Pen Riders and Pen Walkers – The Heart of Feedlot Cattle Care By Dr. Tom Noffsinger, Production Animal Consultation
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aregivers that perform daily pen evaluations spend more time with cattle than any other team at the feedyard. Pen rider focus has evolved over time from negative to positive, from detection of abnormal cattle to creation of cattle health and wellbeing. Likewise, I continue to refine my own thought processes as I learn from the teachers and mentors around me. For example, Ted Howard, Shane Morrissey, and Lucy Morrissey have demonstrated the valuable harmony between stockmanship and horsemanship and the importance of asking my horse to move his feet in cadence with the foot motion of the cattle.
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