I had a great opportunity to take Alli to a local branding. We gathered the cattle from the field and Alli wasn't sure what to think of the pivot that was irrigating the field. She was a little nervous, but with some encouraging, we rode under the pivot while it was irrigating. Once we had all the cattle in the pens, I was going to just let her sit in the branding pen and let her watch all the action with the ropers, ground crew and calves on the end of the ropes, but we were told to just heel the calves and bring them in to be branded. I thought if the calves were heeled, then there wouldn't be too much of a comotion so I just started roping and she didn't have a bit of problems with anything. Normally, a green colt will not want to walk through the ground crew, but Alli didn't have any problems with that. Also she did very well getting me into a good heel position when someone else had a calf by the neck. The buford has really helped her not be so nervous to get up to the calf. Before I decided to put Alli up for the day I roped a calf by the neck to see if she would get excited with the bawling calf on the end of the rope, but it didn't bother her at all. All in all it was a pretty positive experience.
I had a great opportunity to take Alli to a local branding. We gathered the cattle from the field and Alli wasn't sure what to think of the pivot that was irrigating the field. She was a little nervous, but with some encouraging, we rode under the pivot while it was irrigating. Once we had all the cattle in the pens, I was going to just let her sit in the branding pen and let her watch all the action with the ropers, ground crew and calves on the end of the ropes, but we were told to just heel the calves and bring them in to be branded. I thought if the calves were heeled, then there wouldn't be too much of a comotion so I just started roping and she didn't have a bit of problems with anything. Normally, a green colt will not want to walk through the ground crew, but Alli didn't have any problems with that. Also she did very well getting me into a good heel position when someone else had a calf by the neck. The buford has really helped her not be so nervous to get up to the calf. Before I decided to put Alli up for the day I roped a calf by the neck to see if she would get excited with the bawling calf on the end of the rope, but it didn't bother her at all. All in all it was a pretty positive experience.
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