Quote Originally Posted by ductape View Post
The people around here that raise bison have a fence made of railroad ties and head chutes that might hold an angry bull. Kudos to you and anyone else who deals with that.
Well, there is an old saying - you can make them do anything they want to.

I learned a long time ago that if I could work that method, my life and their life was much, much easier. A simple example was when I needed to capture the herd in the corral, I would shut off all other water sources except the corral. Wait a day and they know where the only water is, so if they are outside the corral, close the corral gate and let them get thirsty. Wait some hours, and then open the gate and they will all walk in calmly and close the gate behind them. It worked every time.

When I had to cowboy it, that was hard on the buffies, hard on me, hard on the truck (my trusty steed to wrangle the herd), and I didn't get them where I wanted them much faster. My truck couldn't accelerate as fast, nor turn as fast. A horse wouldn't have been able to do any better. The buffies could do 0 to 25mph in three steps.

Tough facilities are there for when they get their space compressed and they aren't happy about it because they don't want to do what those stupid two legged things want. That is when you sometimes need your brown pants...