Below are photos of the calf cage Don built last summer to bring newborn calves out of the pasture. These photos are to illustrate an article I wrote for Self-Reliance Magazine (a superb spinoff of Backwoods Home Magazine), and are posted so the editor can choose which ones she wants to use.
Editor: Photos 17 through 25 are low-resolution only. Everything else is high-resolution.
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Photo 3 -- Corners are screwed together
Photo 4 -- Calf cage, opened. The roof is hinged in the middle. Horse blanket on the floor.
Photo 5 -- Calf cage, opened.
Photo 6 -- Calf cage, opened part-way
Photo 7 -- Door folded back and resting in open position. Note corner bracket for strength, shelf bracket for strength.
Photo 8 -- Roof hinges.
Photo 9 -- Calf cage with door open
Photo 10 -- slatted sides, some of which came from the old bed frame
Photo 11 -- Hinge in roof
Photo 12 -- Hinged roof
Photo 13 -- Door in "down" position; note unmovable OSB base used to strengthen structure
Photo 14 -- Side made from bed frame
Photo 15 -- Calf cage
Photo 16 -- Calf cage
Photo 17 -- Newborn calf peeking through cage slats: "What's going on?"
Photo 18 -- View from the tractor, driving home with calf cage on the tines
Photo 19 -- View from the tractor, driving home with calf cage strapped to the tines
Photo 20 -- Don driving the tractor with the calf cage strapped to the bucket tines
Photo 21 -- Curious cows following the tractor with a calf in the calf cage
Photo 22 -- Curious cows following the tractor with a calf in the calf cage
Photo 23 -- Curious cows following the tractor with a calf in the calf cage
Photo 24 -- Curious cows following the tractor with a calf in the calf cage
Photo 25 -- Strapping the calf cage to the tractor tines
Photo 28 -- Curious cows (and one horse) following the tractor with a calf in the calf cage
Photo 29 -- Curious cows following the tractor with a calf in the calf cage
Photo 30 -- Curious cows following the tractor with a calf in the calf cage
Photo 31 -- Curious cows following the tractor with a calf in the calf cage
Photo 32 -- Curious cows following the tractor with a calf in the calf cage
Photo 33 -- Curious cows following the tractor with a calf in the calf cage
Photo 36 -- Transporting a newborn calf back from the pasture
Photo 37 -- Curious cows following the tractor with a calf in the calf cage
Photo 38 -- Curious cows following the tractor with a calf in the calf cage
Photo 39 -- Curious cows following the tractor with a calf in the calf cage
Photo 40 -- Curious cows following the tractor with a calf in the calf cage
Photo 41 -- Curious cows following the tractor with a calf in the calf cage