Stockmanship School News-NEXT STOCKMANSHIP SCHOOL- Coming this September 24th-26th, 2020
Due to the success (from participant evaluations) of these 4 day events, we will be holding another rider school at the Cottonwood Ranch in the O'Neil Basin, Nevada. Whit Hibbard, Steve Leonard, Roger Ingram and I will be teaching at this one too. Steve Leonard will be teaching range and riparian area management and he's probably the country best. The ranch has a great lodge, camp grounds, RV hookups, extra horses, good stock to learn on and has been making great progress in improving the land. They hire a professional chef and the food is really great. Don't miss this one, its partly funded by the BLM this year to reduce participant costs and keep quality high and funding may not be there again. Call me if you want to go at 731-336-1167 or email me at stevecote119@gmail.com.
Due to the success (from participant evaluations) of these 4 day events, we will be holding another rider school at the Cottonwood Ranch in the O'Neil Basin, Nevada. Whit Hibbard, Steve Leonard, Roger Ingram and I will be teaching at this one too. Steve Leonard will be teaching range and riparian area management and he's probably the country best. The ranch has a great lodge, camp grounds, RV hookups, extra horses, good stock to learn on and has been making great progress in improving the land. They hire a professional chef and the food is really great. Don't miss this one, its partly funded by the BLM this year to reduce participant costs and keep quality high and funding may not be there again. Call me if you want to go at 731-336-1167 or email me at stevecote119@gmail.com.
What our Schools Are
Typical Stockmanship School Agenda -for range and pasture cattle producers
Typically schools are 1.5 or 2 days with mostly classroom training with photos, diagrams and videos the first and a half day. The second is usually hands on working stock in a pasture or corrals if we have those opportunities nearby. Usually we are working with people trying to better control grazing results so we often talk about the basics of using stock for management of soils and plants up front.
There is probably no stock handling topic that we don't have videos or slides to explain and show how to solve handling issues.
Day 1
8AM-5PM
8AM- Introduction to Stockmanship-what stockmanship is compared to traditional handling
-Benefits are for animal health and control.
-Basics of grazing lands management
-Fundamentals of how livestock learn and principles of controlling them
-Techniques that build trust
-Traits of cattle that are critical to handling properly
-Stuff not to do
Lunch Break
1:OO PM-5:00 PM
-Starting, approaching and moving individuals calmly
-Moving herds
-Moving herds of pairs
-Solving handling challenges-riparian loafers, bunch quitters, aggressive stock
-Stock that run through gates, poor mothers
-Placing cattle
Day 2 8-12PM
-weaning pairs in a field
-sorting cattle
-working stock in facilities, Bud Box design and use
Afternoon Workshop-working live cattle
For a half day workshop with live cattle, we work some cattle in a bigger corral or field and coach participants on how to approach and start, turn, speed up, slow down and stop cattle. This helps understand getting stock working well for you so people have some confidence they can do this too.
If we are teaching folks with mostly dairy then we often focus on working stock in facilities and small pastures. I have over 40 diagrams of working stock in facilities and pastures that help visualize the best ways to set it up so stock go where we want calmly.
Typical Stockmanship School Agenda -for range and pasture cattle producers
Typically schools are 1.5 or 2 days with mostly classroom training with photos, diagrams and videos the first and a half day. The second is usually hands on working stock in a pasture or corrals if we have those opportunities nearby. Usually we are working with people trying to better control grazing results so we often talk about the basics of using stock for management of soils and plants up front.
There is probably no stock handling topic that we don't have videos or slides to explain and show how to solve handling issues.
Day 1
8AM-5PM
8AM- Introduction to Stockmanship-what stockmanship is compared to traditional handling
-Benefits are for animal health and control.
-Basics of grazing lands management
-Fundamentals of how livestock learn and principles of controlling them
-Techniques that build trust
-Traits of cattle that are critical to handling properly
-Stuff not to do
Lunch Break
1:OO PM-5:00 PM
-Starting, approaching and moving individuals calmly
-Moving herds
-Moving herds of pairs
-Solving handling challenges-riparian loafers, bunch quitters, aggressive stock
-Stock that run through gates, poor mothers
-Placing cattle
Day 2 8-12PM
-weaning pairs in a field
-sorting cattle
-working stock in facilities, Bud Box design and use
Afternoon Workshop-working live cattle
For a half day workshop with live cattle, we work some cattle in a bigger corral or field and coach participants on how to approach and start, turn, speed up, slow down and stop cattle. This helps understand getting stock working well for you so people have some confidence they can do this too.
If we are teaching folks with mostly dairy then we often focus on working stock in facilities and small pastures. I have over 40 diagrams of working stock in facilities and pastures that help visualize the best ways to set it up so stock go where we want calmly.
