I like exploring the best pressure to move any kind of livestock, but moving horses is my favorite. It is good for grass management, and with bringing them in in the daytime and dry lotting it keeps them from getting over fat or foundering.

Having a herd of horses that handle when being driven sure doesn’t hurt anything and I can’t see any negatives in moving a bunch of horses from point a to point b.

We have a small place here, but I try to manage the cattle, horses and grass the best way I can, and I find that doing things very traditional is very good.

We had an console stereo when I was a kid. We didn’t have many records, but Marty Robbins “Gunfighter Ballads was one I listened to a lot, and 160 acres was one I really liked. This is the song I had in my head this morning riding out to get my horses.

Getting animals to a feed source and having them in a state of mind to consume and utilize the feed source to the maximum is a very important part of the role of the stockman.  I feel we sometimes miss this simple mindset because of all the other things we have to do in modern livestock production.

We have become so intent on the things that we have to do to administer the things people can sell us to increase profit we forget or don’t even understand the value of simply getting livestock to be comfortable and have the desire to consume feed rather than worry about everything around them.

Hopefully these videos help you get to thinking on how to get animals placed and comfortable where you want them.

https://gopro.com/v/NlDO2vb9OWQ0r

https://gopro.com/v/bQGo4peebBrJz

Everything I thought I was filming camera was off, and I was filming when I didn’t know it was on. I was taking cattle to my river pasture so I was singing a Tom Russell song about the trail drive to Montana.

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