The term "Bud Box" describes the kind of handling facility preferred by low-stress livestock handling expert Bud Williams. By moving animals quietly and standing in the right spot, you can quickly and easily move animals into a chute for treatment, weighing or loading. Here's information on how to build your own, including a video showing how it works.
This is the season when spring, long-awaited, reminds us that with every season there is some discomfort. So, though we may damn mud when we're stuck in it, here's a poem to remind us why we love it too.
Dairy farmers wanted to know how to implement this practice on their farms the authors took on the task of checking out how it works for farmers using it in Pennsylvania and New York.
Though you may not have the same grass species described in this article, you're sure to get some information about how grazing affects plant rooting depth, shading, and nutrient distribution and some good ideas about how to manage your grazing to get the results you'd like.
In Part II of this series summarizing Bob Budd's lessons learned, he describes how understanding and using an animal's natural behavior makes it easier to move them and use them to improve landscapes and create habitat.