Kingfisher, as I was growing up, my Dad had cattle and I just pretty much watched the activity - a lot of guys hootin and hollering, throwing sticks and whatever else they could find, at the cattle to move them towards and into the corral. I watched my Dad pick up a 2x4 and wack a cow across the head. When I got my own cattle, I did the same thing. Then a neighbor, who became a good friend, would come buy, always with cold beer to share, and ask me why I was jumping around screamin at the cattle. So I asked him what I supposed to do to get them going where I want? He taught me about the boss/lead cow and about the peripheral vision they have and how calmness would lower stress. It worked! I later read a lot about what Temple Granlin (sp) wrote and I changed up my cattle handling facilities, changed my own behavior and it wasn't long before I could work my cattle by myself without too much fuss. Getting rid of tempermental cattle helps too. I thought all Brangus were tempermental. Not so.