That is for people with calves on feed?
Especially when there is already 50 to 60 km to look after.
The cookie duster look of most cowboy clinicians gives the security of authority and knowledge.
I built two Bud boxes. One that goes to the loading chute, and it works; one that goes to the squeeze chute, that one does not work. I think the second one is two wide, my sorting alley is 14' wide and I made it as wide as the sorting alley. I want to replace it with a sweep, but I have other projects that I want to get done first. To get cows to go down the single alley to the squeeze I had to put stock panel diagonally across the box; can only get about three cows in there, but at the same time I only have room for about three cows in the alley.
It's a good tool, but it's not right for everyone, and not everyone needs one.
The problem people have with the Bud Box is that if you have 1 animal that doesn't read the manual, you have no way of MAKING them go. And, yes I know, we would be stressing them!!! In real life, you don't always have a "herd" to work.
I understand that you are elated with this guys horse skills.
Did you get my PM?
Anything that made things clearer? If so, I wouldn't mind hearing it.
You do know how to do that cell phone block thing right? Hahaha, just kidding.
seems like to me if a cow will come to a rattling gate chain that would be no different than calling out or shaking a bucket as far as stress goes, it's reaction to a learned and liked stimulus. One is no different than the other. I will agree that most cattle will remain quieter when moved on horse back, but only if they have been around a horse and most cattle if they're used to a horse will remain as quiet with a horse as a single human in a pen and often quieter if they've been moved horseback a lot
Sorry its taken so long to get back to answering it. Been trying to figure out how to answer it in a way which doesn't sound condescending. Short answer is yes, with the caveat IF you've done your prep right in conjunction with the change in stockmanship. Do that and the calves will be in the same place so your not running around trying to gather them. If the pasture is remote, put your feed on the pickup and pull your horse in a bumper pull pickup. put out your feed then pull your trailer somewhere away from the feed so they don't associate it with being fed. Then all you have to do is start the calves towards the feed (from the side of the cattle closest to the feed), and as soon as you are confident the lead is going to hit the feed you're done. If you stay and watch them, by the second or third day, as soon as the lead hits the feed, the rest come in bucking and playing and spread out to eat with no competing for feed.
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You can use the stockmanship methods on foot at you do on a horse. As long as you draw them, or utilize fade turns instead of trying to get around them or put direct pressure on the head to turn them it only takes a couple of days to get them acclimated to a horse.
