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A few flicks of the day, 12-11-08

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Soapweed

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Along the feed row
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Snarfling it down with snowflakes in the air
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My dad took a picture of our cattle working crew. We summered 34 yearling heifers a few miles from home and hadn't gotten them preg-checked yet. Today was the day. We had 32 head done and all were safe with calf--just two to go. The 33rd one was pronounced pregnant. Peach administered shots and Dectomax, and I leaned down to stick in a new permanent ear tag. Wham! That old girl came up with her head as I went down with mine. We collided and she won. She tossed me fifteen feet out into the corral. Kinda think my nose is broke, but it's a long ways from my heart. There is a bit of blood to exhibit. :roll:
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I wobbled around and got the two tags in her ears and put a "7" year brand on her left shoulder. The last one came in, and she was the only one that was open. After taking note of her ear tag, it was remembered that she was half of a set of twins along with a bull for a brother. She sure enough turned out to be a "free martin" and is sterile. Now we have everything preg checked so we can at least think about something else. :-)
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My delightful daughter showing concern for her old man. :-)
 
ouch! that sounded like it might hurt a little bit, hope you feel better....you'll take a picture of any black eyes that may show up won't you?!
 
Hopefully you are getting all this pain and wounds outa your system! My heck, i hope ya heal up fine. As for the broken nose, you'll know soon enuff. Lots a swelling, bruising under and around both eyes and try not to sneeze or sniff to hard. I think a busted nose gives ya a rugged, tough, manly look! Atleast thats what i tell my spouse when she wishes mine was less crooked.
 
leanin' H said:
Hopefully you are getting all this pain and wounds outa your system! My heck, i hope ya heal up fine. As for the broken nose, you'll know soon enuff. Lots a swelling, bruising under and around both eyes and try not to sneeze or sniff to hard. I think a busted nose gives ya a rugged, tough, manly look! Atleast thats what i tell my spouse when she wishes mine was less crooked.
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Hope so. I need all the help I can get. :-)
 
Soapweed said:
leanin' H said:
Hopefully you are getting all this pain and wounds outa your system! My heck, i hope ya heal up fine. As for the broken nose, you'll know soon enuff. Lots a swelling, bruising under and around both eyes and try not to sneeze or sniff to hard. I think a busted nose gives ya a rugged, tough, manly look! Atleast thats what i tell my spouse when she wishes mine was less crooked.
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Hope so. I need all the help I can get. :-)
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Well ya may wanta QUIT HEAD-BUTTING COWS! :shock: :shock: :shock:
 
Faster horses said:
OOOUUUUUUCCCCCHHHHHHHH!!!

That happened to Mr. FH a long time ago and it also loosened his front
teeth so that they slanted back a bit after that... :shock:

but he was young and foolish then... :wink:

so what's your excuse, Soap? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :wink:
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Old and forgetful. I've forgotten the power that cow's swinging head can pack. :-)

Back to the subject of being old and forget, I got in a heap a' trouble today. On Monday morning Peach worked diligently getting a few bills paid and ready for me to mail when I took cattle to a local livestock auction. Upon getting in the pickup, I put the letters in a little clip on the sunvisor so they wouldn't fall down behind the pickup seat. Fast forward, I drop two cows off at the locker, and take the remaining two cows, a crippled bull, and a not-very-good heifer to the sale barn. Stop at a store to visit a good friend, drive back to our little town, get the mail, fuel up, head for home. Oh yes, Goose was saddled and on the front third of the stock trailer so I unsaddle him, then put the pickup and trailer in the calving barn until it would be needed again. Today, I get it out for our project. Peach drives it to the corral three miles away while I refill cake onto feed pickup and take it along to use later. Peach notices letters still in sunvisor. Soapweed in big trouble. Peach convinces cow to butt heads with stupid husband to try to pound in some sense. Jury still out if it actually worked. :roll: :-)
 
I can relate to that look on your daughters face. I don't know what it is about human blood that gets under my skin. I guess I just have a weak tolerance for it but when I saw the picture of the look in your daughters eye I got that same feeling I do when I taste my own blood.... lite headed.

Your whole picture story here reminded me of a similair incident I had with our vet a few years back. I had sold some older cows out of state and we had to read bangs tags for the health and it was just me and the vet. He got a little lax towards the end... anyhow he was bent over the head of this cow that had an ugly knobb of a horn sticking straight up out of the right side of her head and she set that vet up big time. While she was in the chute she had her head down as far as she could and the vet with his clipboard in one had resting on his knees and his pen in the other he kept leaning closer and closer with all his weight on the tip of his toes to read the tag - and wham she stabbed him right in the eye with that wicked looking horn and I thought he was dead. Out cold for a minute and woke up screaming and went straight to the cow and kicked her in the head. He appologized for losing his temper but I didn't blame him... he finished the job and got stiches later in the day, black eye and the works. We joke about everytime he comes out.

Anyhow, your nose doesn't look to crooked. Have fun breathing through it in the upcoming weather.
 
I had that happen a few years ago trying to mouth a cow. She hit me hard enough that I was laying about 10 feet back from the chute. My wife said my vocabulary included some words she didn't think I even knew and haven't used since! :???:
 
Cedarcreek said:
I had that happen a few years ago trying to mouth a cow. She hit me hard enough that I was laying about 10 feet back from the chute. My wife said my vocabulary included some words she didn't think I even knew and haven't used since! :???:
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It is ironic that you mention this. When my finger got cut off, it took me by complete surprise but it didn't hurt. I looked down, thought, "I don't have a finger," but didn't say a single bad word. When the heifer hit my nose and sent me tumbling, I regret to say that my instant painful reaction was to say something very bad.

I read some old cowboy's book several years back (can't remember whose book it was :roll: ), and it contained his observations on this subject. His thoughts were that if you were taken by surprise and scared silly for a moment, your first reaction is to cuss. If you have a few instants to realize a grave ( :roll: ) situation is iminent, you will pray with great fervor. I've been in both situations and agree that this is how it happens with me.

One reason I don't like "cowdogs" (and I use the term loosely, as do most cowdog owners) is because they often put me in those situations where it becomes all too easy to cuss. :roll: :wink:

P.S. My nose doesn't look or feel nearly as bad this morning as I thought it would. Thank you, Lord. :-) And Big Muddy, the heifer didn't get hurt at all in the mishap. :wink:
 
And Big Muddy, the heifer didn't get hurt at all in the mishap.
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.........with all those clothes on, couldn't get to the Copenhagen fast enuff :wink: :lol: :lol:
 
Soap dont you know that a cows top part of the head is the hardest?????
Geee if you really want to get her atention ya pop her on the NOSE oopppsssss I guess she figured it worked on cowboys to................ :o :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

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