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Mastering the Art of Cattle Yard Design

Mastering the Art of Cattle Yard Design

Designing an efficient cattle yard system is a complex but rewarding task that involves careful planning and attention to detail to ensure the well-being of your cattle and the productivity of your operations.

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Managing the Risks of Cattle Handling: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing the Risks of Cattle Handling: A Comprehensive Guide

Cattle handling involves diverse activities across settings like paddocks, feedlots, and during transportation, each carrying inherent risks. As such, ensuring the safety of both livestock handlers and the animals is crucial to the success of your farm.

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Your Guide to Effective Cattle Yard Design

Your Guide to Effective Cattle Yard Design

Designing efficient and sustainable beef cattle yards in Australia requires a comprehensive understanding of both the environmental conditions and the specific needs of cattle. This task involves careful planning to ensure animal welfare, worker safety, and operational efficiency.

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The Ultimate Guide to Designing Safer Cattle Handling Systems

The Ultimate Guide to Designing Safer Cattle Handling Systems

Safety is the foremost concern when it comes to designing cattle handling systems, prioritising the well-being of both handlers and livestock. If you’re experiencing apprehension and frustration during the cattle handling process within your current system, it may be an opportune moment to contemplate a new design or an upgrade. Even the implementation of a few thoughtful changes has the potential to revolutionise your cattle handling experience, transforming it from an arduous task to a finely tuned, smoothly operating machine.

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Strength and Durability: The Importance of Steel in Farm Fencing

Beef cattle farming makes up a significant portion of Australia’s agricultural industry, and it’s no secret that maintaining healthy and well-contained livestock is key to a farms profitability. A key area of consideration when it comes to cattle farming is ensuring that cattle remain within designated areas and that any pests or predators are kept out. This is where having robust farm gates and fencing is important and choosing the right material is crucial.

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15 Years of Steel Fabrication

15 Years of Steel Fabrication

With over 15 years of experience, Steel Supplies Charters Towers has been continuously helping farmers and locals in regional Queensland to build infrastructure that has stood the test of time and harsh Australian climate.

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How To Create The Perfect Cattle Race

The cattle race is arguably one of the most important parts of a cattle yard, ensuring safety, cattle handling efficiency and minimising stress. There are many different design elements that go into a successful cattle race, with many dependent on the type of farm, the natural behaviour of cattle, the type of cattle being processed and the main purpose of the yard.

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The 5 Biggest Cattle Yard Design Mistakes & How to Avoid Them

When you’re designing a good cattle yard, it can provide a number of benefits to your farm, that make managing your herd a lot easier. The opposite is true as well, as a poorly designed cattle yard won’t just make life more difficult for your cows, but also your cattle handlers and even you. Unfortunately, many farmers make a number of big cattle yard design mistakes that increase the risk of injuries and accidents that can occur while handling cattle.

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Cattle yard design should be used to increase the safety of your staff and livestock. Designs should also maximise workflow and ease the completion of tasks.

Maximising Safety Through Cattle Yard Design

Avoiding a serious accident is always a top priority on any farm. Despite this, Australian cattle yard design frequently fails to address a number of concerns effectively. Working with animals that can weigh over a tonne means you need to always pay attention to safety. You need to think about this for both workers and cattle. Having good foresight means you are prepared for the worst-case scenario, no matter how unlikely. A reliable design meets every need, making work easier and also maximising the safety of livestock and handlers.Read more

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