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Bud Williams Stockmanship
Eunice Williams
883 E 505th Road
Aldrich, MO 65601
417-719-4910
eunice@stockmanship.com
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Category: Stockmanship

Starting Calves, Good News?

Question:    We have all heard plenty of stories about the “wrecks” people have been through when starting a set of calves.  I would enjoy hearing about the good things that people are seeing when they start calves properly.

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I Agree

Bud and Eunice, I am mailing a copy of your thoughts regarding large animal vets to John Thomson, Dean of Iowa State University Vet School.  The principle is much the same as an article in the Wall Street Journal about General Motors and training managers about 20 years  ago.  It

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"Animal Health Care in Crisis"

The September 2009 Progressive Farmer magazine has an article titled “A JOB NO ONE WANTS Animal health care is in crisis and there aren’t enough large-animal vets to go around.” Here are my thoughts on this health care “crisis” The solution to the “crisis” is not more large-animal veterinarians.  The

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Set the Record Straight

Ann Barnhardt has been doing a great job teaching our basic Marketing School since 2006.  BudWilliamsMarketing.com is her website.  We don’t have anything to do with it. Bud’s schools (and his life) have always been “works in progress.”  From the questions we have been getting from folks who have attended

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Support Groups

Comment:     Please let me know if you have another discussion group in Texas or an adjoining state.  I would love to spend time with positive minded-people who don’t think I am a nut. Answer:   Bud and I strongly advise folks to locate like-thinking people to meet with.  These meetings give

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Bud's Right Again

We are doing well and really excited how easily we are working the cattle now. Everything Bud said about preparing them first, and working them properly is right. I no longer worry that our fences aren’t bullet proof, and that the working facilities aren’t solid. If we work them properly

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Comments from Australia

Hello Eunice & Bud, Thank you for the subscription password, I got on and had a look and have  written a bit which may be a bit strong for you to add to your site, I will let you be the judge of that !! I don’t aim to stirr

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Livestock Handling Scoring System

I just received a phone call from a very good friend who lives in Australia. He is one of the best stockmen I have ever known. He had been to a field day that was put on by a Professor of Animal Science from a U. S. University. This person

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Stockmanship

Stress is an important component of livestock health problems and effectively limits performance. Sources of stress include shipping, weaning, acclimation to new surroundings, processing, pen riding, treating, and sorting. People can be trained in stockmanship and management techniques that eliminate stress during these procedures and, in fact, make handling episodes

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Bull Stops Herd

Question— April 2008, Oregon— . . . . . . . . . . . What do you do when you are trying to get movement from a group of cows and the bull is the kind that is stopping the movement. In fact he will literally stand in the

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