- Location
- Huntingdon, UK
Any recommendations for some? Got a Kruse Hot Shot here and it’s good, but can’t find anywhere to buy any more?
Cattle stick
- Thread starter Andrew
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Danllan
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- Location
- Sir Gar / Carms
? Alkathene and a bit of patience... 
- Location
- Galloway
Hazel.or ash must be more money in your cattle than mine if you buy fancy sticks
- Location
- Huntingdon, UK
? Alkathene and a bit of patience...
FABBL don’t like them, and it’s so much easier to work them with a proper paddle.
- Location
- East Sussex
Always cut a new Hazel stick when the last one gets broken. Again never seen enough money in the job to splash out on cosmetics!
I'd rather give the dog an extra bit of feed.
I'd rather give the dog an extra bit of feed.
Dukes Fit
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Hot Shot Prodder with Flexi Shaft
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What a load of ? a piece of blue pipe is perfect light and cheap. These cattle prods and wooden sticks shouldn’t be used in my opinion. A piece of 20mm blue pipe should be used to tap them to let them know your there and to make it so you don’t have to get so close to them
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
What’s the difference in a wooden stick to a length of alkethene pipe...
- Location
- Huntingdon, UK
The sticks I’m referring to aren’t prods. They are a light fibreglass handle with a plastic paddle on the end which has a rattle built in. You’ve obviously not used one so how can you comment what works on our system?
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
A stick should only be an extension of the arm ?
- Location
- East Sussex
when you’re working in yards or amongst them a piece of pipe doesn’t go through your chest when one backs up.
- Location
- Huntingdon, UK
Exactly. And a plastic paddle makes it more visible and therefore more effective. Put ot on front of their face in a race and they stop. Put a blue stick in the same place and they don’t see it
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Surely your arm would flex before you ended up with a stake through the heart...
- Location
- Huntingdon, UK
This sort of thing. Less than £15 last time.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Just tie a empty feed bag on the end of a piece of pipe
- Location
- Huntingdon, UK
Tried it today, nowhere near as effective. I can normally stand at the back of the race and sort cows from calves by putting the paddle in front of the calves, but just didn’t work today.
They work so well for our system I’d happily pay £50 for one, it’d still be value for money. Just can’t find them to buy now.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
- Location
- East Sussex
Yes, it was an extreme example but I’ve been with others that have sticks and I’ve thought I might have felt safer with plastic when a cow has backed up against their stick and the it’s come in my direction. Many also cut them too long and they’re nothing but a nuisance
- Location
- Huntingdon, UK
Thats the next option, no rattle though.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
