Portable livestock corral with dual and single alley modes of operation, bud box capability, and transport safety bar

A portable livestock corral comprising:

• a towable frame of elongated character in a longitudinal direction, said towable frame having two ends of opposing relation to one another in said longitudinal direction, and first and second sides of opposing relation to one another in a lateral direction of transverse relation to said longitudinal direction;
• first and second sidewall structures of erect relationship to said towable frame at the first and second sides thereof, respectively, and thereby respectively denoting first and second sides of a longitudinally oriented alleyway delimited between said first and second sidewall structures;
• a collection of corral panels stowable in a manner carried by said towable frame for transport therewith, and deployable externally of the alleyway in cooperating relationship therewith to delimit at least one livestock pen from which livestock are admissible into an undivided section of the alleyway via at least one openable/closable entrance thereto;
• wherein the alleyway, in addition to said undivided section, includes a divided dual-alley section that spans longitudinally from said undivided section to a rear end of the alleyway and has a divider wall by which said divided dual-alley section is subdivided into two neighbouring alleys that run longitudinally alongside one another from said undivided section to the rear end of the alleyway, both of said neighbouring alleys terminate in respective rear exits at said rear end of the alley and both start at respective front entrances situated inside the alleyway at a rear end of the undivided section, where at least one of said respective front entrances is openable and closeable to said undivided section of the alleyway to enable selective admission of a livestock or human occupant to at least one of said neighbouring alleys from said undivided section, and closure of said at least one of the neighbouring alleys behind said livestock or human occupant once admitted.

A portable livestock corral comprising:

• a towable frame of elongated character in a longitudinal direction, said towable frame having two ends of opposing relation to one another in said longitudinal direction, and first and second sides of opposing relation to one another in a lateral direction of transverse relation to said longitudinal direction;
• first and second sidewall structures of erect relationship to said towable frame at the first and second sides thereof, respectively, and thereby respectively denoting first and second sides of a longitudinally oriented alleyway delimited between said first and second sidewall structures, said first and second sidewall structures having at least a first pair of aligned openings therein of aligned relation to one another across the alleyway;
• a first set of corral panels deployable externally of the alleyway outside the first sidewall structure thereof to cooperatively delimit a first livestock pen;
• a second set of corral panels deployable externally of the alleyway outside the second sidewall structure thereof to cooperatively delimit a second livestock pen residing across the alleyway from said first livestock pen;
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• a safety bar of length exceeding a width of the alleyway between said first and second sidewall structure and usable for mechanical constraint of the first and second sets of corral panels in stowed transport positions in which the first and second sets of corral panels are respectively folded up alongside the first and second sidewall structures at areas overlying the aligned openings in the first and second sidewall structures, said safety bar being removably insertable through a second pair of aligned openings in the sets of corral panels and the first pair of aligned openings in the sidewall structures to attain a working position spanning collectively through the alleyway, the sidewall structures and the folded sets of corral panels in the lateral direction, and said safety bar comprising a pair of stops usable at or adjacent respective ends of the safety bar in said working position to both block sliding of the safety bar out of said working position, and block outward swinging of stowed corral panels.