This morning I had two cows to send down the road. With our drought getting worse and worse every day and cattle prices continued strong, there is no reason to carry over a cow who has or might have a problem.

Two days previous I had sorted off the two cows and one calf (of one of the cows) at the gate. Auction morning I easily and quickly brought all three into the corral, sorted the two cows into the Bud Box (leaving the calf in the corral), and handily loaded them. Then I brought the rest of the cows around to the corral, opened the gate, the calf mixed right in, and the process was finished with no fuss at all.

Before I learned Stockmanship I’m not sure I would even have considered sorting off and loading cattle so easily and quickly. What a great management tool!

Tina and I spent Friday evening and Saturday visiting with Bud and Eunice Williams and then drove to Oklahoma to Jerry Addision’s ranch there to help them load out seven loads of heifers. What great experience!

Dawn gave me some pointers.

Walk toward them, let them go by you, pressure a little, release a little, and up they go! We loaded those seven trucks in just over two hours.