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<blockquote data-quote="1982vett" data-source="post: 765919" data-attributes="member: 7795"><p>Mine were where they should be. I penned my neighbors cattle for them. But feed bag training is my ticket. All I have to do is rattle a bag and honk the horn and most of them will follow you anywhere. Sometimes I'll use a couple small square bales of hay depending on the time of year. Majority of them are already accustomed to being moved from pasture to pasture (part of the training) and are eager to follow. </p><p></p><p>Course the bull understood the feed bag language too, and the heifer was usually in the middle of eveything and wasn't going to be left behind either. </p><p></p><p>Generally don't have trouble with my cattle leaving ("teenage bulls" being the exception). Bulls and calves are usually the culprits. Bulls because they are bulls and the calves just don't know any better yet. As with this heifer, she is a fence crawler but always went back until I ran a group of cows thru the pasture, then she took up with my herd instead of going home.</p><p></p><p>Several years ago I found a gap down between my place and the neighbors. Cattle were all mixed up. Happened to be early winter so I got after fixing the gap I got a roll of hay and led everthing onto the neighbors place then took the bale back to the barn. Waited a bit and went down with the truck and a bag. Mine came running ready to come back home. His didn't know what was going on. :lol:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1982vett, post: 765919, member: 7795"] Mine were where they should be. I penned my neighbors cattle for them. But feed bag training is my ticket. All I have to do is rattle a bag and honk the horn and most of them will follow you anywhere. Sometimes I'll use a couple small square bales of hay depending on the time of year. Majority of them are already accustomed to being moved from pasture to pasture (part of the training) and are eager to follow. Course the bull understood the feed bag language too, and the heifer was usually in the middle of eveything and wasn't going to be left behind either. Generally don't have trouble with my cattle leaving ("teenage bulls" being the exception). Bulls and calves are usually the culprits. Bulls because they are bulls and the calves just don't know any better yet. As with this heifer, she is a fence crawler but always went back until I ran a group of cows thru the pasture, then she took up with my herd instead of going home. Several years ago I found a gap down between my place and the neighbors. Cattle were all mixed up. Happened to be early winter so I got after fixing the gap I got a roll of hay and led everthing onto the neighbors place then took the bale back to the barn. Waited a bit and went down with the truck and a bag. Mine came running ready to come back home. His didn't know what was going on. :lol: [/QUOTE]
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