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6-21-16 sect. 1.qxp:Layout 1 6/16/16 11:56 AM Page 1 Grandin emphasizes stockmanship at 5th International Symposium on Beef Cattle Welfare By Donna Sullivan, Editor and they all had the lower worse.” The one message that Dr. hair whorls. Cattle overall Grandin emphasized that Temple Grandin has champi- are getting calmer.” an animal’s first experience oned throughout her career is But she cautioned against with a new person, place or that stockmanship matters. over-emphasizing tempera- piece of equipment needs to And the world-renowned ment. “We don’t want to turn be a good one. “New things Colorado State University beef cattle into a bunch of are scary when you shove professor and livestock han- Holsteins,” she warned. them in their face,” she said. dling expert didn’t vary from “That would probably be a “But they are attractive when that theme as she presented really bad idea because we they voluntarily approach. A at the 5th International Sym- want a cow that’s going to basic principle is that when posium on Beef Cattle Wel- defend her calf.” you force animals to do fare hosted by Kansas State She also pointed out that something, you’re going to University’s Beef Cattle In- temperament scores can be get a lot more fear stress than stitute in early June. She pre- changed with experience, by when they voluntarily go sented a great deal of re- acclimating cattle to new through the facility.” search illustrating the corre- people and experiences. Un- Grandin said she has seen lation between how cattle are fortunately, people don’t al- an improvement in people’s handled and their overall ways want to take the time attitudes towards animals performance. for that. and stockmanship over the “The bottom line is, calm “I’ve found in my long years and believes the per- cattle gain more weight,” she career that people want the sonality of the person han- stated. She discussed using magical thing more than they dling the animals has a direct chute scores to measure cat- want the management. They affect on the their perform- tle temperament, but added want the magic drug, the ance. “The confident intro- the method works best with magic computer, the magic vert had higher producing manual chutes. “It doesn’t facility. If I had a choice, dairy cows than the happy, work very well in the hy- would I rather have an older social Charlie,” she said of draulic chutes that hold them adequate facility with really one study. “More and more so tight you can’t measure good management and people have gotten interested how much they’re jumping stockmanship, or state of the in having good stockman- around.” She shared other re- art with bad management? ship, but there’s still a bunch search that measures how I’ll take the older but ade- of rough stuff going on, it fast they come out of the quate. But it does have to be hasn’t gone away yet.” But chute as an indicator of tem- at least adequate.” she hopes that through use of Colorado State University professor and world-renowned livestock handling expert perament. “In the last twenty “Animals remember what things like chute scores and Temple Grandin was one of the presenters at the 5th International Symposium on years, cattle have been get- we do to them,” Grandin other temperament measure, Beef Cattle Welfare hosted by Kansas State University’s Beef Cattle Institute earlier ting calmer and calmer,” she continued. “If we handle things will continue to im- this month. Photo by Donna Sullivan pointed out. Research in the them quietly and use good prove. “You can’t manage early 1990s correlated the cattle with higher hair whorls. “I’ve noticed just in said. “And U.S. genetics are stockmanship, they’re going what you don’t measure,” position of hair whorls on whorls tending to get more the last few years that I can showing up in England. I to be easier to handle in the she said. “We’ve got to pre- the cattle’s heads as an indi- agitated during handling hardly find an animal now went to three different beef future. If we handle them vent bad from becoming nor- cator of temperament, where than those with lower hair with a high hair whorl,” she farms in England recently badly, they’re going to be mal.” Kansans reclaim State Cowboy Poetry title After out-of-staters Jones, Salina; 2nd, Dana Justice Lawton Nuss of the nor’s Buckle, the Saddlejack time. The state winners will dent, Kansas Chapter of claimed the trophy buckle Moodie, Neodesha; and 3rd, Kansas Supreme Court, Rep- Bradrick Award, discounts also have their entry fees Western Music Association, during the last two years of Betty Burlingham, Manhat- resentative Sydney Carlin, and gift certificates from paid to compete in the Na- Greenwood County; Brad the Kansas cowboy poetry tan. Humorous - 1st, Carl Representative Tom Phillips, leading western wear stores, tional Cowboy Poetry Rodeo Hamilton, western entertain- contest, it was a clean sweep Stueve, Olpe; 2nd, Danny Marie Martin from the Flint two tickets to The Sympho- in Abilene. er from Hoyt; Geff Dawson, for Kansas in 2016 as Jerry McCurry, Springfield, Mis- Hills Discovery Center ny in the Flint Hills, and the State contest committee Alma, two-time national po- Jones of Salina and Carl souri; and 3rd, Dwight Foundation, and Donna Sul- opportunity to present their members include: Abby etry rodeo champion; and Stueve of Olpe claimed the Burgess, Wamego. livan, editor of Grass & poems at the story circle fol- Amick, Alma, Volland Store Trey Allen, Junction City, top prizes. Jones won first Only those who finished Grain,” Wilson said. lowing the symphony. Lieu- marketing director; Tracy past Kansas champion. For place in the serious poem in the top three at one of As Kansas state champi- tenant Governor Jeff Colyer Henry, Wabaunsee County more information, go to category and Stueve won in three regional qualifying ons, Jones and Stueve re- presented the buckles to the Economic Development di- www.cowboypoetrycontest.c the humorous poem catego- contests could compete at ceived the coveted Gover- winners during story circle rector; Jeff Davidson, presi- om. ry. the state finals, held at the Final results were as fol- Flint Hills Discovery Center lows: Serious – 1st, Jerry in Manhattan. Others who qualified for the state finals included Marci Broyhill, Dakota City, Nebraska; John Cannon, Fredonia; C.W. Harris, Hepler; Robert Lakey, Wichita; and Don Welborn, Meriden. “Thanks again to our major donor, the Flint Hills Discovery Center Founda- tion, and our other sponsors: The Symphony in the Flint Hills, the Kansas Chapter of the Western Music Associa- tion; Drovers National Hall of Fame, Putnam Quarter Horses; and Vanderbilt’s, Boot Barn, Roberts Cowboy Outfitters and R Bar B Sad- dle Tack and Trailer who are donating prizes for the win- ners,” said state poetry con- test chair Ron Wilson of Manhattan. “We appreciate our excel- Contestants in the State Cowboy Poetry contest were, from left: Don Welborn, Danny McCurry, Jerry Jones, Dana lent celebrity judges: Chief Moodie, Carl Stueve, Betty Burlingham, Marci Broyhill, Dwight Burgess, and John Cannon. Photo by Ken Sullivan 6-21-16 sect. 1.qxp:Layout 1 6/16/16 11:57 AM Page 2 Page 2 Grass & Grain, June 21, 2016 in its own right, inherent of the community I grew up in into a broad smile and share any prairie cyclone. The old early settler architecture – went so far as to label an an experience or two of gent loved his retreat and the sturdy and inspirational outhouse the very seat of their time spent in the privy. spent many an hour in his “Little House on the government – a place where While we always enjoyed palace on the prairie. Prairie.” equality of all people was indoor plumbing, I can re- His wife, on the other To Midwesterners and perceptible and indeed un- member Sundays at my hand, considered this privy By John Schlageck, as different and original as High Plains dwellers the deniable. Uncle Lloyd’s in Phillips overbuilt, unnecessary and Kansas Farm Bureau the men whose job it was to outhouse has always Built with a few broad County. His family still used she remarked on more than Several images surface build them. This column is seemed a fitting memorial boards, wide sweeping strap an outdoor toilet. one occasion that she as we dust off the cobwebs dedicated to those prairie to the ingenuity and practi- hinges and a bold slice cut I was less than thrilled wished the main house she of our minds and reflect dwellers across Kansas who, cality of our forefathers – through the doorway, it was about doing my business in lived in were as well built as back on rural Kansas and in the middle of pioneering those restless, imaginative as solidly based as the dis- this dark, dank establish- her husband’s “s_ _ _ house.” those days of years gone by. this great state, still took spirits who first caught the tant barn itself. Usually a ment. To begin with, there And one more story I re- Red barns, silver-steel time for moments of contem- scent of opportunity in the two-seater, it was equipped was a distinct odor I wasn’t call became legend in windmills, cream separa- plation. westerly breeze. And for all with flies, hornets, mosqui- fond of. I could never relax northwestern Kansas. It was tors, harvest crews, Burma- Kansas outhouses were a its many charms, the privy toes, spiders, corncobs or a while imagining the black told about a special out- Shave signs and certainly reflection of its people – the has gone the way of the Sears & Roebuck.

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