Portable Cattle Chute

Portable Cattle Chute LIVESTOCK Handling 16-6-34 I built this portable cattle chute last winter to catch a wild steer that was roaming wild in the bush. I tow it behind a tractor or truck. It rides on skids. The 8-month old steer had been running wild in a pasture for six weeks and was so wild that I couldn't get within 1,000 ft. of him. I had to catch him in the winter - there was no chance of catching him in the summer because 'he wasn't hungry" enough. The 5-ft. high cattle catcher looks like a squeeze chute. It has a wooden floor and a plywood trap door on back with a steel gate on front. It mounts on 12-ft. long skids. I put feed out on the ground in one spot for the steer for a week and then hauled the cattle catcher out to the same area and opened the gate, putting feed inside on the floor of the unit. The steer eventually walked into the chute and as he reached for the feed, he pushed against a nylon rope which caused a pin to pull out, tripping the plywood gate. Then we dragged the animal back home in the chute. (Lyle Spies, Rt. 2, Alma, Ontario Canada NOB lAO)

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