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Handling cattle: Who taught you ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ruark" data-source="post: 820507" data-attributes="member: 16279"><p>I've learned a lot from an old guy in his 70's who grazes some small brahmans at my place. He's a dusty old West Texas feller, been working cattle all his life. His approach is to do as little as possible in the pens. Sometimes he has a fiberglass stick about 4 feet long and as thick as a pencil. Sometimes not. But he'll have half a dozen grown cows in a pen and he just stands there like he's falling asleep. He'll slowly move one leg a couple inches, maybe an arm, and all the cows swoosh over here. And he'll stand there some more, then maybe move the other arm a little bit, and all the cows swoosh over there, or into the trailer, or whatever he wants them to do. It you don't watch closely, you might think he's not doing anything, like he's moving 'em around telepathically or something. I do know he's big on gentling his livestock as much as possible; almost all of them will eat out of his hand. The last thing in the WORLD he wants around is somebody who thinks he has to go in there whoopin' and hollerin'. In any case, there's a lesson to be learned there, and he has influenced me a great deal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruark, post: 820507, member: 16279"] I've learned a lot from an old guy in his 70's who grazes some small brahmans at my place. He's a dusty old West Texas feller, been working cattle all his life. His approach is to do as little as possible in the pens. Sometimes he has a fiberglass stick about 4 feet long and as thick as a pencil. Sometimes not. But he'll have half a dozen grown cows in a pen and he just stands there like he's falling asleep. He'll slowly move one leg a couple inches, maybe an arm, and all the cows swoosh over here. And he'll stand there some more, then maybe move the other arm a little bit, and all the cows swoosh over there, or into the trailer, or whatever he wants them to do. It you don't watch closely, you might think he's not doing anything, like he's moving 'em around telepathically or something. I do know he's big on gentling his livestock as much as possible; almost all of them will eat out of his hand. The last thing in the WORLD he wants around is somebody who thinks he has to go in there whoopin' and hollerin'. In any case, there's a lesson to be learned there, and he has influenced me a great deal. [/QUOTE]
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