A viewer asked if I’d share more details of my sheep working facilities after watching one of my shorts featuring it. My facilities are not ideal. There are plenty of shortcomings but they are super helpful and very functional. I believe you can never go wrong with plenty of strategically placed gates. My husband made them all out of scrap from our farm bone yard. I have a new appreciation of why he saves everything. I have an almost 90 degree turn in the alley which I knew was wrong at the time we built it but we had to work within the dimensions of existing infrastructure. It should have been a nice rounded sweep instead. To make it flow better I work with small flocks of sheep at a time. I have my work method down to a “science” and it has become quite stress free and efficient. I use a squeeze chute/table designed for sheep that is really helpful when I doctor or trim hooves. What a back saver! I also have an adjustable head stall/catch at the end of the alley at the sorting gates/pen so that I can sheer the sheep without wrestling them down. I used to have a commercial swivel sorting gate but after adding the squeeze there was no room for the swivel sorting gate. I trained my sheep to run through the alley and chute by leaving the end gates open to feed. My alleys should have been narrower, a mistake allowing the sheep to double up or turn around. Very regrettable but doable. I have more work to do on the facilities but they are functional for now.