Feedlot Design

Our feedlot has a capacity of 10080 head of cattle. It has a footprint of just over a square kilometer. Bellow is a list of key structural features.

• Steel pipe fence

• Continuous pour concrete feed bunks

• Proper drainage

• Separate feed and handling alleys

• Isolation dens for sick animals as well as a medical shed

• Two chutes that can handle both semi trucks and pickup trucks

• Holding pens for loading/unloading

• A handling system in a barn that can hold a tailler full of cattle (40)

• Heated storage by the handling system to store processing equipment

• Well that out enough water to have a safety buffer

• Water troughs next to each other under a light for ease of maintenance and installation

• Silage pit big enough to supply feed for a year

• Bins to hold feed mixture for about a week

• Settling pound for manure

• Fenced dead pit

• A truck scale

• An office on the road in to the farm for security

• Fenced off the public and employ areas

Over all our feedlot is designed in a way to lower animal and employee stress as well as promote ease of use.