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<blockquote data-quote="grubbie" data-source="post: 1037904" data-attributes="member: 5478"><p>I think there can be a happy medium. When we raise replacements, the wife gets most of them, if not all, to eat cake (cubes) out of her hand. They don't let us pet them, but will take it from our hands. That is during weaning. Once weaned and back out on pasture, they are not hand fed anymore, nor are they a nuisance. But they are easy to work! Throw a bag of cake on the four wheeler and the whole herd will follow her from one county to another, nice and easy. Bottle babies, on the other hand....who can resist scratching a bottle babies ears when they are done with the bottle? They get too tame and can be a pain in the arse when they are older. It's kinda funny watching some of our neighbors "play cowboy",....whoop and holler and chase them at a run on horseback. Cows frothing at the mouth, running through fences....I have worked for people like that, I like my way better. Of course, if you are running 600 head it would be pretty tough to tame down all of your replacements like that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="grubbie, post: 1037904, member: 5478"] I think there can be a happy medium. When we raise replacements, the wife gets most of them, if not all, to eat cake (cubes) out of her hand. They don't let us pet them, but will take it from our hands. That is during weaning. Once weaned and back out on pasture, they are not hand fed anymore, nor are they a nuisance. But they are easy to work! Throw a bag of cake on the four wheeler and the whole herd will follow her from one county to another, nice and easy. Bottle babies, on the other hand....who can resist scratching a bottle babies ears when they are done with the bottle? They get too tame and can be a pain in the arse when they are older. It's kinda funny watching some of our neighbors "play cowboy",....whoop and holler and chase them at a run on horseback. Cows frothing at the mouth, running through fences....I have worked for people like that, I like my way better. Of course, if you are running 600 head it would be pretty tough to tame down all of your replacements like that. [/QUOTE]
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