I have a feeder heifer that is about ready to make me pull my hair out. We have had her for about 3 weeks now and she is not wild by any means just really stubborn. She is a show heifer so we have been working with her everyday a few times a day trying to walk her and and rinsing and blowing her out. When she wants to walk you don't even have to put any pressure on the halter, but if she doesn't want to walk you can't hardly move her. You can practically twist her tail off and she won't budge just leans back with all four legs locked. We have tied her and brushed her and she doesn't really fight the halter when she is tied up. She doesn't like going into the grooming chute but once you get her in there she just stands there and lets you do what ever to her. Her head isn't even in the head gate just tied up. We also use the light tug approach when breaking calves but it doesn't matter how little or how much pressure you pull on the halter with if she doesn't want to walk she won't budge. We have always been able to get our calves broke pretty easy using a gentle approach and I hate to have to get a tractor out and was searching for other ideas. I don't have access to a breaking donkey either. Any suggestions would be GREATLY appriciated! Thanks!
Another question is she is a My Turn out of a Foreplay/simmi cow just curious how the dispositions of these two bulls calves were. She is a really nice powerful heifer and she was mainly bought to keep as a cow so just curious. Thanks again!
Another question is she is a My Turn out of a Foreplay/simmi cow just curious how the dispositions of these two bulls calves were. She is a really nice powerful heifer and she was mainly bought to keep as a cow so just curious. Thanks again!
