Agreed. Here we would call those that run to the back of the pen "ranch cattle" likely have never seen anyone on foot until they left home.
SBMF 2015 said:
gcreekrch said:
You do realize that the huge percentage of feeder cattle end up owned by feedlots with 10s of thousands of cattle in them and that they have no care if you can pet your animals? They would rather them a little on the skittish side as they handle better through facilities and in a herd.
They are far more concerned with fleshing ability and performance than temperament.
Dark cutters don't work for any one. Cattle that bruise shoulders going through the chute don't go to the bunk regularly.
I understand what you are saying. I don't want pets either, but when I go to a farm to sort/grade a load of cattle it almost always goes better if someone has carried buckets every day to feed them as a posed to a feed wagon or belt feeder.
Cattle that run to the back of the pen when you open the truck door are harder to read, hide illness more, and just tend to tare up more stuff in the feed lot.
Correct, three classes in my world, ranch cattle that have basically never seen anyone on foot until they left home.
Farmer cattle, which include ours, gentle enough to handle any way you prefer from quads to horseback to foot.
And pets, the kind that sull up and won't move when pressured because they have no flight zone and no respect for people.
