Deck Chair
Product Details
Premier’s Deck Chair safely holds large, adult sheep and goats (without horns) in a relaxed position securely, without injury. Can also be used to safely restrain pregnant ewes.
Allows use of both hands to:
- Trim Hooves
- Insert Ear Tags
- Apply Marking Paste
- Examine and Medicate
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Instructions/Diagrams:
Deck Chair Instructions 
Specs
- Length: 40"
- Adjustable width: 16" maximum and 10" minimum
- Bottom "legs": 14"
- Galvanized steel pipe with elastic webbing
- Included support rope for large/heavy sheep, which prevents elastic webbing from over-stretching
- Can be folded flat for easy storage and transporting with some disassembly
Benefits
1) Elastic webbing
- A thick weave of elastic shock cord has replaced the string net we used previously. The elastic web springs back into place when the ewe leaves the chair reducing the risk of entanglement. The webbing quickly hooks over built-in rivets for easy replacement. Included support rope can be used for heavy animals to prevent over-stretching.
2) Kick-plate
- This simple device prevents the animal’s hind legs from getting caught in the mesh. On occasion we’ve had to chase down a ewe that’s made off with our deck chair because of this very reason—not often, but it has happened.
3) Quickly make size adjustments
- When using our original chair, a wrench was needed to make side-to-side adjustments. These nuts have been replaced with finger-friendly wing bolts. Kick-plate adjusts via the same method.
How to Use
- Best location is in the corner of a small pen, as this allows catching the animal with the least effort. Drop the top of the chair over the gate or fence at a 45 degree angle.
- Catch the sheep by the head. Back the sheep into the chair. As the back legs hit the bottom crossbar, the rump (and most of the animal's weight) will fall into the webbing. Take care not to catch the rear legs in the 2 vertical chair legs.
- Complete the process by lifting the head upwards into the sitting position.
Precautions
Does not work well with horned animals. Their horns may become entangled with the webbing.
Note: Deck Chair Replacement Webbing (#807515) DOES NOT fit our Old Deck Chair (#807500).
Listed below are recommended optional components or related items. Your particular situation may require alternative recommendations. Please call and talk to our consultants if there are any questions at 800-282-6631.
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Gail S
For my hair sheep, it works pretty good. With 2 people it's very easy to use. With one not so strong woman (me) it's a bit more difficult to get them in the chair but I still couldn't do without it now that I've got it. I do like putting a rope halter on them if I'm working alone and securing their head back to the fence. Not needing to hold them up or down on the ground (I don't have a platform to put sheep on yet) is so much better on my body. I know I won't be without one of these again and have recommended it to a couple herding friends for their small numbers and the fact that they work alone sometimes.
Charlotte A
I have 2 sheep, both are Montadales, a large breed. Went to use the chair with the aid of the vet. Wanted to do it properly, the chair did not hold up. The farame bent due to the weight and size of the animal. Sadie is fine. However, the chair is in question. If I had small sheep it may have worked, I was really hoping it would because I need to do their hooves often and help is not always there.
Caryl B
The chair works just fine--a real handy item and a time saver. The problem is with the flock that I help take care of. The sheep are various hair sheep crossbreds, all different sizes, which means I can't just set the chair to one "right" size. The chair size can be adjusted simply, but not quickly enough for assembly line foot trimming of this flock (takes more time to adjust than to restrain and trim a few squirming sheep in a row in the chair), so I compromised with a one size fits all adjustment, which meant the smaller sheep could squirm around too much and the larger sheep were a little stuffed in--and you have to be sure the hip bone isn't caught on the rim when you dump those out--easy enough to do, just remember to do it, or the chair goes trotting off with the sheep. I pretty much solved the squirm problem by a slip halter with a clip on the lead end to restrain the head. Head doesn't move, body stays still. Also a size problem with the netting bag for a multi-size flock. For really small sheep, I attached a couple of snap clips to the bag so I can quickly take up the excess netting as needed. Most shepherds have a more homogenous sized flock or can easily separate the sizes, which I can't. Wish there was an instant size adjust chair out their for flocks like this. Definitely recommend to others. It is still a life saver for trimming this flock (about 125 head). Others with small flocks have seen me use the chair and now they want one, too.
Kristen B
An excellent product and very handy to have, especially for foot trimming. I have a small flock and I'm a "one person operation" so this is a very affordable alternative to having the chutes with a turntable, etc. Put it in a small working pen. Works really well, even on pretty large sheep. The only trouble I ever had was getting a really big sheep lined up to "sit" in it! A sheep is very easy to restrain once in it. Really easy to just "dump" the sheep out of it, by tipping it forward. If a sheep won't cooperate for foot trimming while standing in the fitting/grooming stand, he goes in the deck chair.
Kay G
I just recieved my chair last week and I love this chair. I own a small flock of Old English Babydolls and it worked perfectly. I trimmed feet,trimmed some tags, checked teeth on all my ewes all alone with no problems. I made one adjustment for my small sheep and that was to take up some of the slack in the webbing. Now I am going to try Hagrid,my ram.
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