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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 805514" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>I read a couple books and articles for the basics just as I was getting started. Then watched my experienced neighbor (he's been called the "Bull Whisperer"!) and learned from my vet when he comes to work the herd with me twice a year. Also just tried things out on my own.</p><p></p><p>One of the first books I read on the subject however was very helpful in making the point it is a lot easier to get cattle to come to you than it is to get cattle to go someplace they do not want to go.</p><p></p><p>When they associate you carrying a bucket with a sweet treat and come barreling out of the woods a 1/4 mile away when called and down the hill to the corral with even the stragglers and calves following to see what the others are excited about it makes life a LOT easier and more fun.</p><p></p><p>As far as tools, when in the corral I use a thing I bought at a farm show - a fiberglass stick with a plastic paddle on the end of it with something inside that sounds like a baby rattle. Works for looking wide and a gentle nudging slap on the rump.</p><p></p><p>Usually just grab a white topped Gallagher pigtail step-in post from the back of the ranger. As Dun mentions above and several of the books/articles on handling point out, you want to make yourself look "wide" to them with something visible. With one in each hand they do not try to turn and get past me when I am urging them down a lane etc. fwiw.</p><p></p><p>Jim</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 805514, member: 7509"] I read a couple books and articles for the basics just as I was getting started. Then watched my experienced neighbor (he's been called the "Bull Whisperer"!) and learned from my vet when he comes to work the herd with me twice a year. Also just tried things out on my own. One of the first books I read on the subject however was very helpful in making the point it is a lot easier to get cattle to come to you than it is to get cattle to go someplace they do not want to go. When they associate you carrying a bucket with a sweet treat and come barreling out of the woods a 1/4 mile away when called and down the hill to the corral with even the stragglers and calves following to see what the others are excited about it makes life a LOT easier and more fun. As far as tools, when in the corral I use a thing I bought at a farm show - a fiberglass stick with a plastic paddle on the end of it with something inside that sounds like a baby rattle. Works for looking wide and a gentle nudging slap on the rump. Usually just grab a white topped Gallagher pigtail step-in post from the back of the ranger. As Dun mentions above and several of the books/articles on handling point out, you want to make yourself look "wide" to them with something visible. With one in each hand they do not try to turn and get past me when I am urging them down a lane etc. fwiw. Jim [/QUOTE]
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