Circle C Ranches":3ugz6dvn said:
FredS":3ugz6dvn said:
My daughter's new heifer wants to run when she leads her. She doesn't have the strength to hold her back. How do break one from doing this? I have some panels and I thought about creating a little pen to work her in and then gradually increase the size. What do yall think?
Put the show stick in front of her face and when she trys to get ahead of you hit her on the nose it will take a few times for her to understand what she is doing wrong and what you want her to do.
I've decided some of you folks must be a lot tougher -and stronger- than me. I wouldn't DARE smack a "green" half-broke 800lb+ calf or one that had a bad habit of bolting. With my luck, the calf would either run over the top of me or do a 180 and take off the other direction. :roll: Only time I'd consider it would be on a calf that was broke and respected the rope enough that he'd stop when he hit the end of it (after jumping six feet in surprise)...but then on a broke calf there wouldn't be any need for that sort of treatment.
More than that though - I HAD a 1500lb cow with a bad habit of bolting, and she wouldn't give you enough notice to do
anything when she decided to run. 15 minutes of perfection, and then she'd take off. Anyone who could have stopped that animal then would have had my total respect...and I always kept TWO chains on her. One under the jaw, other through the mouth. Worked about 50% of the time. :lol: