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Northern Rancher
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| Pack a video camera at all times-a 35 foot extrasoft should work fine.
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Hoop
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Location: Northern Michigan
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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| If ya do, make sure the cameras running and we all will be able to watch the following week on Funniest Home Vidieos
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lazy ace
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Location: Grand River Casino
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| pack a knife too that way if things come unglued you can cut and run.
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Justin
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Location: NW South Dakota
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RobinFarmandRanch
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Location: in da swamps of south LA
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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| excuse my french but i think your askin for an a$$ whoopin if you do that. ive seen some show cows become a mudslinger wannabe the minute a rope gets around their neck. take it from someone who knows, dont rope one off a four wheeler, especially if youve never thrown a rope before. my suggestion is load them up and bring them to the closest stockyard. usually they will let you doctor them over there.
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Ben H
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Location: Gorham, ME
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I'd just buy one of these http://www.telusplanet.net/public/medidart/whatis.html
I bought the bow, haven't had to use it yet. It can use larger capacities then dart guns, it has a little loop around the needle that pushes the dart out of the animal when it's done dispensing.
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Ben H
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Location: Gorham, ME
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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I'd just buy one of these http://www.telusplanet.net/public/medidart/whatis.html
I bought the bow, haven't had to use it yet. It can use larger capacities then dart guns, it has a little loop around the needle that pushes the dart out of the animal when it's done dispensing.
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gcreekrch
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Location: west chilcotin bc
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Ben H
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Location: Gorham, ME
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| The reason I got that bow, was that you can treat an animal without stressing them. They aren't supposed to associate the "prick" from you because you aren't directly handling them. One of my focuses is low stress handling. It's hard not to stress animals when you chase them with an ATV.
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Dylan Biggs
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Location: hanna,alberta
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| i wouldn't try ropin' off of the 4-wheeler, that is begging to be involved in a wreck. the safe thing would be to trail the calf to the corral. |
Depending on distance from a corral I would tend to agree with Justin. Get the calf paired and walk them in then, depending on what you are treating for if you need to treat a second time you can just leave them in the corral.
Getting a calf roped the first time is almost always easier than the second.
As far as ropes for calves I prefer a poly also because of the weight of it especially the way the wind blows here and 35 feet.
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Triple_S
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Location: NC
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We don't have any horses here so i'm in the same boat with you. We do this all the time. Guess we're idiots, but we get the job done.
We just drive up kinda close to them, get off (don't rope from a motorized vehicle) and throw the rope. Works well with two people. Kinda hard by yourself. I usually get someone to go with me. One of us ropes the calf, the other wraps the front bar on the polaris to hold the rope (don't tie it, just wrap it a couple times, you can let it go before someone seriously gets hurt) Now this polaris probally wieghs 2-3 times what an atv does so remember that. One of you hold the rope, the other one climb down the rope and do your best impression of bulldogging. (this can be great entertainment for the man holding the rope, the bigger the calf is the funnier it gets) Once its on the ground keep your fingers in its mouth and its head twisted back and the other man can come doctor.
Seriously, this works really well and relativley safe up to 300lbs. After that it gets rougher. 400-500lbs is doable but you better be pretty tough and commited. Biggest we ever did was a 750lb heifer but she was pretty sick so she didn't fight too much.
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Triple_S
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| I should add that I deffinatly agree with everyone that penning them in the corral is by far the better choice. If you can trail them to the corral then by all means do it. The way I described is a last resort or spur of the moment thing. If it's something you're gonna need to treat more then once, just remember, it gets twice as hard everytime.
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