A old farmer showed me once how to get cattle in to a dehorning chute. He walked to the back of the pen with two dry feed sacks one in each hand. All of the sudden he screamed, hollered and started flaping his feed bag wings. The cattle went in to the chute on their hind legs.
So The following Sat. we were to move the calves (25 - 30) from one pen with a electric fence. They had to cross the feed lot and go down a cement flight of steps to the lower story. This always involed a 8N Ford, ropes, and a half day at best. I showed the boss how I was taught, and within three munites it was all done, like you moved them on a computer game.
Come Monday morning one hired man was way back in the feed lot so I yelled real loud at him. I spooked the fat (175) steers, they crowded in to a old cattle shed that had two silage wagon roofs tied to the rafters. They knocked out a post and droped the two roofs on their backs.
The farm was around three hundred acres, another hundred in river bluff timbers over looking the Mississippi River. We chased cattle for over a week. The boss said I'm not mad at you, just don't ever do it again.
Old timmers told me mules were the ones that remembered where eletric fences had been.
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