After Richard and Tina put on a two-day Proper Stockmanship School in Red Deer, Alberta, one of the attendees wrote this very good article about what they taught: Proper stockmanship, the Bud Williams’ way

I’m pasting below a story that I received from the wife of a ranching couple who took one of my beginning stockmanship clinics. They both really bought into it and tried hard to implement what they learned, and they had many successes. Then the wheels fell off. This is their

I have 2 questions regarding the Bud box. 1. The first relates to cattle. I have an existing squeeze chute next to a wool shed wall. I want to add a Bud box to it. Because of the layout I cannot make the “Bud Box” in such a way that

Question:      Eunice, Tina, and Richard, Each winter we move our herd of about 275 cows, heifers, and replacements, frequently, in one mob, several miles from one crop residue field to another. How do we keep the leaders, and thus the entire herd, on the road or on a good path

Question:  Regarding the herd you told me about that just wants to take off on a high lope – Answer:  The rider in the lead should not try to MAKE the cattle go slower. He is “JUST THERE.” He must stay in front even if he has to gallop his

Question:  Last year I took a course on low stress stockman ship from a mutual friend of ours: Tim Westfall. It was mostly theoretical, so I felt I needed an example, so I brought him along as I moved my flock of sheep and herd of cattle to the mountains.

This is part of a posting on another site I monitor along with my response. I thought it might be of interest to you folks. “We are committed to low stress handling and have watched the Bud Williams stock handling videos and are trying to learn how to handle our

Hi Eunice, I thought you’d be interested in the following email (pasted below) that I just received from the new wildlife biologist at Theodore Roosevelt National Park. He wants to stop using a helicopter to do periodic park-wide roundups of the wild horses for culling and only use low-stress livestock