Started the morning checking heifers we worked yesterday.  Worked with them in The moonlight.

Processed steers today and had some different guys on the crew.  It changed the way we worked, and I think we were a little faster today, but more important less turned around calves in the chute, so the calves had a much better first experience through the chute.

I went back to “Dairy Fence” and we worked with the heifers.  The steers were pretty settled and I figured they had enough for one day.

We will try to get them out on grass as soon as we can, so I want to have them where they will drive without panic movement and what I call hook them on and stop their feet.  This allows the handler to slow and stop the feet.  When you can stop their feet it allows their mind to think about putting their head down and eating.

This set of calves is really different than the calves I saw last year.  The guys are really making a difference in how these calves respond.

If you go to curtpatestockmanship.com and the scooploop will have the post with video.  I can’t figure out how to get them on the email post.

We got to Hawaii last evening and we’re working this morning.

Today they sorted the steers, replacement heifers and market heifers after gathering and sorting cows and calves yesterday.

Next we processed the replacement and market heifers, the the market heifers were shipped to “dairy fence weaning pens”

We went up to Dairy Fence and they had been worked with and were settling in real nice.  Notice no bawling and they had been pulled off cows yesterday, processed, and hauled about 25 miles.

The Parker Ranch crew have really hooked on to stockmanship, are working as a team and it is really working as these videos show.