Stockmanship - How to use the Bud Williams method of low stress cattle handling and herding to move livestock on the open range.

Steve Cote from the National Resources Conservation Service in Arco, Idaho has written an easy to understand book on cattle herding on extensive rangeland. This book contains many diagrams that show you how to turn, move, and sort large and small herds of cattle. The cattle herd will stay together, drive easily, and stay where you put the without fences. Low stress handling methods will also reduce sickness and facilitate grazing management. Learning these methods will enable rancers to quietly move cattle in pasture rotation systems and keep them out of fragile riperian areas along streams. In grazing rotation systems, a common mistake is to allow mother cows to run wildly into the next pasture. This results in stressed calves that get separated from their mothers. The Bud Williams cattle herding methods will make it possible to move the cows in a slow controlled manner, so they will remain with their calves. This book is separated into individual PDF files for the cover, introduction, and each chapter. This wil lmake it easier ot download and print.

• Front Cover
• Author Page - Contact information for Steve Cote
• Title Page - Stockmanship: A powerful tool for grazing land management
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• Chapter 1: Stockmanship and range health
• Chapter 2: Stress reduces productivity
• Chapter 3: Benefits of stockmanship
• Chapter 4: Basics of high control of cattle movement
• Chapter 5: Handling priciples and behavorial traits
• Chapter 6: Mindset of a good rider for herding
• Chapter 7: What your stock can and should do well
• Chapter 8: Techniques to build trust and diagrams of cattle herding patterns
• Chapter 9: Before handling out on the Range - How to train cattle to move quielty
• Chapter 10: Making a grazing program work
• Chapter 11: A few final words
• Glossary
• Resources
• Back Cover

Steve Cote has given me permission to post his entire book on www.grandin.com - Temple Grandin.

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