[Jacob-list] Catching Rams

[Cathy Robinson]

The usual method here has always been to get them into a small catch 
area by letting them think there is food involved, and then squeezing 
them down into a smaller area...with no way of escape.  I have to laugh 
when I watch Greg catch Erasmus, who has to be the calmest ram we have 
ever owned.  He is usually interested enough in what is going on with 
the young guys that he will approach to watch and just stand there.  
Greg walks up to him and takes his lateral (kind of reminds me of a man 
taking a lady's arm to escort her) and then the two of them walk 
together to his containment hut where he can be locked up, worked on, 
fed,  whatever.  It's pretty funny to watch!

Cathy
http://www.perfectspot-farm.com/index.html


> What's everyone's favorite way of catching adult rams?

>

> Dave likes to corner them, leaving them a narrow escape route, and 

> grab them as they run by. I can't do that well as that initial jolt to 

> my hand is more than my old hand can handle.


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