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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm2" data-source="post: 117359" data-attributes="member: 2095"><p>Just call them (pick whatever sound you want to use as long as it is loud) whenever you get ready to feed them anything. The neighbor always ran cows up with 4 wheelers (or motorcycles) and spent all day chasing his with a half dozen men helping him. My grandfather would just call Hoooow-wuuuhhh once and 80++ whitefaces would jump to their feet and snap their heads toward the barn and started bawling even when they were 3/4s of a mile away. By the fourth hooow-wuuuuhhh the chow hounds had already galloped into the barn with every other cow and calf trailing behind them at a fast trot. After that it was just a matter of sorting the ones he wanted. He always made sure that when called they always got something (usually hay with a oats, cracked corn, and soybean meal top dressing) and when they got turned out of the chute they got something. They also got all of their winter hay and supplement and all of their minerals out of the same barn. They generally started getting daily treats two or three weeks before the herd was worked in May/June and two or three weeks before any planned sale. Of course he had very functional (if all hand made) holding/feeding facilities where he could split the group up 5 ways all sections complete with bunks and they were routinely sorted during winter according to how much supplement each group of cows was getting. We could get up the entire herd and sort out a trailer load of 20 calves off of their mamas in 15 minutes EASY and neither cow nor calf be upset until it got time to load the trailer and noone either person or cow was ever injured and I don't remember ever NOT getting a calf or cow that he wanted that day. Of course this was a herd that really culled only on fertility and attitude too, which made it almost idiot proof. Don't be surprised if the cows don't figure out your personal "call". Just don't quit on it and they will figure it out in six months or so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm2, post: 117359, member: 2095"] Just call them (pick whatever sound you want to use as long as it is loud) whenever you get ready to feed them anything. The neighbor always ran cows up with 4 wheelers (or motorcycles) and spent all day chasing his with a half dozen men helping him. My grandfather would just call Hoooow-wuuuhhh once and 80++ whitefaces would jump to their feet and snap their heads toward the barn and started bawling even when they were 3/4s of a mile away. By the fourth hooow-wuuuuhhh the chow hounds had already galloped into the barn with every other cow and calf trailing behind them at a fast trot. After that it was just a matter of sorting the ones he wanted. He always made sure that when called they always got something (usually hay with a oats, cracked corn, and soybean meal top dressing) and when they got turned out of the chute they got something. They also got all of their winter hay and supplement and all of their minerals out of the same barn. They generally started getting daily treats two or three weeks before the herd was worked in May/June and two or three weeks before any planned sale. Of course he had very functional (if all hand made) holding/feeding facilities where he could split the group up 5 ways all sections complete with bunks and they were routinely sorted during winter according to how much supplement each group of cows was getting. We could get up the entire herd and sort out a trailer load of 20 calves off of their mamas in 15 minutes EASY and neither cow nor calf be upset until it got time to load the trailer and noone either person or cow was ever injured and I don't remember ever NOT getting a calf or cow that he wanted that day. Of course this was a herd that really culled only on fertility and attitude too, which made it almost idiot proof. Don't be surprised if the cows don't figure out your personal "call". Just don't quit on it and they will figure it out in six months or so. [/QUOTE]
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