“After joining, weaning is the single biggest value-adding intervention you can make to a cattle enterprise” ~ 𝐴𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑏 (𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑦) … … First dog session on some Angus weaners with Rome, Tally and Tess
Vaggs Rome on yearling cattle, broke these in as weaners in the yards then they’ve only been handled once since.
Happy with how he’s grown into himself with control, absorbs pressure then returns enough to create flow 🐮🐮
Tally fresh back from maternity leave
Quite often your best option is to send the dog and keep your mouth shut
Long-ish video, yarding a handful of stubborn ewes I was a bit lazy on the bike so they beat me out to the side and I was late sending Tally out into the roly-poly, the thing I like about her is I just find her so easy to work with
I missed the initial pickup and regather, and in the middle I went to adjust the camera and hit Stop button then fumbled to start it again so missed a bit in the middle, sack the cameraman lol
SIRE PROFILE - Carrolls Ted
Recently Iuna Tally had a litter of pups to Carrolls Ted, a really versatile and practical red&tan dog of Josh Pianto’s (cheers Josh for the footage 👍🏼)
The pups will be ready to go in a couple of weeks, all really nice types more info to come soon, PM or message 0437 503 753 if interested
🐄🐄 Calf Weaning 🐄🐄
Just thought I’d post a bit of a vid about using the dogs as part of the calf weaning process, from first introduction through the first session.
These calves are fresh out of the hills at Roto in Day 3 of yard weaning, pretty settled still a little bit flighty and first time they’ve seen a dog.
This isn’t a post pushing the dogs, technically they aren’t perfect here (this is work as it happens) but more how much you can achieve in one session with young cattle that will set them up for a lifetime of handling ease, weight gain and not flattening fences.
My fundamental aims of yard weaning:
- allow them to be comfortable and calm in any situation you or the dogs put them in, including walking quietly through my pressure at gateways
- you’ll achieve a lot more allowing animals to make their own decision to respond to pressure, than you will bluntly forcing a response as the animal doesn’t get the chance to learn anything
Rome is doing most of the heavy lifting here with Tally and Storm who are more naturally sheepdogs
Really happy to hear from people about different weaning processes, these calves will have a few more dog sessions and handling over the coming days, then be drenched and processed and tailed out of the yards after ~ a week of yard confinement.
50 Shades of Grey - Farmer’s Edition
A young fella told me quiet cattle were boring to work, let’s front-foot that and say I couldn’t disagree more.
These are the same weaners as yesterday’s weaning vid, about 2km into their first walk after being let out of the yards.
Nothing special happening here just young cattle set up for a lifetime of higher weight gain, less days on feed and not flattening yards and fences.
Dogs are Vaggs Rome, Iuna Tally & Topeka Piper
Weaning & breaking calves doesn’t have to be fireworks 👌🏼
Jones’s Jude (far side) and Iuna Tally (10mths old) walking ewe hoggets towards the safety of the sandhills off the flooding creeks.
There’s nothing exceptional happening in this video but it’s subtle and just as satisfying.
Young Tally has had some formal training but given the opportunity slots straight into the job, the sheep are telling the story that the pressure-release is spot on and nothing is working harder than it has to.
This apprentice should develop into a really practical bitch that loves coming to work and she’s making it pretty easy to take her 👍🏼
Getting to know the new recruit Jones’s Happy, super easy bitch to have around.
Have got a couple of male p~ps out of Happy looking for their forever working homes, mostly red&tan and black&tan.
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