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Adventures with Bud and Stanley

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Northern Rancher

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Neighbor phoned I had some yearlings out-the rain washed out my fence across the creek-so I slogged out there with my good lady wife. three quarters of a mile of flooded mucky field to get to them. I thought we were looking the good one of the old cows I stuck with them was in the ten-one really flighty Brangus steer but I thought that he'd follow her. We 'Bud Williams'ed them over to the gate and that rotten old ..... would not go through. High head broke on us so another 3/4 mile plod and we got them back standing 30 feet from a 30 foot wide gate into as good a grass as I've ever had. Our mexican standoff lasted about an hour but I gradually got them about ten feet closer-basically had ten head with no flightzone and one powderkeg. this is when Stanley helped out-my old so called lead cow finally looked at the gate and I whipped my Stanley hammer at her butt-we gained another ten feet. Retrieved my hammer and set things up for about twenty minutes till wildthing was looking into the bunch and Dopey was looking at the gate-one more strategic throw and they moved close enough that the other calves just grazed through. Put about three miles on my old carcass before it was all said and done so a bit tired. It's a four mile ride over there-we can't cross the muskkeg on horseback but I think I might capture a pony if it happens again.
 
Good story, Northern Rancher, and the title is especially appropriate. :-) Thanks for the mental image of the happenings. Your account is an example of why an audience can "see more" by listening to the radio than by watching television, or why a book is often much better than the movie made from the same narrative.
 
I sometimes wonder how they see things. A 30' gate must look like a 30" booby trap to them. Until they decide it's time to go through and then they act like they intended to all along but you sure couldn't push them through. go figure. :roll:
 
That highheaded brahma cross steer was the fly in the ointment-he couldn't stand any pressure so if you released off him the whole shooting match stalled out. I waited till his attention was elsewhere and let Stanley build some flightzone into that cow. I miss my old lead steer already.
 
So basically what your saying is you "FARMERED" them back in. Next you'll be buying a tractor and milking cows.
 
Northern Rancher said:
Yup I backslid really not in 'colt riding' shape right now!!
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Good job NR.

Colt or not, you still would have had to deal with two dramatically different flights zones and it sounds to me that the patience and strategic pressuring strategy would still have been required, unless you were going to treat the high headed brahma cross for a nylon deficiency right off the bat. The side affects of that treatment though are always hard to predict and may result in a number of unintended consequences.
 

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