Here’s a few of my Watusi.

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  • January 16, 2011 at 9:56 pm #42320
    houstonmule
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    Here a a couple of my Watusi. They might be hard to yoke together.

    January 16, 2011 at 10:09 pm #64894
    Dick Roosenberg
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    Beautiful animals! Better fed than most that I have seen in Uganda. But you may be surprised about yoking them. I have seen them unfazed by crossed horns while in the yoke.

    However, at their current ages, they may be more of a challenge to train.

    January 18, 2011 at 5:29 am #64892
    houstonmule
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    @Dick Roosenberg 23862 wrote:

    Beautiful animals! Better fed than most that I have seen in Uganda. But you may be surprised about yoking them. I have seen them unfazed by crossed horns while in the yoke.

    However, at their current ages, they may be more of a challenge to train.

    I for sure won’t try and yoke this bull. I would love to see someone try though, lol. He is quite a handfull and hates people. I’m toying with having a couple of his calves broke. Just an idea at this point. I would like to see if I could bring a team to someone and hire them to keep them for as long as it takes to train them to work and be safe. Then teach me what I need to know when they are broke. I have trained lots of horses and mules to drive but don’t know anything about training cows.

    January 19, 2011 at 4:30 am #64895
    Dick Roosenberg
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    @houstonmule 23930 wrote:

    I for sure won’t try and yoke this bull. I would love to see someone try though, lol. He is quite a handfull and hates people. I’m toying with having a couple of his calves broke. Just an idea at this point. I would like to see if I could bring a team to someone and hire them to keep them for as long as it takes to train them to work and be safe. Then teach me what I need to know when they are broke. I have trained lots of horses and mules to drive but don’t know anything about training cows.

    You should consider bringing a couple 3 to 12 Watusi calves to a Tillers’ Oxen Basics class to learn to train them and to work them all in the same week. We’d rather do that than train them for you.

    January 19, 2011 at 1:44 pm #64893
    houstonmule
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    Not a bad idea. When is it?

    January 23, 2011 at 7:14 pm #64891
    Patrick
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    I’d love to hear from someone in the US who has worked some, as far as what their general temperament is like as working animals.

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