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Good Stockmen Understand What an Animal is “Saying”

"Reading" what an animal is saying with it's movements is the best way to know how to tell it what you'd like it to do next. These examples will help you "talk" to your animals.

Stockmanship: An Essential Component of Sustainability

Stockmanship is a powerful, yet under-appreciated and under-utilized component of operating sustainable livestock operations. It requires no additional inputs, yet studies have shown that...

Understanding Consequences to Change Animal Behavior

When someone asks you for help, do you prefer to be asked nicely and then be rewarded with a "thank you" or "nice job?"...

Good Stockmanship Makes All The Difference

This is the final excerpt in this series. Authors Whit Hibbard and Dr. Lynn Locatelli conclude that investing in training for anyone handling and moving livestock is cheaper and more effective in the long run than trying to create and install expensive handling equipment that doesn't necessarily do the job.

Tubs Vs. BudBoxes: BudBoxes Win!

You don't need to spend your hard earned cash on fancy facilities. Here Whit Hibbard and Dr. Lynn Locatelli continue their analysis highlighting why inexpensive, easy to use BudBoxes make more sense than high dollar facilities.

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The Wave – the Secret to Keeping Calves and Lambs with Their Moms When Moving Them

For the last 8-10 years I have been working on an efficient method to move new born calves and lambs from pasture to pasture....

Easy Techniques for Turning Cattle and Moving Them Out of Corners

If you want to develop your stockmanship skills, you're in the right place. Thanks to the talents and contributions of Whit Hibbard, there's a...

Gathering Cattle – These Techniques Make It Much Easier

Thanks to Dawn Hnatow for co-authoring this piece! A lot of ranchers have trouble gathering their cattle; that is, it takes a lot of riders...

Happiness is Being in the Herd

Tom has learned that if he teaches his livestock that it's safest to be in the herd, everyone's life becomes much easier and better. Here's how he trains herd behavior.

Driving Cows and Calves – How to Make Sure They Stay Together

In the last four articles we talked about how to properly drive cattle. (Here are the last four articles in case you missed them:...

The Power of One Wire

Dr. Matt Poore also contributed to this article. The tools to improve productivity that we have at our disposal are quite astonishing. Computers that allow...

Cattle Shrink When They’re Stressed

If you've done everything right up to now to raise fat cattle, be sure what you do when you're handling and transporting them doesn't undo all your hard work.

Stroke Your Calves For Better Weight Gain

Better weight gain for calves, more milk from cows with just 42 minutes spread over 2 weeks. Plus a "how-to" video.

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