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<blockquote data-quote="504RP" data-source="post: 1633780" data-attributes="member: 40335"><p>I don't know nothing about showing steers either. I have a grand daughter who i hope will be interested in showing steers when she gets older. So i hope to learn from you how you get a steer to lead.</p><p></p><p>Maybe this might help. The last bull i bought was raised as a show calf. The rancher i bought him from had kids and it had been sort of a family tradition showing cattle. This ranchers Mother told me that her son and his brothers and sisters showed cattle growing up too. He said he would help me and my grand daughter when she got big enough to start showing cattle.</p><p></p><p>Anyway. After i went and looked at the bull that was about 18 mpnths old and 2500 + lbs and decided to buy him.</p><p></p><p>I was on my way to pick him up and wanted to ear tag him before i turned him loose in the pasture. I called the rancher and ask if he had the facilities so that i could tag him and he replied sure. When i pulled up he had the bull on a lead rope scratcing him on the head. I had my tag and tagging gun. He lead the bull up between these two metal post with a sort of like cross bar that he latched to keep the bull from walking all the way through. And that was all. I asked the rancher if we were going to be able to tag him with no more than that to tag him . The rancher said sure. Gave him the tag and gun. He put the tag in. The bull flinched just a little like as if he would with a horse fly. Then the rancher leads the bull up into the back of my trailer and ties him with a lead rope like you would a horse. Closes the trailer door. I ask him how am i supposed to untie him and get that halter off. Just lead out like you would a horse and take the halter off. I was thinking yeah right. The bull had a nose ring in his nose. The rancher told me that was the most sensitive place on a bull his nose. He even showed me by taking a hay string and running it through the nose ring and leading him around with it. The rancher said it was part of the rules that they have nose rings to show intact bulls i think for safety reasons to be able to have more control over it.</p><p></p><p>Now he didn't have to use the nose ring when i picked the bull up other than showing me how it would work. And all he had to use was a halter and lead rope. I always use nose tongs when i a working cattle to control the animal to make it safer for me and the animal. The nose tongs seem to me to have a very similar affect that a nose ring does. And i would think you could use nose tongs to teach a young calf to lead in a humain manner. I don't know that to be fact. But might be something you might try. Let me know if you try it and if it works.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="504RP, post: 1633780, member: 40335"] I don't know nothing about showing steers either. I have a grand daughter who i hope will be interested in showing steers when she gets older. So i hope to learn from you how you get a steer to lead. Maybe this might help. The last bull i bought was raised as a show calf. The rancher i bought him from had kids and it had been sort of a family tradition showing cattle. This ranchers Mother told me that her son and his brothers and sisters showed cattle growing up too. He said he would help me and my grand daughter when she got big enough to start showing cattle. Anyway. After i went and looked at the bull that was about 18 mpnths old and 2500 + lbs and decided to buy him. I was on my way to pick him up and wanted to ear tag him before i turned him loose in the pasture. I called the rancher and ask if he had the facilities so that i could tag him and he replied sure. When i pulled up he had the bull on a lead rope scratcing him on the head. I had my tag and tagging gun. He lead the bull up between these two metal post with a sort of like cross bar that he latched to keep the bull from walking all the way through. And that was all. I asked the rancher if we were going to be able to tag him with no more than that to tag him . The rancher said sure. Gave him the tag and gun. He put the tag in. The bull flinched just a little like as if he would with a horse fly. Then the rancher leads the bull up into the back of my trailer and ties him with a lead rope like you would a horse. Closes the trailer door. I ask him how am i supposed to untie him and get that halter off. Just lead out like you would a horse and take the halter off. I was thinking yeah right. The bull had a nose ring in his nose. The rancher told me that was the most sensitive place on a bull his nose. He even showed me by taking a hay string and running it through the nose ring and leading him around with it. The rancher said it was part of the rules that they have nose rings to show intact bulls i think for safety reasons to be able to have more control over it. Now he didn't have to use the nose ring when i picked the bull up other than showing me how it would work. And all he had to use was a halter and lead rope. I always use nose tongs when i a working cattle to control the animal to make it safer for me and the animal. The nose tongs seem to me to have a very similar affect that a nose ring does. And i would think you could use nose tongs to teach a young calf to lead in a humain manner. I don't know that to be fact. But might be something you might try. Let me know if you try it and if it works. [/QUOTE]
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