FarmIT 3000 and Prattley Weigh Crates

We have been working with Prattley Weigh Crates for the last 6 years, which has given us considerable experience with fitting EID readers to both manual weigh crates and the larger auto drafters.

The Prattley weigh crates are of course extreamly well made and have a world wide reputation. They provide both manual and automatic drafting solutions. Fitting EID readers is straight forward, though not neccessarily without problems. In our experience however these solutions work well and we have customers to prove it.

Prattley produce two weigh crates the small 3way drafter comes in both manual (right) and automated forms and the larger Mobile Drafter with either 3 way or 5 way automatic drafting unit.

The larger drafting weigh crate comes in both static and mobile versions. The picture on the left showing it on its wheels. It is lowered in seconds via a winch.

It's drafting capabilities are impressive with a rate in excess of 500 an hour, easily achieved. When used with an Tru Test XR3000 it provides drafting by weight, gain or animal life data charectoristics. With FarmIT we can even construct groups on the computer then load the XR3000 to draft the groups. 

Do Not Forget The Handling System!

When we talk to farmers regarding weighing, drafting etc, meny forget the need for the whole handling system to work well, not just the weigh crate or drafter. This also goes for recording sheep manually with eid readers.

1. Handing sheep in a race is much easier than in a pen, so first thing is a good race.

2. Driving sheep in is good, as long as they then don't turn round and run out, So anti backing gates are very usefull.

3. The Prattley Autodrafter can easily handle 500 sheep an hour, so you need space for those pens.