Sunday, November 29, 2015

The new steers

I got to go down to the barn and see the new show steers for this year. I also was excited because i got to teach little kids proper ways to handle a steer and to break them to walk. I was able to get lead ropes on 3 of the 4 but the fourth one was being a little shit. So i had to run him into a head gate so i could put his halter on. The big problem was he started to flip out and kick the safety bars around him. So we had to give him calf calmer which is a paste you give to the calf to calm it down. I had to talk to it and touch it to calm it down so we would be able to walk it around the barn. WHen i took it out of the head gate it started going crazy again so i have to wrestle it to the ground. I finally got it to the ground and held it there till the kids got to a safe place and let him up and put him back in the pen with the other ones. I needed to show the kids the proper technique so i grabbed my od show heifer from last year she was being sassy expalins were she got her name. I started to walk her around the barn and set her up to show the kids how to set up the animal. I let the kids come up to her and pet her while she stood there and ate grain.

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