M-5":ca3uenmw said:
AllForage":ca3uenmw said:
Here is another thread that just don't add up.
Can't get them out of the woods but wants them eat out of his hands .
The ranch is about 20,000 acres of high desert range land. We have some cows that hang by the headquarters water and they will eat hay out of our hands because they see us all the time. But the hay bill is getting pretty pricey and I would like to find something a little cheaper and something the cows like even more than hay if possible. The other cows that hang in the south end of the ranch in the thick trees wont even let me get close enough to them to throw them some hay. As soon as they see me coming they bolt for the woods.
I originally posted this thread trying to figure out how to get the wild cows out of the woods but all the recommendations about range cubes got me thinking about how I might be able to fix a different problem (my high hay bill). I hope this explanation helps this all to make sense. I won't be using the range cubes for the wild cattle (at least at first). In fact right now I'm looking into building trigger traps so I can catch them in a pen overnight and then feed them in the corral the next morning so they get used to being around me and maybe tame down a bit.