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<blockquote data-quote="milkmaid" data-source="post: 382397" data-attributes="member: 852"><p>You've had her for EIGHT days, and you expect to be able to take her outside into an area she's never seen before, with scary objects and scary people she only met the week before, and you expect her to behave like a seasoned veteran?</p><p></p><p>Isn't going to happen. IMO, eight days is just barely long enough for them to settle in. You're expecting too much waaaaaay too soon.</p><p></p><p>Have you ever given cattle vaccinations, and seen them get to the point they know what's coming and are fed up with pain, and they start slinging their head at you as you get close? or you go to put in an ear tag on a cow that's had multiple owners, and she knows what's about to happen, and you can barely control her with a twitch long enough to put the new tag in? it's not that they're mean, it's simply that prey animals have a fight-or-flight response, and when they're in a position they cannot run, they fight back.</p><p></p><p>Wild cows and calves can do some pretty stupid things when they get pushed. When you start putting angry people in their space or closer than they're comfortable with... there's only one thing on their mind, and that's to get out of there. I've got one heifer here who literally goes ballistic, bellowing and running into things if you throw a rope on her.</p><p></p><p>Basically, you pushed for too much, too soon. You put the heifer in a position she couldn't get away from (she tried), and so you saw the "fight" response, and now you're calling her mean and unbreakable. You're reading her response wrong, and chances are both calves are wilder than you're used to working with and you're not taking the time to tame them down. Sorry if that's too blunt, but that's the way I'm reading it. JMO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="milkmaid, post: 382397, member: 852"] You've had her for EIGHT days, and you expect to be able to take her outside into an area she's never seen before, with scary objects and scary people she only met the week before, and you expect her to behave like a seasoned veteran? Isn't going to happen. IMO, eight days is just barely long enough for them to settle in. You're expecting too much waaaaaay too soon. Have you ever given cattle vaccinations, and seen them get to the point they know what's coming and are fed up with pain, and they start slinging their head at you as you get close? or you go to put in an ear tag on a cow that's had multiple owners, and she knows what's about to happen, and you can barely control her with a twitch long enough to put the new tag in? it's not that they're mean, it's simply that prey animals have a fight-or-flight response, and when they're in a position they cannot run, they fight back. Wild cows and calves can do some pretty stupid things when they get pushed. When you start putting angry people in their space or closer than they're comfortable with... there's only one thing on their mind, and that's to get out of there. I've got one heifer here who literally goes ballistic, bellowing and running into things if you throw a rope on her. Basically, you pushed for too much, too soon. You put the heifer in a position she couldn't get away from (she tried), and so you saw the "fight" response, and now you're calling her mean and unbreakable. You're reading her response wrong, and chances are both calves are wilder than you're used to working with and you're not taking the time to tame them down. Sorry if that's too blunt, but that's the way I'm reading it. JMO. [/QUOTE]
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