Bob Kinford teaches how to use a horse to sort cattle through a gate, breaking down the stance and back-and-forth movements needed to guide individual cows. He emphasizes practicing with many cattle to develop feel before increasing speed, offering step-by-step cues like "step up" and "back up" as each animal approaches.
Bye-bye. There's a yearling. Okay, move your horse back and forth. Anytime you see these cows, start moving back that way. Move your horse back and forth a little bit. Pour aider en combat. Bye-bye-bye-bye! Bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye. She can go out because she needed to go. She was in the wrong anyways. Back the horse up a little bit into that gate a little bit tighter. There you go. Ah, Bobby, you need to be a little bit faster. A little bit faster. That's okay. You're good. All it takes is practicing thousands of cows and you've got You step up, back up, and don't stay still. And when everything starts really getting the hang of it, then you can— then you can start worrying about doing it fast. Bye-bye. Okay, that last one's got to go in. So when she— when it goes in here, I'll step up here like this. We got that. Okay, now come right on across. Easy peasy. Okay, the gray one is going to go in, red one by. Step up there. Just go easy. Okay, now step back into there and we go by. And once your horse starts getting the handle of it and everything, then There you go. Step up and, and Bye. Bye. Bye. There you go, step right across there, Alice. Bye. All these bye, except for the last one.
