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Eastern NE KS | This is our cow calf layout my father designed in the early 90's. Freestanding panels were not a thing we knew about back then. If needed, build your design with panels before constructing permanent. You may need to set a few posts to keep everything stable. But if you are in a setup hurry, you can try things out and get work done.
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East of the barn are 4 pens 15x60' to a 12'wide lane oriented n-s. East of this lane is a gathering pen with a gate to the lane. In my use I often have mixed cattle in the gathering pen. There is a larger gathering pen south of the first. Move a draft or all to one of the 15x60' and sort types, for example cows from calves.
The northern 15x60' has a windbreak fence on its north side. Parallel to this is an old 1970's WW working corrals that are modest in size. Cattle enter from the east head west and u-turn into the alley leading back to a cattle chute. The chute releases animals back to the 12' wide n-s lane.
The setup is fairly compact and recursive, meaning it loops back to itself to manage sorting before the chute or as mixed cattle are processed. Moving cattle from the two gathering pens into smaller is a 2 person or 1 person and a dog job. However, beyond that I work cattle by myself. For me that is an advantage. My dog knows the command 'out' or she gets tied up. Getting kicked once helped her learn 'out'.
To your question, your new tub-alley-chute combo would replace my chute alley and chute.
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