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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
  1. Increase shipping weights
  2. Reduce labor costs
  3. Reduce antibiotic costs in feedlots by up to 50%
In addition, by combining reduced stress cattle handling with holistic grazing practices you may:
  1. Increase your carrying capacity
  2. Reduce infrastructure needs
  3. 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.

  1. Horsemanship instruction to fully take advantage of reduced stress cattle handling techniques while horseback
  2. Moving large groups of cattle in open country
  3. Sorting cattle in the pens and alleys (both horseback, and if requested, on foot)
  4. Video recording you while working so you can see what you are doing right or wrong and make adjustments
  5. Low stress roping techniques
  6. Discuss management techniques to
  • improve forage conditions
  • increase carrying capacity
  • reducing infrastructure costs
The feedlot program includes
  1. Working with pen riders a full day in each section
  2. Horsemanship methods to take full advantage of reduced stress cattle handling methods
  3. Pulling sick cattle
  4. Sorting in the alley
  5. Sorting pen mixes
  6. Spend one day working with vet tech crew
  7. 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).



Herd Behavior
Economics
Watching the Gate
Cost effectiveness of intensive grazing
Stopping your horse


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Bud Williams Stockmanship
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