Posts by Tim & Ginny
The Five Foundations of Low-Stress Livestock Handling
1. Mindset: Mindset is how you think about your cattle. Traditionally, livestock handlers view working cattle as a job that has to be done, with the approach of “this is how we’ve always done it,” or “cattle are stupid and we have to fight them to get them to do what we want.” Stockmanship requires…
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1. Keep animals in a normal frame of mind This is the essential part of all animal training. Their minds need to be in some state of homeostasis and not to stressed so that they can think. Thinking is a cognitive state, and it is there that they learn to solve problems thru an understanding of…
Read MoreThe Story of Sasha: Making a Stock Dog
Chapter One The Nature of Natural’s Stockmanship project main objective is to promote the use of the principles set forth by Bud Williams and commonly known as Low Stress Stockmanship. The Nature of Natural promotes the ethical application of Applied Behavioral Science and we feel that Bud’s principles are very much in line with that…
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Not Mr. ED but continuing Ed Here at the Nature of Natural we’re big believers in the principles of applied behavioral science and use systematic training protocols for all creatures large and small including humans. By training and schooling in systematics steps that are in sync with the horse’s innate tendencies such as balance, we…
Read MoreAmazing Nature
When I first wrote “The Nature of Natural” in 2004 I was trying to connect all of the proven methods of training horses with principles that are found in Nature, thus the name “The Nature of Natural”. At that time and to this day, I have been an advocate and student of Tom Dorrance and Ray…
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In the Beginning: In 2004 I wrote the original Nature of Natural document and chose the name Nature of Natural with the idea of what actually occurred in nature. That being how minds work, how they learn, and what adaptive qualities were involved in the behavior of horses. At the time, the movement known as…
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