Tri Tip

If you read much or know me you know I really like to eat.  If you have eaten with me, you know I like meat, and beef is the meat of choice.  I like steak, burger, and all kinds of beef except liver.

Today I got to enjoy one of my favorite cuts and preparation methods of beef.  Californio style tri-tip is soo good.  Add in the facts that it was prepared in the traditional style of an oak fire ten feet from the cattle pens at Visalia Cattle Market with Ian Tyson and Dave Stacey music playing in the background, and I shared a meal with great producers of the very product we were eating, and we ate off the bed of a real nice truck with one of my favorite people, Jill Scofield,  it just doesn’t get any better than that.

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I had a real nice set of calves to work with in my demonstration and the ring is good sized.  We had had a conference call a while ago and Randy Baxley and his wife Beth who run the outfit wanted to really focus on producers working their calves better for BQA and industry standards.  California Beef Council agreed and shared in getting me there.  So that was the focus of the demonstration.

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The calves they let me use were great and really responded to pressure with a lot of feel. After Dinner I got to visit with Dick Knox who has supported BQA for a long time in California, and Celeste Settrini, who is a big supporter of it now.  It was a real nice day for the guy with the best job in the world.

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Seat 3B music

It was Ian Tyson’s 85th birthday last week, heard about it on KGHL radio.

We drove by “Deadman Creek” on the way to Kamloops from Williams lake (if you are not a fan, Tyson sings about went there riding colts when young.

I sat in seat 3B on my flight from Calgary to San Francisco.  The Visalia Stocksaddle Company was famous for the tree by that name.

i am working in Visalia, California tomorrow at the auction market.

With all those reminders how could I not feature this song.

Ian, thank you for all the great music and keeping it traditional.

More TRU stockmanship

The students do a report on what they learned or observed in the stockmanship days.  I thought these were real good observations.  Liam came from a logging background and had a real fresh and open mind.  He created positive pressure for animals and people.

 

Low Stress Cattle handling

Liam Dennison

ASUR 1040-3

Sept 27 2018

 

• calm yet direct approach toward cattle
• 3 types of pressure.  Drive, draw and maintain
• Cattle don’t like pressure from behind because they cannot see where you are.
• Cattle have two mind states. Reaction and thinking
• Cattle only think about one thing at a time
• Always have gates with the flow of cattle
• When sorting cattle, it is a good idea to have a numbering system to avoid need for communication in loud conditions
• Bud box is a effective way to move cattle thru shoots
• Hotshots are a effective way to move cattle when you cannot create more forward pressure then they feel backward
• A release off pressure can be just as effective as a driving pressure
• Being on horse can be an advantage by being able to see above cattle and the cows in front
• Pneumonia is a result of an infection that was already present in the cattle
• Sub Q needles should be 5/8”-1/4”
• A new needle should be used every time it is used to refill from a bottle
• Colostrum must be sucked within 12 hours of birth
• Multi shot syringe is to be cleaned with hot water only
• Vaccines should be spaced 10cm apart or a hand width
• Synovex c implant can increase calf crop by 25%
This is a video Herman to and it shows how his horse bobbing its head put too much pressure on the geese and caused them to fly.  Our cattle don’t fly, so I don’t think we see that we are having an effect on the animals fear or aggravation level, but we are.
This is a great example of the effect of just a little change in pressure causing a reaction on one animal and feeding through the whole herd.
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