Stock box

ben70b · Mar 23, 2016

I gotta go get six little pigs Saturday morning and am thinking about building some kinda livestock box I can slide in the bed of my truck rather than drag the 16' trailer 35 miles and back. Anyone have any pics of their homemade stock boxes?

pat sublett · Mar 23, 2016

You could put them in a toe sack. That is where the term "Pig in a Poke" originated.

Ron-MO · Mar 23, 2016

Build one from hog panels. I made a small one out of cattle panels to slide in my pickup when I was raising boer goats.

RayP(MI) · Mar 23, 2016

Saw a nice temporary travel stockade fashioned from wooden pallets, tied together with baler twine. Fit between wheel wells on standard PU box.

Nick167 · Mar 23, 2016

Neighbor use to just put a cap on the bed of his truck

Greg1959 · Mar 23, 2016

ben70b- Heck, do you have a car? I'd just put a trap/plastic down to cover the trunk carpet and haul them home in the trunk. Ya, did say they were "Little pigs", so I'm guessing 10 pounders...

Pair-a-dice farm · Mar 23, 2016

(quoted from post at 23:10:29 03/23/16) Build one from hog panels. I made a small one out of cattle panels to slide in my pickup when I was raising boer goats.

ditto

OH Boy · Mar 23, 2016

How about 2 or 3 dog crates?

IA Roy · Mar 23, 2016

Not sure what the weather is in your neighborhood, but if the air temperature is cooler than they are used to, be sure to keep them from getting chilled and sick. Use plenty of bedding and cover to minimize the wind chill. If they are not used to cool weather, put yourself in their place and figure out how to protect them as you would yourself.

Jim in Ma. · Mar 24, 2016

I use four sections of hog panels held together with hose clamps, cut to fit in the pick-up. When not in use it will fold flat for storage.
Make sure you don't give them so much space that they can fall and get hurt when you stop and or turn.

GeneMO · Mar 24, 2016

How big are the pigs? I have an extra pickup tool box. I also a few years ago bought a black plastic box, with locks to hauls stuff around in. Now I have one of those hard plastic covers for the truck bed.

Too bad we cant all get things together. I had built a slide in set of stock racks back in the mid 70's (FFA shop project) . We use them a lot, even hauled fat cattle to the locker plant in them. Neighbor borrowed them 4 or 5 years ago to haul 4H pigs to the fair. His kids had grown up, had no need of em and brought them back last summer. They had some rust issues, and would have had to been repaired, and I had no forseeable need for them, so I ran over them with the dozer to flatten them out and put em in the scrap pile to be recycled.

Gene

cjd12000 · Mar 24, 2016

No pick but just a cube built on a pallet with a few holes and a door. Fits two calves and when not in use sits on a concrete cube about the height of the truck bed so easy on and off.

Brown Swiss · Mar 24, 2016

Just borrow one of your in laws cars and put them in the back seat!

Kansas4010 · Mar 24, 2016

Slide in stock racks used to be common around here. Before everyone had stock trailers they would use grain trucks with racks installed for multiple cattle. For just a cow or 2 slide stock racks in the back of a pick up was used. I still see them once in awhile at auctions and usually sell for scrap. I still have the one my dad used sitting around here. It's sitting in the way and I've thought about hauling it off but haven't ever got around to it. I don't have a picture of it but I can get one if you want.

J.Wondergem · Mar 24, 2016

Just take out the back seat of your car, and put them in there. Just power wash it out afterwards. LOL.

ben70b · Mar 24, 2016

Fortunately my in laws live in Arizona and I in Illinois, otherwise I would borrow their car and do as you say

ben70b · Mar 24, 2016

I have a sneaking suspicion you are in Kansas, and I am sure I am in Illinois, otherwise I would try and purchase your stock rack

Hogleg · Mar 25, 2016

Don't use a dog crate. Most are just snap together. We lost a pig (shoat) last year in one. He was a 50 lb one and used his nose to push thru the joint at the top. Never found that pig. Went flying out of the truck at 50mph on the county road.

I have a solid built box made from goat panel with a wood floor and locking door. Use it for pigs and taking sheep to market. Works very well. Will take a pic in a little while when I go out to do the morning chores.

John

Hogleg · Mar 25, 2016

Ben70b,

Just noticed you are in Illinois. If you are near Salem, you can borrow my box.

John

W_B · Mar 25, 2016

What ever you do, put a top on it. Before we put a top on our pickup truck carrier we had a pig jump out coming back from our county fair. Luckily we were close to home and we just walked him the rest of the way.

ben70b · Mar 26, 2016

3 hrs and 15 minutes away! I appreciate the offer tho! I am near I-80 and I-39

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