Operate the Squeeze Chute

handle all the cows that we have right now entrance to our squeeze chute right here so there are handles numerous handles back here that we're gonna pull this one opens up the entryway door okay there's an entryway door there you'll see it move just a little bit so that opens and closes our chute okay there's a notch right here so cow comes in comes through close that down i want to be as gentle as we can we don't want a whole lot of beating and banging because that freaks a cow out a low stress handling situation is what makes a cow happy okay so we have all sorts of little ways to palpate our cows we can go in through here and do a preg check all these open up so if we've got to band our cow or we got to do a preg check we can go in through the palpation area right here and we can prank check and or band a steer this is called a squeeze chute because it squeezes the cow this is the squeeze handle right here cow comes in it's wide open i reach right here and i pull down see that it squeezes in on the cow squeezing its belly and making it comfortable the cow's head will be out the head gate right over here and this is where we'll be putting ear tags in and checking the cow's head if the cow wear have pink eye or something like that and you need to put a medicative treatment on that's where you do that right there so we disengage a handle right here and open this guy up and that's how we let the cow out the cow will come out and either go into a trailer right here or back out into the pasture away from the other cow so we've got all the cows pinned up and we slowly run every one of them through we've got 29 cows and calves and steers and bulls here on the farm this is how it closes it's also spring loaded so it closes just like that a little bit of water in there so that's how the whole squeeze chute works with the exception of one more thing there's a rope right here so if we don't want to release a cow say we're loading them into a trailer and this cow that's in the squeeze chute we don't want in the trailer we want that cow back into the pasture we will squeeze this handle right here and the side will open up and out goes the cow right back into the pasture so you got two options you can load up right here or you can release them back into the pasture right there the way we're going to set this up is where we can load them up and or release from the front and or the side then you just pull this and that latches it all back into place that's how this…