Or hogs......or chickens?

Cows kept on small pastures, so no need to round them up. Call them and they come running on their own.

We whistle and ours will come.

A bucket used to do the trick, but in the new age even the animals may react differently, lol.

Personally I don't know anybody who has had cattle for long that doesn't call them in some manner. Whether it is a long "Heeey Bosss, Heey Bosss" which I have known a lot of ranchers to use, including my Grandpa. Easy on the vocal cords and carries in the wind well. Know guys who train them to come to honking of the pickup horn or even a siren in big open range areas.

Goats, horses, cattle, all trained to call, some better than others.

Around here they just start honking the horn

Neighbors use a siren. I use the horn.

I call them steaks roasts and hamburger.

All animals I’ve had know it is me who calls them. I use an age old European musical call that is very unique for them to recognize, at distance. They always come running.

I’ve even had wild animals become used to me using the same type call.

Opening creak of the barn door and shake of the blue bucket with a little cracked corn and molasses in the bottom and they would come running, seeing which one could get through the door first.

I call my cows because the farm I rent is so rough I cant see them. If they are close enough to hear my atv they will come to it from the sound of it. Generally, though I get off and shout at them with a whoop and cmmon girls........

I chuckle because I just listened to that sound above and that call is about what I sound like calling them - the whoop part of it.......spot on

Guess it goes without saying, but for those wondering, a call means nothing if there isn't a reward......which is what falls out of a 5 gallon feed bucket.

One of clearest examples I had was summer I spent playing cowboy for a guy.......got hired to AI about 200 angus heifers. He had them running on 160 acres, and you had to get them up twice a day to do heat checks. There was me and an old farmer and owner put us on horses to round them up. No reward so they really didn't want to go in the pen. Like herding cats with a broom. After a couple weeks I got tired of that and got some bulk feed to toll them in with. Started with them in the pen, and would dump the feed out and bang on the empty bucket after dumping the feed into some feed bunks. Took all of about 3 days to train them to come running and never had to saddle a horse for that the rest of the summer.

Now that pickings out in the pastures are slim, don't have to call much. But they come running to our call, a "whoooaa" carries good even on a windy day. Clanga clanga of a cattle trailer has opposite effect. I'll usually get them in the corral while Dad sits at next crossroad with trailer. Always carry a bucket with me, have gotten call from sheriff's depth cows out, can use bucket with roadside gravel to shake and lead them anywhere

Commmm Eat, Commmm Eat

That is what I would say, and they came a running

Easiest way to get them gathered. Call and reward. Some get a little overzealous though.

Works with the wife's ducks as well

Once the corn harvest was off we used to let the dairy herd graze many fields on the farm in the fall. They could be half mile away almost. I would walk up to the closest higher ground and bang two metal buckets together and within 5-10 minutes the barn was full.

Bryce

I sold my cattle right after covid started, because I was worried about being able to sell because of government shutdowns and wanted more cash reserves. My cattle were trained to come running to "Sook Cow!!!". They were very responsive.

Keith