Bad day of halter breaking (pics)

[SKF]

My daughter finally put the halter on her new steer and tried to walk him. It did not go very well as you can see in the pictures below. He is a little dramatic!! ;D

 

[PaddyO]

Ha Ha! The good ol time I suppose! Don't ya just love it?

 

[OH Breeder]

That is SO irritating. Evey now and then you get a dramatic one. I have one cow to this day that is drama drama drama. When she calves she makes all kinds of noise. She has had 4 calves. But everyone is like her first.

 

[SKF]

That is SO irritating. Evey now and then you get a dramatic one. I have one cow to this day that is drama drama drama. When she calves she makes all kinds of noise. She has had 4 calves. But everyone is like her first.

This steer drives me CRAZY!!! Besides acting like having to lead is the worst thing in the world he is the nosiest calf we have ever owned. He moos and moos the whole time we are at the barn and he is very loud. At least he is a sweet calf and I have to say we had a great laugh tonight because of his antics.

 

[CM Cattle]

(lol)

 

[CAB]

First 2 pics," They've killed Kenny".

 

[SlickTxMaine]

My son's steer last year pitched a fit over the halter!!!  We had to run him in the loading chute several times just to halter him, and each time he would jump out of the chute.......YES, over the side of the chute!  It was insane!  We ended up having to load him and take him to the vet clinic and put him in a sqeeze chute to avoid injury.  He bellered so insanely, the vet said it sounded like we were castrating him!  Once we got the halter on him, he was fine and was actually pretty easy to break to lead.  Ya just never know how they will react!

 

[box6rranch]

I have to say that's one of the most entertaining pictures I've seen in a long time
Good luck, hopefully he'll turn out to be a sweetheart.

 

[inthebarnagain]

A ring halter that will loosen as soon as you let off should cure that.  I was breaking a steer that did that last year and he got completely confused when he would feel the pressure, get built up to throw himself down and than all of the sudden there wasn't any pressure under his chin.  You got to love the ones with personalities!!

 

[Sassy Show Stock]

LOL that just made my day.... I love comin on cattle sites to kill time at school...can always find something entertaining...even though i do get weird looks from my classmates lol

 

[JoeDirt]

How did you get the Halter on him when he was laying done?  (lol) (lol) (lol)

So do we want a Couch Potato? or a Wild hard to break Steer?

I wonder what is worse?

 

[cattlejunky]

That is so funny.  We had one do that a couple of years ago.  first he sat down like a dog then he fell over.  You could walk over and around him and he wouldn't move.  We walked away and let him lay there about 10 mins when he thought we weren't paying attention he popped his head up.

 

[ba]

We put a replacement screw to close up chain links through the lead hole so
the lead will loosen up easier and it doesn't cut on the ears or chin as bad.

 

[jlingle]

Shoot, we were halter breaking my daughter's steer the other day.  He got his head down, stuck his nose to the ground & bulldozed about 15 feet before I could get his fool head up again.  My little girl's eyes were as big as saucers. ;D  He's a sweetheart of a calf though, and will walk right up to you & want to be patted on the head when he isn't wearing a halter.  He'll come around soon, it'll just take a little time.

 

[jbw]

That's funny!  I stopped over to my cousins house a couple of weeks ago to pick up a bucket calf. She had an oppointment at the locker. We got the calf to the back of the trailer and she did the same thing, played dead wouldn't move for anything. I was going to be late so I left, they said when I was a half mile down the road she picked her head up, looked around, saw I was gone, and walked back to the shed!

 

[linnettejane]

(lol)  too funny! 

 

[SKF]

He provides us a great deal of entertainment at the barn with all of his antics.  My daughter said that he definintly will not be her showmanship calf this year.

 

[VJ]

Thanks for the laugh. It is a lot better to have them that way than to have them try to rocket out of sight when you try to lead them.