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<blockquote data-quote="Ratfish" data-source="post: 274310" data-attributes="member: 4642"><p>Please do, I'd like to have some idea of what my steer will look like at a larger size. </p><p></p><p>From my extremely limited experience of only a few weeks I will say that my tigerstripe acts like a completely different animal than the others. I have observed the black-tailed deer on the property a great deal over the years and I would say that he acts a lot more like a deer than a steer. He's just very alert and always the first one to notice something new in his surroundings and the last to stop watching it. </p><p></p><p>I think the problem is that people don't want a hair-trigger animal spooking their herd. What I have found though is that just as one nutcase can spook them, one real calm one can send a positive message to the nutcases. For example: when we first got these steers I couldn't get anywhere near any of them but the large Angus x Hereford cross. I really won that one over when I took an old broom and started scratching him with it. The tigerstripe watched this and probably realized that I'm either the most patient predator on Earth or I'm not interested in attacking them. Now he'll come in relatively close if I'm tossing them apples and will actually lay down in my vicinity. Before he wouldn't lay down if I was 50 yards away and behind a fence.</p><p></p><p>I don't have too much information on whether they gain better, though his gut has grown to a much greater size in proportion to where it was than any of the others so I think he may be eating more than them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ratfish, post: 274310, member: 4642"] Please do, I'd like to have some idea of what my steer will look like at a larger size. From my extremely limited experience of only a few weeks I will say that my tigerstripe acts like a completely different animal than the others. I have observed the black-tailed deer on the property a great deal over the years and I would say that he acts a lot more like a deer than a steer. He's just very alert and always the first one to notice something new in his surroundings and the last to stop watching it. I think the problem is that people don't want a hair-trigger animal spooking their herd. What I have found though is that just as one nutcase can spook them, one real calm one can send a positive message to the nutcases. For example: when we first got these steers I couldn't get anywhere near any of them but the large Angus x Hereford cross. I really won that one over when I took an old broom and started scratching him with it. The tigerstripe watched this and probably realized that I'm either the most patient predator on Earth or I'm not interested in attacking them. Now he'll come in relatively close if I'm tossing them apples and will actually lay down in my vicinity. Before he wouldn't lay down if I was 50 yards away and behind a fence. I don't have too much information on whether they gain better, though his gut has grown to a much greater size in proportion to where it was than any of the others so I think he may be eating more than them. [/QUOTE]
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