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<blockquote data-quote="yakker" data-source="post: 1310560" data-attributes="member: 23956"><p>I would also like to stress that you would want to get a cow with good temperament, like others have mentioned. You can probably tame anything down to a certain point but some only so far. Here's an example:</p><p>A couple years ago, my son was taming a heifer calf down for the 4H fair. Even though he was 10, he wanted to do everything himself. With him being so young, I wanted to be with him while he was working with the calf...but had a hard time keeping my hands off his heifer! So I picked my own calf so we could work together. To make it a challenge, I picked one of those calves that always had her head in the air, not a mean calf, but very scared and jumpy, didn't want any contact with humans. She took a lot of extra work, but I got her tamed down and could do everything my son could do with his calf, but...she still had that frightening personality. As long as nothing frightened her, I could trust her to not kick no matter what I was doing with her. As soon as the cat came around the corner or any little thing, she would spook light crazy and sometimes let off a kick. I loved this heifer, she would melt in my hand like butter after I got her caught but I never did change her personality and this wasn't even a mean one. I've had a couple mean ones...even a two by four wouldn't straiten out, I'd sure hate to try and milk one of those! :shock:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yakker, post: 1310560, member: 23956"] I would also like to stress that you would want to get a cow with good temperament, like others have mentioned. You can probably tame anything down to a certain point but some only so far. Here's an example: A couple years ago, my son was taming a heifer calf down for the 4H fair. Even though he was 10, he wanted to do everything himself. With him being so young, I wanted to be with him while he was working with the calf...but had a hard time keeping my hands off his heifer! So I picked my own calf so we could work together. To make it a challenge, I picked one of those calves that always had her head in the air, not a mean calf, but very scared and jumpy, didn't want any contact with humans. She took a lot of extra work, but I got her tamed down and could do everything my son could do with his calf, but...she still had that frightening personality. As long as nothing frightened her, I could trust her to not kick no matter what I was doing with her. As soon as the cat came around the corner or any little thing, she would spook light crazy and sometimes let off a kick. I loved this heifer, she would melt in my hand like butter after I got her caught but I never did change her personality and this wasn't even a mean one. I've had a couple mean ones...even a two by four wouldn't straiten out, I'd sure hate to try and milk one of those! :shock: [/QUOTE]
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