handling

Who makes custom handling facilities or knows where you can get ahold of handling equipment/ chute for elk. Thank you.

I am selling my handling system. This is a free standing system. Steel box tubing frames with black deer plastic walls. The roof on this is wood. Every box has a slide door for separating and the side wall door doubles as a access and pusher wall. Doors swing in and out of the box. The doors are...

Hello, we aren't exactly deer farmers but my mom has 4 pet fallow deer. They are all tame with her but only 2 can be handled by others. We need a deer handling system. Any ideas? I thought about tranquilizing but dont want the risks involved. Thank you Deanna

Looking to build a small handling facility with drop chute and boxes. Any plans or advice would be appreciated.

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I'm thinking about redoing my handling facility mainly my tunnel system. I currently have osb for the tunnel and bolted to a pole at each end of the plywood. I was on a budget when I built it lol. It works but not as well as it should and makes me nervous when there banging around in there. I...

I am sharing my pen layout and handling barn layout in hopes to help someone and encourage you to share yours to help others like me get ideas   scale on the barn is one square is 2' scale on pen layout is on square is 20'

I'm setting up a new barn and am looking for some handling equipment. Message or text me at 903-651-1849. Thanks

has anyone made a homemade deer handling hutch? Or know of any cheaper ones on the market?

I just purchased a mamma deer chute and three tunnel system boxes.  there is also several guillotine doors.  I will be building the shed around the facility so I have no real restrictions. any input would be great im a new farmer and have never moved deer before.  Will this even work? What Would...

Its about time that I attempt to build a handling facility and start directing my pen layout to the future facility. I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions on pen layout/handling facility layout or any regrets on how you wish you would have done something. Pictures would be very...

Finalizing an article on the Science of Deer Handling (science like Newton's laws- objects in motion tend to stay in motion, force is the combination of acceleration and mass, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction...) This just introduces some humorous (or serious) deer...

Does anyone here ai without access to a handling facility? What i mean, is it possible to breed cervically without a chute? The problem that i am running into is i bought my animals from a breeder and they pick them up to breed in the fall. The only semen that i can get is from bucks that they...

I am building a handling facility this year 24x35ft. Was just wondering if anyone had any layout plans that they could email me so I can look at just for ideas. I have visited numerous farms to check there facilities out and now have a pretty good idea of what I would like to do but I figured I...

I am designing my handling facility which is a 24x32 pole barn. I am a small farm with only 4 does so far. Three will be fawning this spring God willing. My question is approx. half of the barn is cement and the other half is a small gravel (1/2 to 0). I plan to have fawns come in and out of the...

Hi Guys: I am coming up on the final stages of building my handling facility and am looking for an opportunity to visit a farm when they will be running deer through their facility, preferably during TB and Bruc testing but also during antler cutting, treating, sorting for breeding etc. I...

Here is a idea of what we were thinking our handling facility is going to be on our new farm. I was wondering what everyone thought about it? We are open to all opinions please. Let us know the pros and cons to this set up. We were planning on having a 24'x24' building. The green box is the drop...

I have a small deer park and am considering installing some basic handling facilitities connected to a couple of paddocks by a raceway. Does anyone have any illustrations/drawings/photographs/ of such things. Thanks Grant

I don't know if I'm in the right forum to ask this question or not, but, here goes. I need to know what size handling pens you guys find that work best for elk. I'm talking about the 2 or 3 pens just before the squeeze. Thank You fr any help. Chuck

Has anyone ever tried one of the calming gels they give to horses before they ran their deer thru a handling facility?