Calf Cage Photos

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