I have come to the conclusion that most livestock don\u2019t feel safe in their home pastures, no matter where they live, which is why, when Bud moved them,they were convinced that the place he left them was safe and the place they wanted to be.\u00a0 The increase in production and the decrease in illness bolsters my feelings on this.\u00a0 The fact that it makes the stock easier to handle and utilize your pastures better is frosting on the cake.\u00a0 Bud felt that the modern way of moving animals with feed has created neurotic cows that instead of the cow taking stress off of her calf, actually\u00a0 puts stress on it.\u00a0 In our early ranching days you NEVER had a sick calf while it was on the cow.\u00a0 Even those old wild cows that were gathered rough, handled rough in the corral and were turned back out would take their calves back home and show her calf that she was able to get her baby away from the bad situation and that they didn\u2019t have anything more to worry about.<\/p>\n
Many times we have left cattle and sheep (and reindeer) on a part of the pasture with rank grass where they walked over lush grass to go to water but would still go back to the area where Bud left them, or be content to stay in a pen out in the hot sun with the gate open for 3-hours before finally drifting out.\u00a0 Some of these instances are on our website www.stockmanship.com.\u00a0 Click on the \u201cHerding\u201d button.\u00a0\u00a0 When we were in Canada we were involved with a cow herd that summered in the \u201cbush\u201d in Northern Alberta.\u00a0 The cattle up there want to come home to the hay in the corral at the first frost.\u00a0 The area where we had our cattle was a path for about 20,000 head on their way home.\u00a0\u00a0 The guy we were working for wanted to keep his cattle there for another month so we saved a fenced pasture in the area to put his cattle in in the fall.\u00a0 The only problem was it was a very dry year and all of the water in that pasture had dried up.\u00a0 These were cattle that Bud and I had taken care of all summer.\u00a0 We would drive them to a new area a couple of times a week and they always stayed together.\u00a0 Anyway, when the neighbors cattle started their migration, we placed our cattle in the saved pasture, but had to leave the gate open so they could water at a little lake about a half mile from the pasture where we left them.\u00a0 When it was time to take these cattle home they were still going back to the pasture where we left them.\u00a0 Not one picked up with the cattle migrating to their home corrals, even though every other year they had always came home with the other cattle.
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I have come to the conclusion that most livestock don\u2019t feel safe in their home pastures, no matter where they live, which is why, when Bud moved them,they were convinced that the place he left them was safe and the place they wanted to be.\u00a0 The increase in production and the decrease in illness bolsters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stockmanship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1834,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}