width to handle sheep. We have a horizontal board across the headgate that keeps the sheep from lifting their heads and escaping 
It's amazing how thin a sheep really is inside a chute.
Looking forward to hearing some long term results with the squeeze instead of headgate. Looks easy to build and probably effective. Only change I would do is cut the height way down. Our chute is only waist high and we have never had any escapees, and it is so easy to work when you can just step over the rail to handle the animals.
It's amazing how thin a sheep really is inside a chute.Looking forward to hearing some long term results with the squeeze instead of headgate. Looks easy to build and probably effective. Only change I would do is cut the height way down. Our chute is only waist high and we have never had any escapees, and it is so easy to work when you can just step over the rail to handle the animals.
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The Knack
In August, 2000 I got a sound file via e-mail. It sounds much better (including dramatic background music) than it reads, but in order for search engines to find this piece, here's the transcription:
Doctor: "It's worse than I feared."
Mother: "What is it?"
Doctor: "I'm afraid your son has ... the Knack."
Mother: "The knack?"
Doctor: "The Knack. It's a rare condition characterized by an extreme intuition about all things mechanical and electrical ... and utter social ineptitude."
Mother: "Can he lead a normal life?"
Doctor: "No. He'll be an engineer."
Mother: "Oh, no! [crying]"
Doctor: "There, there. Don't blame yourself."
http://home.pcisys.net/~tbc/hacks/knack.htm
In August, 2000 I got a sound file via e-mail. It sounds much better (including dramatic background music) than it reads, but in order for search engines to find this piece, here's the transcription:
Doctor: "It's worse than I feared."
Mother: "What is it?"
Doctor: "I'm afraid your son has ... the Knack."
Mother: "The knack?"
Doctor: "The Knack. It's a rare condition characterized by an extreme intuition about all things mechanical and electrical ... and utter social ineptitude."
Mother: "Can he lead a normal life?"
Doctor: "No. He'll be an engineer."
Mother: "Oh, no! [crying]"
Doctor: "There, there. Don't blame yourself."
http://home.pcisys.net/~tbc/hacks/knack.htm
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Thanks, I think.
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Love this! Well, now that you figured it out going along, you'll have to back-track and make plans for the rest of us LOL! Truly, I'd really like to get something like this going. Usually, I have my dog hold them to me in a corner so I can grab and flip into a sit against my legs for this and that, but don't like to do it with pregnant girls etc. I'd love to have something like that on wheels that I can move to different paddocks, too
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Don't know how to do plans that I could upload, but I'll take a couple more pictures of the pertinent areas and add some dimensions.Love this! Well, now that you figured it out going along, you'll have to back-track and make plans for the rest of us LOL! Truly, I'd really like to get something like this going. Usually, I have my dog hold them to me in a corner so I can grab and flip into a sit against my legs for this and that, but don't like to do it with pregnant girls etc. I'd love to have something like that on wheels that I can move to different paddocks, too
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