Nesikep
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4x4dually, that's the way I had PLANNED on sorting them, it's the way I usually do it... the calves were OK with the idea but the cows never bothered coming down into the smaller, lowest pen at all.
Sometimes when I have to run the cows through the chute (very rarely), I will halter one of my tame cows and put her in the crowding pen as 'bait'.. some cows just hate going into there, and having a cow there eating is very helpful.
Since pretty much every heifer I've kept in the last 6 years has been halterbroke by weaning time, and I leave them on the cows longer, I have to go through the weaning process on 2 batches of calves... except with the heifers I usually just halter them and lead them up into the corral.
Sometimes when I have to run the cows through the chute (very rarely), I will halter one of my tame cows and put her in the crowding pen as 'bait'.. some cows just hate going into there, and having a cow there eating is very helpful.
Since pretty much every heifer I've kept in the last 6 years has been halterbroke by weaning time, and I leave them on the cows longer, I have to go through the weaning process on 2 batches of calves... except with the heifers I usually just halter them and lead them up into the corral.