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I totally get that. Our beef steer scared me, partly because he was so friendly. He had zero flight zone (my daughter rode him, so we weren't going to make him nervous flapping our arms about) and he'd come running in if he saw a bucket. For awhile, we practiced leading him on his halter from...

Here, too! Although it was more my husband who thought it was great fun to push on our beef steer's head and sort of wrestle with him. Great fun until he weighed 1200 pounds and my 13 year old daughter was supposed to try to lead him by halter for 4H. He was such a pussy cat, but just had that...

Question here. I have small cattle (Dexters) and they are the sweetest things. Dehorned for all the above reasons, but I've never thought anything of them rubbing on me. The dominant one will sometimes sneak in a little shove but I say hey and she backs up. The submissive one will gently rub her...

I groom our heifers, but that's because they're to be our family milk cows and I want them to be gentle. While we sit and wait for calves, it is the best thing to do to get them used to us. The steer was for a 4H show and we groomed him and actually used shampoo and conditioner once in awhile...

Great advice! We wanted ours to be grassfed as well, and they hopefully will be next spring if these pesky drought ends, but they aren't getting much grain. I would highly recommend the book Grass-Fed Cattle: How to Produce and Market Natural Beef. Obviously, there's a lot in there you don't...

I would recommend looking into Dexters. They are not a miniature breed because to be a miniature, there has to be a standard sized equivalent. This is just how big they get (approximately three feet at the shoulders, give or take). We love ours so much. We got two this past spring and the older...

It actually sounds like a decent mix for a good all around farm dog and that may be more what you need than an LGD, anyway. I am speaking from my experience with English Shepherds, not LGDs. (We just got a Great Pyrenees, but I don't know what I'm doing and mostly hoping that what I read on the...

Yeah, I think I'd pass on taking in someone else's problem. But it is good to think about. We have a Great Pyrenees that is doing wonderfully bonding with our cattle. One of our heifers is off visiting a bull and the other is lonely and he spends so much time slobbering up her ears and loving...