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Post by carragheendexters on Jan 19, 2015 18:59:15 GMT -5
Marg, yes it is my old school motto, or at least the abbreviation of it. Our motto was the whole verse, Matthew ch5 v16. I fondly remember reciting it every morning in chapel, gets cemented into your brain.
I love my Stubbie cattle panels that I have. Even though I only have 4 of them, it's amazing the uses that you find for them, and they are so portable and just the right height for Dexters. I have seen the Arrow panels in use for Dexters, and young heifers just go right between the bars and get stuck, then the portable panels are very portable, getting dragged about by the heifer. Someone local tried to use them to lock weaning calves in, not ideal.
Carol, I really like that IAE crush for Highlanders, is that the one you had? I also like the dairy cow one, wouldn't you love that for doing foot work.
I am just wondering what it would cost for shipping, that is the killer for here in Australia. if you could things direct it would be so much cheaper, Anything to do with cattle is so expensive here. Actually everything here seems more expensive than over in US, (except for meat and the price of cattle) suppose it has to do with our wages and incomes, so much higher than over there.
Good luck in your search Nativeviolet (M-A), let us know what you decide to do.
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Post by cddexter on Jan 20, 2015 10:50:17 GMT -5
nope, the yearing crush. I dehorned. Soooo much easier to manage, so no need for something to deal with the width. The price I quoted is very old now, but it included shipping. I'm sure it will be more expensive, but at the time it was 1/2 the conventional wild west lunge through crush available in north america. It will probably still be relatively less. cheers c.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2015 1:25:57 GMT -5
Thank you for your input. After looking at various cattle crush options, we eventually decided on a standard Norton crush which we were able to look at and buy locally and which is made in Victoria. www.nortongates.com.au/standard_crush.html. We discussed with our vet which one would be suitable and that was helpful too eg he said it's best to have it open to the left in case of the need to do a caesarian. Not something anyone else had referred to. As it is, the unit we're getting can open both sides and has a squeeze gate and a bar you put in across the back; also the baulk gate at the front came standard. The vet considered with smaller and more tame animals that the addition of the vet unit wasn't needed. There's a 4-6 week wait till the company can supply so there's high demand. We went with the standard rather than some cheaper economy models as we considered if we were going to spend so much money we at least wanted the thing to do the job! My husband will build the yards. Of interest to someone in Australia perhaps, IAE's reply to me from the UK said they "unfortunately have no Australia distributors however it is a market we are desperate to get into", so if there are any Australians out there who are interested they could contact http://www.iae.co.uk. There's a supplier in New Zealand so we could have arranged shipping from there had we wished to. Now to designing those yards! Cheers.
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Post by rawlingsdexter on Jan 22, 2015 2:59:52 GMT -5
We have a full size crush and have adapted it to fit our Dexters and smaller calves by tying some tyres to the inside of the race. It stops cattle moving side to side and makes Ai or blood testing easier for our vet.
Good luck with your cattle
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2015 23:35:35 GMT -5
Good idea, Marg. Thanks.
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Post by cddexter on Jan 28, 2015 14:52:28 GMT -5
Came across David's card looking for something else. Anyone interested in contacting IAE, the owner's name is David Klucznik, and the address (was) Riverside Works, Macclesfield Road, Leek, Staffordshire, England ST13 8LB. Very nice man. I tried to put together a contract with them for North America, but the very year I did it, the closest big livestock equipment dealer did a big advertising push, hitting all the shows with demo models. All I had was photos, and (I suppose not too surprising) most men loved the Powder River equipment and thought the quiet, gentle, easy to use, not get the animals all fired up equipment I was promoting was sissy. Powder River had a big ad showing a steer lunging through the chute, trapped mid flight by the headgate. owello. I guess I wasn't cut out to be an entrepeneur. cheers, c.
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