{"id":1904,"date":"2015-07-30T21:49:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T02:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stockmanship.com\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2020-08-16T12:24:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T17:24:53","slug":"driving-cattle-and-sheep-in-the-brush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/?p=1904","title":{"rendered":"Driving Cattle and Sheep in the Brush"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question:\u00a0<\/strong> <\/em>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. I\u2019m in Baja California, Mexico; so most of our range is brush, thick chaparral. As we started moving my animals through the brush, I asked Tim what to do, so he mentioned moving in straight lines perpendicular to the movement of the herd. I remembered from the course he had given before all this techniques which worked great in open areas, but in mountainous brush country you can\u2019t move in straight lines. I asked Tim what options did we have but he couldn\u2019t help, he said it was very hard country. Then he said you might be the only person I could talk to, since you and Bud started out of the California brush. I hope you can give me some advice or refer me to someone with similar terrain.<\/p>\n

Answer:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 It is no different working livestock in the brush than it is in open country.\u00a0 Your “straight lines” don’t have to be perfect, just don’t turn and follow behind the stock.\u00a0 When gathering livestock in the brush with several people just have them ride across until they either don’t see any more animals or until they see the other person, then\u00a0 ride back at an angle a hundred feet or so ahead.\u00a0\u00a0 From the start work at an angle that will aim the animals you are influencing toward the gate (or the way you want them to go), don’t try to bunch them up in rough country before you start driving them.\u00a0 Don’t try to keep them out of the brush, just work at the proper angle to keep them\u00a0 headed in the right direction.\u00a0 When you drive stock this way, they won’t try to cut back.\u00a0 We’d often have a pasture nearly gathered before we even saw any animals, though we could hear them moving out ahead of us.<\/p>\n

You could probably learn a lot from Bud’s Stockmanship DVD set ($200 US funds).<\/p>\n

Don’t hesitate to write again if you have a specific problem.<\/p>\n

Eunice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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