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leanin' H

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I love it!!!!! :D Them bramer bulls are a unique and awesome critter. I'll bet raising them was a lot of fun. I'll bet noddin' your head for the gate would be even more fun! :D Never apologize for pictures on here R A! We love them!

And don't fret about this being a beef ranchers board. Justin raises Goats and we still put up with him! :roll: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

Faster horses

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Those Brahma bulls are just COOL. I mean REALLY COOL.
So majestic looking. Thanks for sharing!!

Soapweed, I really enjoyed those branding stories. Thanks.
 

Silver

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Those are pretty neat animals. What the heck is that one in the third pic down? That's quite a set of horns, imagine if they hadn't been blunted!
 

Faster horses

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I noticed those horns, too, Silver. If I could spell it, I think there is
some Watusi blood in that bull somewhere.

Hey, I might have spelled Watusi correctly. WOO HOOOO. :shock: :wink: :p
 

Silver

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Faster horses said:
I noticed those horns, too, Silver. If I could spell it, I think there is
some Watusi blood in that bull somewhere.

Hey, I might have spelled Watusi correctly. WOO HOOOO. :shock: :wink: :p

Watusi was my first thought, but then I second guessed myself.... :shock: :lol:
 

hillsdown

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RA there are some really really nice looking bulls in those pics; breed makes no difference for really nice looking cattle. Thanks for posting them.
 

Big Muddy rancher

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Those are one mighty fine set of bulls. :D

I like that Watusi, I had one i used on Hfrs until he was three then we ate him :? He wasn't as big as your bull but well on his way. :D
 

OldDog/NewTricks

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I really like your Eared Bulls.
In the late 50's I worked part time for USAF and Part Time for Bruce Church Ranch in Yuma - They had a Reg heard of Brahama and a Reg Heard of Angus and they were breeding Brangus a 3/8's 5/8's cross.

I was one of the FEW allowed in with the Brahama - others tried to cowboy them.

Note:
I had a "quite well mannered dog" that would travel right underneath my horse - just keeping out of the way of flying feet. Brahamas dam-near put me, the horse and the dog out of the field at first but in time they excepted all three of us.[/b]
 

R A

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Thanks everybody! ....and thanks for all the stories and tidbits and everything! This isn't traditional ranching country. I don't get to see or hear anything close to what you guys talk about and do. Thanks again!

Handling brahmas has really helped me be a better cattle handler for sure....well I don't know about better...but anyway... I make friends with them and that sure helps me a ton and handle them at the speed of a snail. I get them to follow me rather than I drive them. If they get out or need to be moved, I get on a horse with a 1/4 filled bucket of grain and go find them and shake it and they follow me any where I want now. That has worked on everything but new ones that just arrived or bulls that got pushed through a fence fighting and are scared to go back to the ranch. I always keep a few cattle around to ranch rope about everyday for practice, but I do everything possible not to have to rope something other than that.... but if something does need roped.... I'm ready.

I was going to keep that Watusi for breeding my beef heifers. To my knowledge he was full blood. He was one of the biggest Watusi's I have been around, but I think he would of still had a small calf. He got really hard to keep in and bawled 24 hours a day.
 

WyomingRancher

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R A said:
Thanks everybody! ....and thanks for all the stories and tidbits and everything! This isn't traditional ranching country. I don't get to see or hear anything close to what you guys talk about and do. Thanks again!

Handling brahmas has really helped me be a better cattle handler for sure....well I don't know about better...but anyway... I make friends with them and that sure helps me a ton and handle them at the speed of a snail. I get them to follow me rather than I drive them. If they get out or need to be moved, I get on a horse with a 1/4 filled bucket of grain and go find them and shake it and they follow me any where I want now. That has worked on everything but new ones that just arrived or bulls that got pushed through a fence fighting and are scared to go back to the ranch. I always keep a few cattle around to ranch rope about everyday for practice, but I do everything possible not to have to rope something other than that.... but if something does need roped.... I'm ready.

I was going to keep that Watusi for breeding my beef heifers. To my knowledge he was full blood. He was one of the biggest Watusi's I have been around, but I think he would of still had a small calf. He got really hard to keep in and bawled 24 hours a day.

I agree, handling Brahmas is a different game altogether :D . I worked for a rodeo stock contractor in college, and you really had to be thinking ahead to handle those cattle, they were very smart! They figured things out and were calculating... a bit different than these beef cows. Unfortunately these cows weren't tame, and wouldn't follow you with grain, so it was more planning a strategy, and hoping for the best... it was fun and a little wild at times gathering them in the mountains.

Thanks for the pics :D .
 

Dylan Biggs

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That is quite a collection of bulls.

Great color and a couple of beefy bulls in there also.

I always like the brindles.

As regards making friends always a good strategy, a little trust goes a long ways.

Thanks for posting the photos.
 

Faster horses

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The people I know that have dealt with Brahma cattle have told us
the cows keep the calves at their side much like a mare and a colt,
and you best not try to get between the two.

We did have a friend that managed a ranch in SW Mt. The
owners bought some part brahma cows out of Miles City and
took them to the ranch in SW Montana. The manager worked cattle
fairly fast, and he wound up with his corrals flattened (they weren't
real stout anyway) because he tried to force the cows. They
showed him a thing or two about working cattle. :D Anyway,
he sent them to another part of the ranch as he couldn't deal
with them. Which I thought was his fault, not the brahma cows,
because the next guy got along fine with them--mainly because HE did
the getting along. :wink:
 

R A

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Thank you!

I'll always have some brahmas around. They are awesome mothers.....tons of milk...mine do stay with their calf. I never hear brahma mommas and babies bawling trying to find each other. They are right there close. Mine have been smart and easily trained. I'm breaking a full blood brahma to ride right now. :) Still small, so it will be awile before I can ride him. I used to break longhorns to ride, but this is my first brahma. He is out of my born to buck program though. He is very tame, but I can't get him to quit bucking with the saddle yet. :) :)
 

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