Posted by LorenMN on March 05, 2012 at 09:32:17 from (64.65.174.118):
Got the heifer moved yesterday, just had to outsmart her. By moving around where I feed hay over a few days, I was able to get her to follow the cows into the paddock where the squeeze chute is. Basically ignored her while they ate some nice green alfalfa, and she walked into the corner where I had corral panels to sweep her into a temporary alley. I put some big sheets of cardboard on the outside of the panels so she couldn't see out, and I have plywood on the outside of the alley panels.
Funny thing was, when she got close to the corner, one of the mamas came up behind her and gave her about an 8 foot shove into the corner, between two other cows! Then I was able to move up and close the last panel to lock them in. She let me know she wasn't happy by throwing a good kick at the panel next to me, but she stayed pretty calm because she was with her mama and another cow. I had the headgate set on automatic, so I just had to sweep her around the corner and she took off for the light, into the headgate and bang! she was caught. Put the squeeze on her and shut the back gate on the chute, then I let everyone else back out to pasture while I got the trailer. Couldn't have worked out any better.
Moved her up the road to the steer pasture, and she found the others right away and seemed to settle down good. Fed them some feed a few hours later and she followed the steers to the feed bunk, but she stayed about 20 feet from me at the hay feeder. I think she will settle down fine. She will be in that pasture until she leaves in two halves on the butcher's truck next February.
Glad I got her moved when I did, since it's supposed to be in the 50's tomorrow so we're going to go from snow and ice to mud soon. Now I hope I got her away from the bull in time before he did his work. Having watched them every day, I hadn't seen the bull show any interest in her yet, so I'm hoping I got her out in time.
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