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<blockquote data-quote="TexasJerseyMilker" data-source="post: 1766546" data-attributes="member: 42782"><p>Thank you for your experience and advice. My heifer wears a crisscrossing calf halter with a ring. Daphne my old pet cow has an actual cow halter. It has an adjustable throat latch and a jerk chain if needed under the chin. She wears it all the time. I did have it on my jers/angus yearling but she became unhalter broke so I sold her to the ranch across the road. When I put the halter back on Daphne, hadn't been put back on her in a while and her old aggressive head swing behavior reappeared. Such a sweet natured animal too.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]21595[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p> I just don't want to get hurt. You have to teach horses to respect your space. It's horse body language. I pet you, you do not pet me unless your invited. With animals there is the balance of approach/avoidance. For instance, when people bottle feed buck fawns they lose their avoidance. When they grow antlers they approach and kill people.</p><p></p><p>People making lap pets out of show bulls- not a great idea. Gosh, I knew an Angus bull named Peanut. He was bottle raised and a big pet, was a show bull then a herd sire. The owner was going to move away to west Texas and I wanted to buy Peanut. He was the sire of Daphne's first calf and he made a #3 grade black steer. But I got to thinking What if I go outside in the dark and an overly friendly black bull was standing there. Coming over getting all friendly he could break your ribs just trying to get a fly.</p><p></p><p>Tomorrow is the heifers last meal of milk replacer. No need to save some powder frozen, the Milkyway feed store is open 7 days a week. Her pushy behavior is mostly associated with the milk bucket. She won't be getting anymore food from me that is not put in her manger. When I lead her I twirl the rope behind me so she doesn't come up all pushy. I think she'll be alright.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasJerseyMilker, post: 1766546, member: 42782"] Thank you for your experience and advice. My heifer wears a crisscrossing calf halter with a ring. Daphne my old pet cow has an actual cow halter. It has an adjustable throat latch and a jerk chain if needed under the chin. She wears it all the time. I did have it on my jers/angus yearling but she became unhalter broke so I sold her to the ranch across the road. When I put the halter back on Daphne, hadn't been put back on her in a while and her old aggressive head swing behavior reappeared. Such a sweet natured animal too. [ATTACH type="full" alt="thumbnail_daphne flymask.jpg"]21595[/ATTACH] I just don't want to get hurt. You have to teach horses to respect your space. It's horse body language. I pet you, you do not pet me unless your invited. With animals there is the balance of approach/avoidance. For instance, when people bottle feed buck fawns they lose their avoidance. When they grow antlers they approach and kill people. People making lap pets out of show bulls- not a great idea. Gosh, I knew an Angus bull named Peanut. He was bottle raised and a big pet, was a show bull then a herd sire. The owner was going to move away to west Texas and I wanted to buy Peanut. He was the sire of Daphne's first calf and he made a #3 grade black steer. But I got to thinking What if I go outside in the dark and an overly friendly black bull was standing there. Coming over getting all friendly he could break your ribs just trying to get a fly. Tomorrow is the heifers last meal of milk replacer. No need to save some powder frozen, the Milkyway feed store is open 7 days a week. Her pushy behavior is mostly associated with the milk bucket. She won't be getting anymore food from me that is not put in her manger. When I lead her I twirl the rope behind me so she doesn't come up all pushy. I think she'll be alright. [/QUOTE]
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