Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
We would be glad to talk to your group about stockmanship for any length of time. Shorter talks (one to two hours) can just cover the value of stockmanship and minimal basics. Longer talks (three to four hours) can cover the value of stockmanship and a few more basics. A one day school covers the value of stockmanship and gives you many good stockmanship tools to take home. A two day school provides much more opportunity for in-depth discussion on how to implement low-stress stockmanship into more areas of your livestock system.
We will show a wide variety of video demonstrating using stockmanship on different types and classes of livestock at all our talks and schools.
Sometimes we include live animal demonstrations in our talks, but we will not be doing that for our one or two day schools. It might seem like attendees would learn better by seeing Richard actually work the livestock, but we feel our time is much better spent using video and discussion in the classroom setting. When a group of people is outside, side discussions start up, some people have trouble seeing, and others happen to be looking away when something important happens. Since many of the stockmanship tools are subtle, attendees will miss much of what happens because there is no "rewind" in live demonstrations! However, using film, we can show a clip over and over pointing out what was done and the result until everyone is clear on what happened and why.
Also, if you think there might be a group of people wanting to come to a two-day stockmanship school in your area, contact us and we can set one up there! We will be picking locations across the midwest and setting up schools beginning this fall.
Our fee policy is backed by a 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you aren't happy with what you learn, your fee will be refunded.