Swapping mules for horses safer and cheaper for feedlot rider, and the social media attention is a bonus

Kelly Dudley has found mules to be more sure-footed than horses, and therefore safer. (ABC Landline: Halina Baczkowski)

When you see a farmer moving livestock, they're normally on a horse, motorbike, or in a chopper.

But a Queensland feedlot worker has turned her back on those methods. She says she's found something safer — a mule.