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They may have been Temple Grandin's students but they weren't using Temple Grandin's methods - as usual the human, not the cow, is the problem  ;)

Low stress cattle handling is (totally) dependent on the attitude of the human, not the number of cows worked. People who use aversive handling techniques always have an excuse for why they use them and tend to belittle those who do things differently. The cow doesn't have to read Temple Grandin...

I think training cows to go in the chute and rewarding them, while perhaps time intensive in the beginning, pays of down the road. I work my cows alone - once gathered they pretty much self load into the chute - there is a pan of grain at the end of the chute - it is a manual head gate - they go...

Learn how to work your cows - read about low stress handling -figure out how to make the cows do what you want and think it was their decision - if the cows perceive the chute in a negative way (ie what do you do in the chute - is it always unpleasant?) they will be reluctant to go into the...

LLND Chili is a Power Plant son out of the Tryst cow - he was owned by Larry Lind of Colorado. Don Coover SEK Genetic Horizons has Chili semen last I knew. Just had a Chili heifer and have a Chili cow and confirmed by ultrasound a 30 d Chili pregnancy today. While he might have been marketed as...

Interesting pedigree with some old black Maine genetics, but I agree with telos - nothing in the pedigree (nor the EPDs, which have very modest accuracy) suggest that this would be a heifer bull or a calving ease bull

Human nature - when faced with a calf that isn't coming is to pull straight, pull fast and forget the lube. One thing to consider when you are pulling calves is that the force generated by the calf jack can be tremendous - if the calf is not positioned "right" you can tear a ligament in the hip...

If you are talking about *xAR34211 Jakes Blue his listed sire is Double Stuff who is a double carrier - I don't know a thing about his dam Improver (ie Deerpark Improver) is considered the "founder" of TH in the Shorthorn breed - the interesting thing is that Improver the 3rd is TH negative...

There is a fair bit of either confusion or misinformation re the origin of TH and PHA - so here are the facts (Whitlock et al Heritable bovine fetal abnormalities Theriogenology 70 (2008) 535–549) The Tibial hemimelia syndrome was first described in 1951 in Scotland in the Galloway breed of...

OK try this - and it will take time and patience, which many teenagers do not have an abundance of, as well as the ability to "read" cattle - again something that most teenaged boys do not have in excess Cattle that are forced to do things are fearful - ie if you let them explore things they...

You sit with a calf for an hour and he never stops running the pen? and he runs to the point of panting? You were breaking him but you quit because he was running the weight off? And then you sold him to a big kid  -  and recently he is throwing dirt in the air by pawing the ground and butting...

You got my advice, you just didn't like it, guess I should have been clearer - ship the calf and help him get another one. BTW I still don't understand why you would sell a calf to a kid who displayed the behavior you describe - "full disclosure" or not the most dangerous bovine is a fearful one...

Yes the calf has spastic paresis and I believe the calf is in pain or at least uncomfortable so you need to make a decision rapidly as to not let the calf suffer unnecessarily Spastic paresis (AKA Elso Heel) is a genetic disorder of multiple breeds first described in Holsteins (off spring of...

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OK really? you sit with a calf for an hour and he never stops running the pen? and he runs to the point of panting? You were breaking him but you quit because he was running the weight off? And then you sold him to a big kid -  and now recently he is throwing dirt in the air by pawing the ground...

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RAAA registration categories Category 1A 100% Red Angus blood, no disqualifying features Category 1B - From 87% to less than 100% Red Angus blood with no disqualifying features Category II - Equal to or greater than 87% up to and including 100% Angus blood having one of more disqualifying...

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