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Cattle grid on country road. Cattle grids are usually installed on roads where they cross a fenceline, often at a boundary between public and private lands. [5] They are an alternative to the erection of gates that would need to be opened and closed when a vehicle passes, and are common where roads cross open moorland, rangeland or common land maintained by grazing, but where segregation of ...
Past 24 miles (39 km) at Carrs Corner, CR 527 turns to the right heading northeast while an alternate route to 527, CR 527A begins straight ahead. At 26.6 miles (42.8 km), Route 33 crosses at a traffic light in Manalapan. CR 527 heads north enters Englishtown. [1]
A traditional stock car resembles a boxcar with louvered instead of solid car sides (and sometimes ends) for the purpose of providing ventilation; stock cars can be single-level for large animals such as cattle or horses, or they can have two or three levels for smaller animals such as goats, sheep, pigs, and poultry.
Cattle drives represented a compromise between the desire to get cattle to market as quickly as possible and the need to maintain the animals at a marketable weight. While cattle could be driven as far as 25 miles (40 km) in a single day, they would lose so much weight that they would be hard to sell when they reached the end of the trail.
The Great Western Cattle Trail is the name used today for a cattle trail established during the late 19th century for moving beef stock and horses to markets in ...
Feeder cattle or store cattle are young cattle soon to be either backgrounded or sent to fattening, most especially those intended to be sold to someone else for finishing before butchering. In some regions, a distinction between stockers and feeders (by those names) is the distinction of backgrounding versus immediate sale to a finisher.
The station was established in 1883 when Richardson, Little and Carr took up a large area of land known as Austral Downs on the tableland. Initially the property was to be stocked with sheep. [2] By mid-1884 the property was stocked with 1,400 head of cattle and 140 horses. [3] A flock of 8,200 ewes were overlanded to the property later the ...
A curved "V" (tapered) race or alley leading to a covered crush. A cattle chute (North America) or cattle race (Australia, British Isles and New Zealand) also called a run or alley, [1] is a narrow corridor built for cattle that separates them from the rest of the herd and allows handlers and veterinarians to provide medical care or restrain the animal for other procedures.