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As this topic often comes up in questions and Facebook posts about stockmanship, I thought it was time to share some more information about the Bud Box. The Bud Box is a philosophy rather than a set of dimensions. People usually don’t have any problems getting animals to “break back”
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
. . . . I built a new processing barn with a Bud Box. We used to use a tub. With the new setup, working cattle takes half the time. We never yell or shock anything – and it’s fun!
We keep getting questions from people about the Bud Box. The Bud Box is just a crowd pen that uses certain principles to help the people work animals easier, while allowing the animals to keep doing what they prefer. It isn’t just a rectangular pen that can be put anywhere
There have been a lot of articles written about the “Bud Box” for loading a processing chute or trucks in the last few years. Though Bud has often stated that he “would like to live long enough to see every crowd tub replaced with a Bud Box, or at least
Comment: . . . . At long last we are building a barn and getting ready to begin on the pens. Redesigned the pens completely after my weekend with you and built a trial set out of panels it works great. I am a true convert to the Bud Box.
Did a few adjustments to my load out chute and a few to me. We loaded a pot with 59 steers in 8 minutes from first to last one on. Now i think Bud might be proud of that.
I have been working intensively with a group of 4 cows, doing ovum pick up. The cows are in a larger group of about 25. Every time I work with them, I have to gather and sort. I then put my 4 cows through the chute, and perform prep/procedures that
Who are Bud and Eunice Williams? Bud Williams was born in 1932 on a farm in Southern Oregon, where he was raised with a variety of farm animals including work horses, dairy and beef cattle, sheep and hogs. After we married in 1952, we worked on cattle and sheep ranches in
Recently I had an e-mail from Hellen Santos, a Brazilian journalist from Globo Television, the main TV network in Brazil. She was putting together a journalistic piece on a “Brazilian feedlot that had recently installed a Bud Box and had its team trained to incorporate Bud William´s technics on livestock
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