Animal Housing, Movement and Working Facilities Module 10

Animal Housing/Shelter Barns Sheds Natural shelter Ground Insulation

Barns Enclosed barns used –stable horses, –protect and facilitate treatment of sick or weak livestock, –milking small herds of milk cows. Most barns built prior to 1950’s. Current cost of materials prohibitive

Sheds

Natural Shelter

Ground Insulation

Livestock Movement Large stock trucks for long-distance movement. Stock Trailers for short-distance movement of small numbers of livestock. Horses for movement of large numbers of livestock short distances and movement in pastures

Trucking Cattle to Desert Winter Range

Stock Trailer with Coriente Cattle Unloading on Winter Range

Horse and Rider

Animal Working Facilities Cattle Squeeze Chute Corral and Sorting Alley Cattle Loading Chute Livestock Feed Bunks Hay Storage Shed Animal Scale Road Cattle guard Summer Range Corrals Water Tank and Trailer Electric “Hot Wire” Fence

Cattle Squeeze Chute

Working Alley and Sorting Pens

Loading Dock for Cattle Trucks

Cattle Feed Bunks

Loading Tractor and Hay Storage Shed

Weaned Heifer Calves Being Weighed on Scale

Cattle Guard on Forest Road

Summer Range Corrals

Water Tank and Water Trailer

Horse and Cow Barn