Low-Stress Livestock Handling – Starting Herd Movement For a Successful Drive
For the past few years, Whit Hibbard has been sharing a series of articles on Low-Stress Livestock Handling (LSLH). We’ve gathered these articles as one of our Special Collections so you can see them all. Stay tuned as we’ll be sharing a number of new articles in upcoming issues of On Pasture. Driving—the active process […]
Read More →Prepping for Calving Season
Most of these tips apply to any kind of livestock that will be giving birth. So check it out!
Read More →Thoughts and Lessons From Decades of Farming
I met Don and Betty Ashford in September of 2014 when I went to Louisiana to talk about how to train cows to eat weeds. Betty made Monkey Bread for me, I fed her and all the pasture walk participants cricket brownies and fried larvae, and the cows learned to eat horse nettle, teaweed/prickly sida, […]
Read More →Livestock Basics
While Matthew focuses on cattle in his look at the basics, the questions he poses and what they need are right on for all classes of livestock.
Read More →Outsmarting Wild Cattle Part 3
This year I switched from being a year-round cow-calf operation to being a seasonal heifer developer, one of the biggest issues I had was with temperament. Heifers that are new to my operation can be flighty and less calm than a herd I’ve worked with over the years. Here is part 3 of the skills […]
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