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The invention is a utility trailer incorporating a flatbed trailer combined with a detachable stock trailer shell, a removable center divider and a removable fabric roof cover, allowing use of the trailer as an open flat bed, an open stock trailer with one or two stalls, or a covered stock trailer.

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1. A convertible utility and stock trailer utilizing a base flatbed trailer with detachable components for the transport of livestock, the invention comprising:a. the flatbed trailer having a trailer hitch, a floor, a perimeter railing and at least two two-wheeled axles; b. a stock trailer shell hav

1. A convertible utility and stock trailer utilizing a base flatbed trailer with detachable components for the transport of livestock, the invention comprising:a. the flatbed trailer having a trailer hitch, a floor, a perimeter railing and at least two two-wheeled axles; b. a stock trailer shell having a contoured front portion, two side panel portions, an upper perimeter and a bottom perimeter; c. a removable center divider panel attached to the stock trailer and to the floor of the flatbed trailer; d. a removable fabric roof cover attached to the upper perimeter of the stock trailer shell; and e. a means of attaching the bottom perimeter of the stock trailer shell to the floor of the flatbed trailer, said means further comprising a plurality of shell clips having an upward angled retaining tab, the shell clips extending from the bottom perimeter on the contoured front portion and two side panel portions of the stock trailer shell; a corresponding plurality of clip receivers mounted within the floor of the flatbed trailer, the shell clips being received within a slot provided in the clip receivers, the clip receivers also having two arched hoops; and a plurality of clip pins, having an insertion end with a hole to receive one of a plurality of wire cotter pins, inserted and retained within the arched hoops by the wire cotter pin, the placement of the clip pin in the arched hoops locking the upward angled retaining tabs of the shell clips within the slots of the clip receivers.