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SW MN | You said you had 2000 head curtain barns, so I'm going to assume that you load out of the center of the building. Pigs go down the alley to the center, through the door to the "load out room" and then make a 90 degree turn to go out the outside door and up the chute. You said that you have trouble getting them to go out the door to the "middle room" which we call the "load out room". What we did was make a gate that fits behind the door frame and is wide enough to kind of wedge between the door frame and the end of the pen gate. We wire this gate in the doorway of the room we are not loading out of (obviously) and tie that door open. If there are pigs on that side we let a pen close to the door out, usually the second one from the door. This way when you are running the pigs down the alley they can see other pigs or at least all the way to the other end of the barn and don't feel like you are trying to run them into a wall (the opposite closed door to the other room). We have found that if you take 4 or 6 at a time and keep them moving they usually only hesitate at the door. Of course, some days you seem to fight them more, and there are always those few that have their head on the wrong end and refuse to walk in the right direction.
Now if your barn isn't set up this way, then everything I just posted doesn't help at all! | |
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