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When training calves as oxen, use a step-by-step plan. Start by handling them often, tying, grooming, teaching them to lead with a halter. Then they are ready for a yoke. At first, keep one or both of ...

‘Yo, cow. C’mon, cow. Let’s go, cow.” Thirteen-year-old Ruby Clark tugs fruitlessly at the blue halter rope looped around Cow No. 40, aka Anastasia, trying to move the 1,500-pound beast out of the ...