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Five gallon cattle

I'm guilty.

If my cattle even see or hear my truck, they start heading for the working pens.

A good way to indoctronate new arrivals is to simply show up with a bucket of sweet feed, calmly walk out, put the bucket down and walk away.

Curiosity kills the cat, or rather, catches the calf. Next time you show up with a bucket, they'll come your way right off.

bart.
 
We usually feed with the feed wagon and when we are done just walk down the bunk line between the bunk and the cattle. Pretty soon you can find your friends that like to be scratched and they will follow you around the bunks. Makes taking sale pictures easier.

have a good one

lazy ace
 
I've been doing that for years, really helps when calving heifers if they aren't afraid of you being on foot around them in the calving pens. I'd rather have them come to me than run away from me.
 
I get the lead steer addicted to treats the rest follow him. In the droughts when we had to winter on pellets and straw there was an unexpected side effect the cows could hear the feed truck door open at a half mile. We just started graining the broncs-they settle down so they are easier to load in the chutes if you spend a bit of time with them. I found after I purged a bloodline or two the cattle became way quieter also. I have a buddy was a baiter-it got so his cows got wise to it and actually got harder to capture but all in all a bit of candy does help.
 
I've been feeding my coming 2's and 3's some corn silage this winter because I had some left over from last year. I think if I wanted to I could lead them over a cliff with that tractor and wagon. :lol:
 
In the drought years we sent 200 cows into south east Sask. They ran in 4 sections of solid poplar trees with cutlines every so far. I thouhgt it would be a real wreck but the guy looking after them used a steel grain wheel to put out grain every 4 or 5 days. One guy drove the truck the other road horse back and caught anything sick. We never had any problems at all in 4 years. I managed a place that ran 300 cows they were grazed rotationally. Called every time they were moved to fresh grass. I was warned if you had to deal with them they would run and were hard to manage. If you use cake , grain , fresh grass to bate cattle that is fine if they think they are getting some thing good but if they smell a trap good luck. I culled a few key cows and started moving them again , the people I worked with could not believe it. Im not saying its wrong to bate or use grain to move cattle, the guy in Sask, had no choice and I was really impressed with how he did things, my cattle see me on foot taking strings off bales and they are hand fed as weaned calves.
 
Be careful with those 5 gallon pails. I've got a bull thats been breaking in to feed with my calves so I smoked him over the head with my feed pail. Should have let go of the handle 'cause it came back and laid my chin open. Took lots of crazy glue to close it up.
No matter what kind of spin I put on the story I still end up a dummy. Think I'll stay home awhile.
 
starvin'dog said:
Be careful with those 5 gallon pails. I've got a bull thats been breaking in to feed with my calves so I smoked him over the head with my feed pail. Should have let go of the handle 'cause it came back and laid my chin open. Took lots of crazy glue to close it up.
No matter what kind of spin I put on the story I still end up a dummy. Think I'll stay home awhile.
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Oowwww, Not so funny on the receiving end, but funny as heck to hear! I hate when that happens!
 
Neighbor kid that's a year older I went to high school with, he was home from College and his dad was in the hospital, well they had a meadow place a few miles from the home place. They always feed that hay out first. I was feeding across the road where the lane to their meadow was. Their hay was gone up there and the kid had a full load on his sleigh and was trying to push the cows down the lane in front of the team. Needless to say the place is leased out and he is a school teacher.
Gee I always grab a bale behind the tractor fall thru spring to move the cows. The sheep we just fill a bucket with corn or oats and state walking, the border collies bring up the rear.
 
My better half has a healthy respect, almost unhealthy at times, for the cows. She was running a gate for me one night as I was sorting off a cow that has a backward calf coming. Well, ol pet, as we'll call her, liked to eat from your hand so she came up un noticed behind Jan & smelled her pocket for some cake. Now she was a big ol' cow, but she must have looked like a freight train to Jan. The ol' cow stood there wondering what was going on, I tried to get the gate shut in time, and Jan?? Suffice it to say that I saw a lot more humor in the situation than did my spouse! She still don't like me to hand feed cake to anything.
 
We feed our ranch raised at a fence line feeder , that way they get used to being close to people , most of these can be called into the corral the first couple of times if they need to be worked on after that they get wise. they also relate me to getting fed and stand at the fence and bawl when they see me.
 
Big Swede said:
I've been feeding my coming 2's and 3's some corn silage this winter because I had some left over from last year. I think if I wanted to I could lead them over a cliff with that tractor and wagon. :lol:
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If you think silage is bad feed some wet cake or syrup you'd swear their on crack with that stuff.
 

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