Demonstrate Sweep System Functionality

foreign [Music] so we have the option with the starter farm and ranch system and with any cattle handling system you have the option most likely of a sheeted system meaning it has metal sidewalls versus an unsheated system which would be open the sheeted system is a much easier system for the cows to work through they don't have those outside distractions and inherently the cow's head is going to kind of be down as he figures out his way or she figures out her way through the handling system right here so that's why we went with the sheeted sweep system it's easier on handling the cows now you'll notice the cows when we run them through in the next video their heads will be up and their eyeballs will be looking around like gazing around at what's going on but as we start working them through we're gonna work them through gently it's all about handling our cattle in a low stress environment in a gentle way this is the way the sweep system is designed so there's a door right here this is a big gated door and right in here we got a handle pull that handle back this handle has a catch on it so we're going to open it all the way up and our corral panels that we're getting ready to put up are going to be temporary corral panels so we'll have a corral panel on the back side of this so we can access this area behind us and we'll be able to hop over and shut the sweep system door right here eventually we'll build a permanent cattle handling setup right here but for now we're just doing temporary corral panels so the way the sheet system works the cow will enter in through the sweep right here and we'll bring this closed on them so we get to this point lock that back the gate will not push back so no matter how much the cows want to push back the gate's not going to push back so you've got six or seven cows in this area right now they're all in there and as you slowly close down the chute sweep system just like this as you close that down it forces the cow into a smaller and smaller area cows like to turn cows want to go this way if you ever approach a cow it's never going to walk right up and be like hey dude it's going to do this it's going to do this it's going to look this way so it's always turning cows are always turning when you