A&A cattle scale, Home-made Alley Gate, and Alley Drop-Gate (raw video)

In this video I demonstrate how I capture my calves in the Alley to weigh them individually with my home-made Drop-gate and Sliding Alley Gate. I bought the scale from A&A scales on Amazon, built a frame for it, and set concrete paver-stones under the feet to keep it flat and stable. This is my second time using it, and I'm pretty happy with the results.

The first group of four calves were grazed off property for the past two weeks, and the second four calves were grazed on-farm.

@5:46 (second group) I realized the scale was still turned off...

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[Cake]

Oh snd one more thing. I have that same scaje. If you turn it on after they are in it. Wgeh theybsteo off it reverses abs shows the weight in negatives.

[justinpoe]

Would love to know how you built
That drop gate and the sliding gate

[joehairston]

Do you have a video of building the platform and mounting the scale ?

[erobertson]

Nice! Is the scale platform just a wide wooden board / or Decking boards?

[briandelk]

How well would that “check valve “ work on 1200 lb cow/bull?

[Cake]

If your trying to get a cow to move in a karyiviket direction. Walk that. Directoon. Thrn turn snd walk away frok the intended direction to give the cow a sense of you not pressuring them. Nine times out of ten they will go the way you wanted