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.
Rick Machen and Ron Gill of Texas A&M share 5 basic principles of cattle behavior and turn them into ten handling pointers to help you become a better low-stress cattle handler.
Have you noticed that we're running this Low-Stress Livestock Handling series under "Money Matters?" That's because we know that better animal handling saves time and money and makes animals more productive. It also improves the quality of life for us and everyone around us when we're working your stock. We hope that by running this series through the winter, when the grazing season starts up again, we'll be able to practice in pasture what we've learned in print.
Here's another in Whit Hibbard's series on Low-Stress Livestock Handling. Earlier this year Tom Krawiec wrote about how he used these techniques to save...
Last week Whit busted the myth that distractions cause animals to balk in handling systems. This week he address which handling systems work best.
When...
Whit is a fourth generation Montana rancher who spent about 38 years handling cattle conventionally before making the paradigm shift to low-stress livestock handling...
As Temple Grandin notes, “Every time you are working your animals you are training them. You can train them to be easy to handle . . . or you can train them to be difficult.” Here's how to get the results you want.
There's "Working Horses" and "Working Dogs" and they all got good at their jobs because of the training or "work" that we did with them. Well, "working" with your cattle or other herdable stock can get you the same great results.
