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im just 15,and i have a replacment heifer that im going to sell/show at fair, and she needs to be halter broken, but shes to much for me and im the olny dairy/cattle :shock: person in my entire family. I need some tips to help me do it :lol: and have it not stress full on her. shes alredy stresed out enough, shes part way blind in one eye!!! :(
 
If you will go to the top of the site, click on 'Search', and type in halter breaking, you will find all kinds of stuff to help you. May also want to check out the show board. I hope this helps!
 
I personally don't know the first thing about halter breaking cattle. If you want to stick around until Milkmaid or some of the show people come online they can help you.
 
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Tieing up for long hours is the best way to halter break one. We have broke some pretty rank calves this year by this method.

Step one-Tie them about 15 feet away from food and water, and leave them there for about 1-2 days.

Step two-Walk them to food and water. The first time is the hardest, a few suggetions is have more than one person on the end of the lead rope, dally to a fence and ease on down, have someone behind you if stubborn.

Step three-Move them farther and further away each day. After a week or two they will get the jist of it and you can catch them every day to walk.

Step Four-leave rope halter on first few weeks. This make there neck sore and they lead better, and teaches them to respond to pressure.

A few things that you should remember are, you should follow step two more than once a day after the first day, calves need considerable time tied up until broke (time lessoning each day), and finally if in a pen with another calf, get them away from that calf every now and then.

I hope that this was helpful, and there are other ways of breaking them, but this is defanitly my favorite. No secrets just hard work.

Thanks Kaneranch

P.S. People on this board are busy, give them time.
 
I see there was only 12 minutes between your first post and your second post. If you don't have the patience to wait for someone to have time to help you and you don't have the energy or ambition to search for yourself - then I don't think you have the patience, energy, or ambition to actually halter break that heifer.
 
Farmhand":15gt3uqa said:
I see there was only 12 minutes between your first post and your second post. If you don't have the patience to wait for someone to have time to help you and you don't have the energy or ambition to search for yourself - then I don't think you have the patience, energy, or ambition to actually halter break that heifer.
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Well said!
 
kaneranch":1dw3fzd7 said:
Tieing up for long hours is the best way to halter break one. We have broke some pretty rank calves this year by this method.

Step one-Tie them about 15 feet away from food and water, and leave them there for about 1-2 days.

Step two-Walk them to food and water. The first time is the hardest, a few suggetions is have more than one person on the end of the lead rope, dally to a fence and ease on down, have someone behind you if stubborn.
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Maybe I'm reading this wrong, I don't know.

I agree with the first paragraph - tying a calf up is arguably the easiest way to teach them the basics of respecting a rope. Tie them and let them fight the rope and the post until they learn there isn't any way out of it. Very little work on your part. :)

Second paragraph - tying up without feed or water I can understand, but for 24 to 48 hours? and what about in the middle of the summer when the sun's beating down and temperatures are over 80'F?

Not on my place.

To me, 30 minutes a day every day of being tied and worked around achieves good results (too?). I haven't had problems with that method, and by the time I feel they're ready to start being led, they're tame enough as well they aren't going to bolt into the next county at the slightest unusual sound or movement on your part.

CACattleGirl99":1dw3fzd7 said:
im just 15,and i have a replacment heifer that im going to sell/show at fair, and she needs to be halter broken, but shes to much for me and im the olny dairy/cattle :shock: person in my entire family. I need some tips to help me do it :lol: and have it not stress full on her. shes alredy stresed out enough, shes part way blind in one eye!!! :(
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Sorry, but she doesn't sound like replacement material to me. Pet or nurse cow material (I take it she's dairy?) perhaps, but not anything that you'd run on a dairy. What's she weigh? calf is easy to halter break, 1,000lb heifer is not. LOL.

Halter breaking is stressful on a calf to some extent no matter what way you look at it.
 
thank you all for your help, and by the way to the comment that i dont have "the patience, energy or ambition to halter break that heifer" was rather offending, im rather hyper tonight(so thats why i posted my second post just 12 mins after my first,enery drinks tend to do that to you) and i have halter broken many calves, but not 2 yr heifers (big size diffrence)
 
yes she is dairy, shes not a calf (much bigger than me)not sure how much she weighs,all i know is shes bigger and stronger than me but not any more stubborn than me :D
 
I would get off those energy drinks then! Hyper doesn't belong with cattle! Maybe we know why you're having trouble with that heifer now.
 
i just had one energy dirink(my first), i was out with my friends at the movies so i needed more energy, movies make me sleepy
 
CACattleGirl99":1dmpdo4f said:
and i have halter broken many calves, but not 2 yr heifers (big size diffrence)
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I have halter broken 5 year old dairy cows before...difficult, yes, but it can be done. I like the rope-n-snub method best, and always, always make sure you have an "out".
 
you don't have the energy or ambition to search for yourself - then I don't think you have the patience, energy, or ambition to actually halter break that heifer
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Patience might be an issue but i wouldn't guess energy would be any problem (6 posts one subject in an hour) its like firecrackers going off. Ambition I wouldn't guess to be an issue due to
im the olny dairy/cattle person in my entire family.
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It takes ambition and grit to go against the grain and make your own road.

you can learn patience very rarely do people learn energy or ambition.
 
The energy and ambition comment comes from the fact that she didn't want to do a search and find the answers for herself. She wanted us to do her work for her.
 

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