Low-stress cattle handling is becoming a mainstream practice, but have you ever thought about the ultimate low-stress sorting system -- right from your computer? Advocates of low-stress handling ...
It always pays to sort cattle quietly and calmly, especially when sorting the cows away from the calves for branding, weaning or any other purpose. Dylan Biggs (TK Ranch near Hanna, Alberta) realized ...
The Anaheim Hills Cattle Club hosts a Ranch Sorting Jackpot a few times a year, a day when the equestrians head down to the ranch to compete for the title of top cattle sorter. Ranch sorting is a team ...
We were talking about husbands and wives sorting cattle together. And in the conversation we discovered there are many things a husband should not say to his wife when sorting together. One husband ...
I love ranch sorting, an equestrian sport that involves sorting cattle. I've always wondered how horses get trained, so I contacted Kip Appenzellar, owner of Rockin-A Barn and Fence Builder in Queen ...
Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a two-part series on cattle handling. The first installment ran on Sept. 11. Al Fenton raises purebred Herefords in Alberta and all of his cattle are ...
Cattle sorting consists of teams of two riders on horseback that move numbered cattle from one pen to another, one-by-one in numerical order. (SHAWN GUST/Yakima Herald-Republic) Riders wait to compete ...
BELTON — Shades of the wild, wild West. Cowboys, cowgirls, horses and cows mixed it up this past weekend in the Ranch Sorting of America Show at the Equine/Livestock Complex of the Bell County Expo ...
What is the workout equivalent of spending a long day sorting, moving and caring for cattle? Jenny Schlecht pondered that after her smart watch fitness level jumped after a day of preg checking cows.
Lynette Coller of Stevensville and her horse, Jewel, helped sort cows and calves Wednesday at the Gingerich Ranch, north of Corvallis. The project took the better part of the morning.