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<blockquote data-quote="Flynengr" data-source="post: 1850990" data-attributes="member: 32884"><p>I most certainly don't have it all figured out, but this is what seems to work for us. I sell 10-12 4-H/FFA steers to local kids for fair projects. We put them in the halter and give them some tugs coming out of the chute, it's good to have some high school aged boys to take on this challenge. We work them to a stop and let them drag the lead for a week where they start stepping on it and respecting the lead, then we start with human interaction more regularly. Within a week or two thereafter we usually get them taking a step or two toward us to release the pressure, at that point we strip the halters and keep bucket feeding them with the gentling process. We let them callous up for another two weeks or so then get them back in the halter. Any that are still fighting us hard at that point go to the freezer beef pen. We make a point that we sell halter safe steers, not halter broke. We want our buyers to work with the steers and train them, that's all part of the experience, but I don't want to sell a steer to an entry level 4-H kid I have to worry about having a wreck with. Just my two cents.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Flynengr, post: 1850990, member: 32884"] I most certainly don't have it all figured out, but this is what seems to work for us. I sell 10-12 4-H/FFA steers to local kids for fair projects. We put them in the halter and give them some tugs coming out of the chute, it's good to have some high school aged boys to take on this challenge. We work them to a stop and let them drag the lead for a week where they start stepping on it and respecting the lead, then we start with human interaction more regularly. Within a week or two thereafter we usually get them taking a step or two toward us to release the pressure, at that point we strip the halters and keep bucket feeding them with the gentling process. We let them callous up for another two weeks or so then get them back in the halter. Any that are still fighting us hard at that point go to the freezer beef pen. We make a point that we sell halter safe steers, not halter broke. We want our buyers to work with the steers and train them, that's all part of the experience, but I don't want to sell a steer to an entry level 4-H kid I have to worry about having a wreck with. Just my two cents. [/QUOTE]
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