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<blockquote data-quote="pdfangus" data-source="post: 529809" data-attributes="member: 6543"><p>By all means have them castrated. the sooner the better. If they are still on a bottle they can easily be banded.</p><p>This will alleviate the meanenss and agression problems.</p><p>They still have the potential to grow to be huge animals. That being said folks deal with huge animals every day. People ride 16 hand horses every day.</p><p></p><p>It sounds as if you are very inexperienced with cattle so I also woudl recommend dehorning as soon as possible. this is a simple procedure on calves and a local dairy farmer should be able to assist you. Animals with horns soon learn that the horns are useful and they put them to use to their advantage. If you do not know how to deal with this it can be deadly. A ton of steer that does not respect you is deadly anyway but the same animal with horns is like a terrorist in your yard.</p><p></p><p>You can have your animals gentled and you can handle them but they must respect you as the boss. As has been suggested get some halters and teach them to stand quietly tied now and tie them regularly and often throughout their early lives. They need to be broke to lead and in so doing learn that the humans get to call the shots. They can be made pets just as a horse can be made a pet but they must repect the humans space.</p><p></p><p>Adding females will be of no benefit in handling.</p><p></p><p>I would go to the rural heritage web site and do some reading about handling oxen. If they are to be permanent residents then they should have a purpose and they can be useful, fucntional, recreational, educational and entertaining.</p><p></p><p>We have an ex dairy farmer around here who makes a living out of going to events to demonstrate his ox teams and giving ox cart rides.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pdfangus, post: 529809, member: 6543"] By all means have them castrated. the sooner the better. If they are still on a bottle they can easily be banded. This will alleviate the meanenss and agression problems. They still have the potential to grow to be huge animals. That being said folks deal with huge animals every day. People ride 16 hand horses every day. It sounds as if you are very inexperienced with cattle so I also woudl recommend dehorning as soon as possible. this is a simple procedure on calves and a local dairy farmer should be able to assist you. Animals with horns soon learn that the horns are useful and they put them to use to their advantage. If you do not know how to deal with this it can be deadly. A ton of steer that does not respect you is deadly anyway but the same animal with horns is like a terrorist in your yard. You can have your animals gentled and you can handle them but they must respect you as the boss. As has been suggested get some halters and teach them to stand quietly tied now and tie them regularly and often throughout their early lives. They need to be broke to lead and in so doing learn that the humans get to call the shots. They can be made pets just as a horse can be made a pet but they must repect the humans space. Adding females will be of no benefit in handling. I would go to the rural heritage web site and do some reading about handling oxen. If they are to be permanent residents then they should have a purpose and they can be useful, fucntional, recreational, educational and entertaining. We have an ex dairy farmer around here who makes a living out of going to events to demonstrate his ox teams and giving ox cart rides. [/QUOTE]
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