It always pays to sort cattle quietly and calmly, especially when sorting the cows away from the calves for branding, weaning or any other purpose. Dylan Biggs (TK Ranch near Hanna, Alberta) realized ...
It’s a wonderful time of year. The “fall run” is on and cowboys all over the country are celebrating as they ship calves. Many ranches today precondition (vaccinate) the calves a few weeks before ...
"Slow down!" Larry Maybon hollered at a pair of riders inside the corral who were attempting, while on horseback, to maneuver 10 calves from one end of the corral to the other, in numerical order, ...
A few weeks ago, I helped my husband move some pens of calves and sort some cows. Our feedlot has an excellent drainage system, but this time of year, nothing can drain well enough to keep pens dry.
Sex is big business in dairy farming, which is why a battle is brewing in the U.S. over new technologies designed to make sure only cows that can eventually produce milk are born. Most of America's ...