Yep sort them off and get them hungry, try pellets or smaller cubes to start with. I've bought cows before that were "cake broke" til I got them home LOL. Once they learn how they never forget.
I've never heard of using beetles, you can usally smell it if taxidemist cut corners. I do it myself all you need is a pot big enough to submerge the whole skull in and some sort of burner. Use "Arm & Hammer" super wash baking soda laundry soap. Bring water and soap to a roiling boil and throw...
I kinda had my doubts about it, I thought maybe you would have some problems with scours and cows milking to heavy at first on all that grass. The calves seemed to really grow and catch up over the summer from what I could see. And I must say I don't think I've ever seen cows in better rig come...
I like to feed hay loose from the stack haybuster or slide stack alfalfa or grass. A mfd. drive tractor with a dozer blade pulling a weber stackmover and baker hydrafork does a darn fine job of it for me. And a Welker caker to string cake. Can feed a pile of cows and a man don't have to work to...
Good shots. Can almost see my place in the second picture haha. About fifty miles north and on the other side of the butte. One of these days I want to saddle up with the kids and ride from the badlands and into the sandhills, would be a fun couple days. Did the hound pass up a rein to chew on a...
Prayers will be greatly appreciated by his family.
As a nieghbor and friend I worked for and traded help for many years with this man. He taught me a hell of alot. I rode thousands of miles gatherin rodeo stock and doing the cattle works with him. He was a cowboy and could read stock like a...