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<blockquote data-quote="Victoria" data-source="post: 289371" data-attributes="member: 1258"><p>At least half of our cows are tame meaning you can walk up to them on the field and pat them. The other half you can get within three to five feet of, to me that is a normal cow. There are pluses and minuses of having a lot of really tame cows around. They don't chase as well as a herd like the wilder cows do. So for shot day you need to have a lot of patience and some oats on hand. The other 364 days of the year makes up for it though in my book. Someone has a crack in their hoof you can walk up and coppertox them on the field. That holds true for any other time you want to find out what's going on with their health, they don't need to come to the corral unless it is a vet call. We are switching to purebred Red Angus and that means weighing at birth. We don't have a great set-up for easily separating the baby so I like to just be able to ear tag and weigh in front of the cow. I've found cows you can pat are less likely to freak out when you touch their calves. They stay far calmer for AI'ing and there is no problem getting them in the chute in small numbers. A bucket of oats and they will follow you off a cliff. It actually takes less time to get 10 of our really tame ones through the chutes than it does to get 10 of our normal cows. </p><p>A few years ago one of our commercial "pets" had a very tall calf that was having a problem looking low enough for the milk. It was a freezing cold day. With a normal cow this would mean either stealing the calf feeding it and then hoping with more strength it would figure stuff out or getting the cow and calf in from the pasture putting her in the chute and fighting with them both. Instead I walked up to her in the field and help position the calf correctly, no stress and less time. It doesn't happen often but when there is a problem I like dealing with my tame cows. I've had my days of running cows over the field and I'm sick of it.</p><p>I've had cows both ways and for our set up here life is simpler if they are really tame. I've got to be able to do everything I need to do with them alone. We also don't have a fancy set up with fifty pens that work so well that you never actually have to go in with a cow to do what you need to. </p><p>It depends on your management style and set up as to what kind of cows work best for you. The point is to get the job done and for me that is easier to do with my calm cows.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Victoria, post: 289371, member: 1258"] At least half of our cows are tame meaning you can walk up to them on the field and pat them. The other half you can get within three to five feet of, to me that is a normal cow. There are pluses and minuses of having a lot of really tame cows around. They don't chase as well as a herd like the wilder cows do. So for shot day you need to have a lot of patience and some oats on hand. The other 364 days of the year makes up for it though in my book. Someone has a crack in their hoof you can walk up and coppertox them on the field. That holds true for any other time you want to find out what's going on with their health, they don't need to come to the corral unless it is a vet call. We are switching to purebred Red Angus and that means weighing at birth. We don't have a great set-up for easily separating the baby so I like to just be able to ear tag and weigh in front of the cow. I've found cows you can pat are less likely to freak out when you touch their calves. They stay far calmer for AI'ing and there is no problem getting them in the chute in small numbers. A bucket of oats and they will follow you off a cliff. It actually takes less time to get 10 of our really tame ones through the chutes than it does to get 10 of our normal cows. A few years ago one of our commercial "pets" had a very tall calf that was having a problem looking low enough for the milk. It was a freezing cold day. With a normal cow this would mean either stealing the calf feeding it and then hoping with more strength it would figure stuff out or getting the cow and calf in from the pasture putting her in the chute and fighting with them both. Instead I walked up to her in the field and help position the calf correctly, no stress and less time. It doesn't happen often but when there is a problem I like dealing with my tame cows. I've had my days of running cows over the field and I'm sick of it. I've had cows both ways and for our set up here life is simpler if they are really tame. I've got to be able to do everything I need to do with them alone. We also don't have a fancy set up with fifty pens that work so well that you never actually have to go in with a cow to do what you need to. It depends on your management style and set up as to what kind of cows work best for you. The point is to get the job done and for me that is easier to do with my calm cows. [/QUOTE]
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