For a couple of years we have agisted cattle - initially we did this instead of purchasing our own as we were regularly travelling overseas for months at a time.  However now we are here most of the year.  We have hilly country but are inexperienced with mustering cattle. 

Having cattle agisted on the property has been useful in growing our experience by watching the owner interact with the cattle for drenching, mustering etc.  The owner musters by horses and his dogs.

So we do now know is that in order to muster you need dogs + bikes or horses.  Horses are too steep a learning curve for us so we probably need to start mustering the agisted cattle with bikes and get some cattle dogs of our own.

We are also considering growing out steer calves from 8months until the age where they would be able to go to market as grown steers. 

Any other suggestions?