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This article was published 23/02/2024 (572 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
If you’ve ever wondered how bison producers handle their animals, the answer can be two-fold — carefully and coaxingly.
As producers and workers at the Keystone Centre began unloading the first of these great Prairie sentinels for the weekend’s No Borders Show, Sale & Convention at the Westoba Agriculture Centre of Excellence, it was clearly a mix of both.
The Brandon Sun’s Matt Goerzen was on scene while several bulls and heifers were in the process of being unloaded and weighed right off the trailer just after the noon hour on Thursday. Workers moved the bison into various pens in the facility that will house the animals for the duration of the event.
Workers attempt to coax a stubborn bison bull out of a trailer and into a portable bison corral at the Keystone Centre's Westoba Agricultural Centre of Excellence on Thursday afternoon, in preparation for the No Borders Show, Sale & Convention 2024, hosted by the Manitoba Bison Association and the Saskatchewan Bison Association, which starts today. (Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun)
One bull, however, was having none of it. As the last bison left on a long trailer, the bull absolutely refused to walk down the chute to be weighed, and for about 40 minutes handlers attempted to coax him off the trailer. The main image in the photo essay shows the bull through the chute gates as handlers attempt to move him out with rags on a stick.
The No Borders Show, Sale & Convention will wrap up on Saturday.
» Photos by Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun
