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Reduced stress cattle handling is one of
the best management tools in a producer's arsenal. Just
by changing the way we handle our cattle it is possible
to
- Increase shipping weights
- Reduce labor costs
- Reduce antibiotic costs in feedlots by up to 50%
In addition, by combining reduced stress cattle
handling with holistic grazing practices you may:
- Increase your carrying capacity
- Reduce infrastructure needs
- Reconfigure water infrastructure to save pumping a
million or more gallons of water lost to evaporation
By the time you figure $400 to $500 for the initial
cost of the seminar, travel, lodging and meal expenses
(not to mention lost time at the ranch) you are spending
in the neighborhood of $1,000 to attend a school. After
staring at videos and listening to lectures for two or
three days you go home and try to figure out what you
learned (if anything).
Rather than have you come to me, I go to you and cover
the following on your ranch or feedlot and under your own working
conditions for a reasonable cost.
- Horsemanship instruction to
fully take advantage of reduced stress cattle handling
techniques while horseback
- Moving large groups of cattle in open country
- Sorting cattle in the pens and alleys (both
horseback, and if requested, on foot)
- Video recording you while working so you can see
what you are doing right or wrong and make adjustments
- Low stress roping techniques
- Discuss management techniques to
- improve forage conditions
- increase carrying capacity
- reducing infrastructure costs
The feedlot program includes
- Working with pen riders a full day in each section
- Horsemanship methods to take full advantage of
reduced stress cattle handling methods
- Pulling sick cattle
- Sorting in the alley
- Sorting pen mixes
- Spend one day working with vet tech crew
- Observe processing and doctoring facilities and make
suggestions to improve and make safer
Cost for either program is only $1,800
for six days plus $0.75 a mile travel expense fee from Van
Horn, Texas (one way only).
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