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a few pics

R A

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First, I'd like to thank everyone that posts pictures on here. It really helps keep me fired up building my ranch up when things get tough.

a few of the girls relaxing
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2 yr old heifer. getting bred to a horned hereford this year.
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has been a great mother. being bred to a horned hereford this year also.
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one of my herdsires. I don't have a good pic of my new horned hereford yet
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pic I took while riding a few mornings ago
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first calf heifer
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new horse
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plain ol black cow. just got her. need to get her branded
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pic I took one morning
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I have six healers. this would have to be my favorite, if I had to choose
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per

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Thank you for the pics as well. Good looking Angus you have. I can't make a comment on the floppy eared animals. Not too many of them up here. :wink:
 

burnt

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Boy you sure are green there. Sure nice to look at. And yup, those eared cattle would get a lot more strange looks here in Ontario than your blacks!
 

HAY MAKER

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I like the bay,cow dog looks good too,probably 2 of my biggest weakness,healers and horses.
welcome to ranchers and thanx for the picture story.
good luck
 

Big Muddy rancher

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HAY MAKER said:
I like the bay,cow dog looks good too,probably 2 of my biggest weakness,healers and horses.
welcome to ranchers and thanx for the picture story.
good luck

Gee Haymaker you must be in 4H,


Healers, Horses, Hooch and Hot Mama's :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

JF Ranch

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The bay looks good. You've been using him. Pedigree? Age? A bay I raised wound up in Missouri back in 2004. This horse isn't him, but then it's been long enough ago, I couldn't be absolutely sure.
 

Silver

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Good looking cows and country. Like Per, I'm not qualified to comment on the bull :D
That horse looks awful relaxed, looks likes he's been working. If I had as much rope on my saddle as you do on yours I'd have a helluva wreck. To be on the safe side I'd probably cut those ropes in thirds, and put five of them in the barn for spares :oops:
 

Dylan Biggs

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Great photos thanks!

I like the exotic eared cattle.

Good looking dog and bay horse.

The only thing that concerns from a safety standpoint is that rear rope hung where it is. A freind of mine saw a kid killed coming off a panicky horse and got his spur caught in the rear rope got hung up and well...., a sad story.

Can never be to safe.


:)

Thank again for the great photos.
 

Justin

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your country looks nice and green. black cattle look really good. the eared cattle look, well....eary. :wink: i don't know enough about them to call them good or bad, but they do look pretty cool. :D thanks for the pictures and welcome to Ranchers.

edited: the bay looks good too. that's about the most rope i've seen tied on to one saddle. you must have a strong arm to throw all of that. :wink:
 

leanin' H

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You knotheads lay of RA and his ropes. The guy is new here and you're already treating him like me! :roll: :lol: :lol: :lol: Welcome to ranchers. :lol: Please ignore the guys with short ropes! :wink: I think a guy would have to throw a pretty big loop to get a rope on them Bramers! :wink: Plus with a 60 footer, if one decided to come up the rope, I'd have more time to get un-tangled and flee the scene! :D
 

OldDog/NewTricks

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Hey :!:
some of the old timers I learned from had my respect in the Branding Corrals with their long Ropes and Figure 8 Catches - Top Hands - I never got that good - they have my respect...
 

R A

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Thanks everybody! I appreciate it!

The ropes are 60 footers. I wouldn't leave the house with any thing less in lenth. Been using them everyday for a long time now. They seem short to me now. I can't count the times that extra few feet has come in handy.


Yeah, the brahma heifers and cows I have now are from my bucking bull breeding program I used to have. There aren't hardly any brahmas around here. There new job is to make me some future bald faced brindle momma cows. I only kept the really tame ones.

The brahma bull pictured was in my bucking bull string I used to have. I've had him about 6 years now. The most tame, level headed bull I have ever had. He'll die here. So I am going to give him some beef cows every year just for the heck of it. I wouldn't of ever bought a bull like him for raising beef, but his calves really aren't too bad out of beef cows. My next brahman bull will be a red beefier one.

Thanks again!
 

R A

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Oh yeah... that is a sad story about that kid getting hung up for sure! Riding horses can sure be dangerous! I take my horses for granted sometimes. If I have had them more than a week or two, they don't even lift a ear out of place hardly. They are animals and you never know what can happen though.

and... go healers :)
 

RSL

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Nice cattle, and good pics. We often carry two ropes during calving. Are there more ropes on the other side of that horse? you could probably catch most things in the state and already have them tied hard and fast in the yard. :lol:
What type of riggin' is on that horse?
 

R A

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Thank-you! Yeah, I had 3 ropes on my horse that day. If I'm carry'in two, I always carry my extra on the other side to stay out of the way when roping and dragging and handling cattle. 99% of the time I'm all by myself when roping. Whether I'm here or roping for someone else. I have to carry extra ropes. If for some reason I have to pitch the rope that is on the critter, which I try to not get it that position, I can catch them again real easy. If I have something roped around the neck and need to drop them, I usually just do the circle thing around them while they are just standing still and drop them, but if they aren't mean and I work them enough to quiet down and I have them roped around the neck, I can use a second rope to make my own heel shot.

That saddle doesn't fit that horse. I don't know how it is rigged???? 7/8???? I don't know? I don't even know the brand of it.
 

Silver

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R A said:
If I have something roped around the neck and need to drop them, I usually just do the circle thing around them while they are just standing still and drop them, but if they aren't mean and I work them enough to quiet down and I have them roped around the neck, I can use a second rope to make my own heel shot.

You'll have to excuse my ignorance, I'm a roping dummy :oops: Once you have a cow by the head AND the heels.... what's next? I'd like to get my head around this procedure.
Thanks!
 

R A

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:) :) Ok, I'll be honest. When I posted those pictures, I never in a million years would of guessed any body would notice or bring up my ropes. :) :) I'm going to go have a good cry and go back into hiding...nah, I'm just jokin :) :)

Silver-If I'm messin around doing that, the critter is pretty docile or really small. When I get a heel caught with the second rope, the dallies are popped on the head loop and that roped is dropped and I just have the heel loop dallied. I usually use the horse to work the critter down. Then get off and tie a front leg and back leg together. I always carry short ropes with me.... 3 or 4 foot pieces of climbing ropes. Or you can tail them down while your horse holds the rope tight with the leg in the air or just keep pulling on the rope while on the ground in a way it takes them off balance and down. When I get off, I just tie the rope around the horn and cantle in a way that it will hold. I usually ride with split reins, so I then tie a rein to the rope and walk down the rope and start tie'n legs up. If I am riding with a mccarty set up, I usually just take the lead rope part with me to keep the horse lined up and keep the rope tight if I have to. I usually only get one heel using metal hondas. Keeping two heels is hard for me to do with metal hondas, but I can keep one real easy. I like using the metal hondas pasture/ranch roping because I can choke a wild critter down a little if needed then give him slack when needed easier than with other hondas. I don't use metal hondas during branding. I would never bring one of my calves to the fire with one leg only. Just a few thoughts. :) I am probably not a good one to ask how to do all this the right way anyway. I have never pasture roped with any body in my life that had roped at all very much. Most never had ever roped anything at all, on horses that didn't know what a rope was. If I had got a chance to rope around Bill Dorrance or someone like that, that would of been great!
 
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