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Jeff Bectell on Predator Management

Welcome to the Cattlemen's Corner. I'm Brian Hale sitting in for the late HowardHale as we continue his legacy of speaking with Cattlemen and women fromaround the globe. Jeff Bekdle who wrenches near Cardston, Alberta says that bearsare a problem and people need to find better solutions. Let's listen into theconversation with David Woodruff and Jeff Bectell. 
When you wean how many do wean?
We run around 200 mother cows. How is your calving percentage? Depends on theyear I guess. Yeah like everybody I wish we had less death loss than we do but we probably are somewhere between three and eight percent on average somewhere in there most of the time over the whole season. 
Up there in that higher country predators can that be a problem to you? I don't have consistent problems but occasional problems. Yep and usually somebody in the neighborhood loses something to a grizzly bear every year but we don't all lose something all the time. Yeah how about cougars and they have a problem to you? On my place I mean that we don't have a whole lot of brush we've seen them once in a while but I we've not had any cougar problems. None of the neighbors have real cougar problems either once in a while something crazy happens. I think it's more of the the sheep guys that have a few more cougar problems. Oh yeah the cows have a tendency to school them a little bit maybe. Yeah it doesn't seem like there is vulnerable to cougars as the small stuff is. The now grizzly bear that's hard to talk jerky to. Yeah that's funny I don't know sometimes sometimes the cows will chase a bear out of the field and sometimes the bears will kill something so you don't know exactly what the difference is. 
Jeff Bechtel and our host David Woodruff that's it for today's Cattleman's Corner thanks again for listening in May God Bless. I'm Brian Hale.

Jeff Bectell on Horse Usage

CATTLEMAN'S CORNER for January 5, 2026
[Brian Hale]Welcome to the Cattlemen's Corner. I'm Brian Hale sitting in for the late Howard Hale as we continue his legacy of speaking with cattlemen and women from around the globe. 
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[David Woodruff]We're talking to Jeff Bechtel from Cardston. When do you ween? 
[Jeff Bectell]Mid-October generally. You take calves and and background or do you sell them immediately? We generally sell right off the the ratchet weaning. We've got 30 or so left around with a few we held back and then replacement heifer calves. So what kind of cattle do you run? We're running a red Angus-Saler cross. 
[David Woodruff]The last time we talked, we didn't talk horses much. How much do horses play into your operation?
[Jeff Bectell]
Well we definitely use our horses, but probably not as much as we'd like to. Sometimes you just feel like you don't quite have time to catch the horse and saddle them up and enjoy it. You can do something quicker. But we use our horses a fair bit in the spring when we're checking calves and moving pairs and that sort of thing and then and then some of our moves we use the horses and then definitely when we're rounding up at our place in the neighbors and branding time and things we use the horses more. 
[Brian Hale]Thanks again for listening and may God bless. I'm Brian Hale.
 
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