Do your cattle
walk, trot or leap out of the
squeeze chute?
them a chute score — how they act when restrained — or how they act in an alley when you are sorting them,” says Bohnert. “We use infrared timers that tell
us their exact speed when they leave the chute. But from the producer’s perspective you can score them as to whether they walk out of the chute, trot out, or leap out and run around the corner to get out of there as fast as they can. A person can utilize some measure of temperament in their own operation,” he says. The Oregon studies found calm
cattle have a performance advantage. “The ones that are more aggres-
sive or fl ighty don’t do as well in a growing lot as the ones with mod- erate and mild temperament. We weren’t sure, however, how temper- ament would affect reproduction,” says Bohnert. “But it has turned out to show the benefi ts of working with these animals at a young age with low-stress handling.” Cattle can be trained to be more manageable and less wild, and this affects reproduc- tion rates favorably.
Why keep a problem? The other option, knowing that
temperament affects reproduction, is to cull the wild ones. Why keep that high-headed, crazy heifer? She’s not only less likely to breed quickly, but she’s a bad infl uence on all the others. She may have a calf every year, but what is she costing you in indirect ways that you may not know about or be able to measure? And if you keep her daughters and
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