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NE Indiana | Replacing the feeding alley in my old cattle bank barn. I have a bunch of treated 2x6 boards from another project and was thinking of using those to build the feed alley dividers.
Main question is whether treated lumber is safe to use for this with beef cattle? I'm certain they'll lick the boards from time to time, will the lumber treatment be enough to harm them?
Next question is whether a 2x6 is strong enough to hold up to the abuse of cattle pressing against them etc? The old feed alley was made from native true 2x4's which were strong as could be, but with the redesign I'm doing they had to go.
Other option is to find some quality metal feed panels that don't already have the 12-18" rise before the feed openings because all of this will be sitting on top of an 18" concrete wall already.
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Treated lumber for cattle feeder panels
