IAE Sheep feed barriers with access gate. Ideal for sheep penning, they give sheep individual feed space and less competition for meal
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There are two types of sheep feed barriers; horizontal and diagonal. The ODEL clip on feed trough can be attached to these barriers to feed sheep and reduce bullying at the trough.
Cow Mattress - Huber Technik 4GS Soft Bed System from O'Donovan Engineering the best soft bed system on the market made in Germany
Top of the range sheep handling equipment to provide maximum safety for both sheep and handler when working with the animal
Hinged feed Barrier Gates could make a big difference to your feeding system over the winter months, both in terms of the amount of labour involved in feeding and more feeding space.
A quick sample of how we rotationally graze our sheep.
The Commander Ag-Quip permanent custom-designed sheep yards are Australian made from Australian steel offering quality turn-key solutions for your sheep yard requirements.
Why all producers need a handling system… It never ceases to amaze us that so few US sheep producers have serious handling setups—and fewer still have a good one. Visit any sheep operation in England, Australia or New Zealand and you will find such setups—be it mobile or fixed. But not in North America. Here […]
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Sheephive - an Unconventional Sheep Shelter: Following on from making "The Playhive" for my goats, I decided that a larger version would make an unconventional shelter in one of my sheep paddocks. Link to "Goathive" https://www.instructables.com/id/The-Playhive-Z-Cl... Again I used the gener…
Electric fence is a psychological barrier, not a physical barrier. Animals have a tendency to move forward when first shocked. Having a barrier of substance on the opposite side of the fence during an animal’s first encounter will reduce this possibility in the field. You must train animals to know and respect electrified fence. This […]
There was a discussion on the Shetlands list about how to make an inexpensive shelter for sheep out of cattle panels, T-posts, and a tarp. We redid our T-post shelters this summer so I thought I would post these photos of the ram shelter. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words! This shelter is made with two cattle panels, you can use as many as you want. We've used this two panel size to house about 5-6 Shetland rams over the winter...it keeps them out of the wind and rain and snow and keeps their hay dry. A word of warning, if you have horned rams, be sure to watch for any poor souls who get their horns caught in the panels. They learn after a while to keep their heads clear, but getting stuck can be dangerous for them. To make this kind of a shelter, we start out by pounding a row of T-posts in, spacing them the height of the cattle panel apart. So for the two cattle panel shelter, we put in three T-posts about 4' apart. Then about 7' to 8' across from that row, we put in another row of three T-posts. (You don't want to go too far apart or the arch won't stand up to a heavy snow load or high winds.) Then we take a cattle panel and position it inside two T-posts, bow it down to fit inside the corresponding T-posts across from it. The tension holds it in place while we secure it to the T-posts before installing the next panel. We use twine to tie the panels to the T-posts. We tried plastic electrical strips in the past, but they can snap in cold temps. When all the panels are in place, we tie them together along the arch and then cover the whole thing with a heavy duty tarp. This year we decided to tie the panels farther up the T-posts for added resistance to sheep who may try to climb up the sides or rams who love the spring of the arches when they bash them. The first year we used this type of shelter, we were surprised at how the lambs scaled right up the sides playing a game of "king of the hill". Besides being dangerous (they were up pretty high!), they ruined the tarp in no time. We had to keep moving the rows of T-posts closer together to get a high angle that the little buggers couldn't climb. See the angle of the ewe's three panel shelter below. ;-)
