Jen145
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Need Help!!!
How do u tame a cow to show!!! on the Haulter she's nuts other than that she's fine!!
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2/11/2008, 22:19
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robroy
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Re: Need Help!!!
Try putting a stranger on the halter .
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3/11/2008, 8:15
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titantom
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if all else fails tie her to a donkey
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3/11/2008, 12:46
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howie32
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Re: Need Help!!!
I have also heard that the donkey trick works. Supposedly the donkey will never give up and the cow or heifer eventually has to give in. I have also tried what broa described. Only have had one animal that it didn't work on.
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3/11/2008, 13:38
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Cattle are amazing tutors, my last three years of high school were at an agricultural college. We used trek (draft) oxen to do many of the mundane tasks on the farm, delivering, licks and feed etc. We had two wheel scotch carts as well as four wheeled wagons. While I was there it was decided that the current oxen were getting a tad long in the tooth and new ones needed to be trained up. Once they got used to being handled and the yoke, we would hitch the new pair up to a four wheeled wagon, with a mature pair in front. The old beggars would let the youngsters do all the hard work, the chain would actually have slack in between them, but if the rookies played up the old boys would snap it tight and pull them them back into line. Once they were pulling correctly they would slacken off and the rookies would take all the strain again. They were trained in a relatively short time.
When I got there the oldest pair were Friesians that were grey with age. The best pair were Hereford x Afrikander, they were also easy to handle. They were also a couple of teams of pure Afrikanders and they needed to be handled with some circumspection as they were not above a little gallop if they saw a gap. On one occassion two blokes were given the jobs of delivering lick to the beef herd at the bottom of the farm. Both these guys were pretty laid back and not averse to a bit of the giggle twig when they were far enough from authority. The junior was in front and had wrapped the tow reim about his middle all the better to have his hands free to handle his zol, the other bloke was taking it easy on the back with his smoke. Something happened and the oxen spooked, the back guy was tipped off in to the dirt, the front guy had to run for his life so as not to end up under their hooves, all the while trying to undo himself from the lead rope. Both survived to tell the tale.
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3/11/2008, 15:08
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titantom wrote:
if all else fails tie her to a donkey
This definitely does work, a neighbour of mine shows pedigree Simmentals but he also works full time away from the farm so he ties the calf to the Donkey and thats how he trains them.
It takes a bit of time though. I think it comes down to who is more thick-headed the calf or the Donkey, needless to say the Donkey always wins!
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3/11/2008, 16:09
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SandraUK
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my dad rang me day before a show and said he had put a bull ring in my husbands heifer, showed her with the halter through it like a bull she was so well behaved!
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3/11/2008, 19:30
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Scotty Mac4
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Yea i've seen the bull ring work really well even wire through the nose i've seen work. I also take some of my show cows on long walks tied to the hay wagon with the tractor then wash them and leave them tied still to the wagon for awhile. And i just keep doing it.
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4/11/2008, 2:14
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style holsteins
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Need Help!!!
We got a cows at a sale that was crazy like the one you are talking about. we found that if you wash her and let her dry and calm down a bit and then clip her off she will be a lil more trusting. but it wont be fun cliping for about the first ten minutes but it will get alot better. and just leave her with her head up for about 6 hours a day. but never take her halter off walk her to water and then tie her up there. i work a sale every spring and we get some cows that come from the amish. and after just the 5 days of gettin washed, walked, and clipped they improve alot.
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4/11/2008, 19:45
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