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Another Good Reason for Baldy Cattle

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Anonymous

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I went out a few minutes ago to check the heifer lot before bed-- my hand spotlight bulb burned out, so I grabbed a flashlight...Tryed to ride thru on the 4 wheeler and check them- but without the spotlight I couldn't see good enough, so got off and walked thru the lot...I was heading over to check out a baldy heifer laying off by herself when my feet went out from under me, and I was lying face first over a solid black heifer with my head between her legs :oops: I'd tripped right over her... Luckily she didn't get very excited and kick my head in and I was able to roll over her before she even got up.....

This is about the quietest bunch of heifers I've had-- didn't get her number (too busy trying to find my flashlight and then my hat and glasses), but she definitely must not be one with any EXT in her background....
 

Soapweed

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Glad that neither your anatomy or your dignity was hurt in the ordeal, Oldtimer. Be careful; had the heifer been an EXT, it might have been your EXIT. :shock: :? :wink:
 

HAY MAKER

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Careful OT,been there ,done that,lookin for black cattle in the dark or heavy brush,makes you wish you had a little white on em for sure...........good luck
 

Big Muddy rancher

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kolanuraven said:
I must have the calm bunch of EXT's cause mine would come in the house if I'd let them. :lol: :lol: :lol:


KR the environment that cattle live in has quite a influence on how they react. We handle our cattle quietly but they are not handled much. Many of the exotic breeds that were draft animals in Europe just go crazy when left to their own for months at a time. We have had friends come to ride with us and they have marveled at how our Angus cows are so queit and we can ride right into them to pick up bulls and some other friends cows from smaller herds run away at the sight of them on horses back. That said we do have individuals that you don't want to handle by themselves.
 

kolanuraven

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BMR..I am aware of the enviromental aspect of it. Here in GA since I've downsized I see them 3-4 times a day and hand feed them at times.

When we had the NE place with numbers reaching 3,000 at times WAY different story!! :shock: :shock:

BUT...even those Nebraska EXT's weren't a problem, no more than any other of those bovine beauties!
 
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I've got a few old cows with EXT in their background that are plumb calm and quiet-- "had" one that was a nutcase--no matter how calm you worked her, she wasn't- and then she started to come hunting you during calving season- no matter if you were close to her calf or not...Shes gone...
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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When our son was little....(4 years old or so) he'd just learned to ride a bicycle. He loved ridin it down to Granny's. Which is just down the road. We were goin over one afternoon, and let him ride his bike. When it come time to come back to the house, he wanted to ride it back in the dark. So we let him ride in front of the truck so he could see with the headlights. Well when we crossed the cattleguard, he hollered, "Race ya to the house" we have two lil paths thru the woods to the house, he took one, we took the longer one. We got to the point where the paths join back to one, and waited, and waited and waited.......finally after what seemed like forever, he come ridin outta the woods...all wabbly, bent handle bars..etc. When we asked what took so long, he replied, "Well there I was.....ridin thru the trees....next thing I know I was up and over the handle bars......layin on somethin warm and fuzzy"
The cattle had bedded down for the night in the middle of the drive.
We've laughed about that many times over the years.
 

jodywy

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with a white face you can at least telf half the cross. 4 sets of twin so far this spring one yesterday out of a black angus hiefer, stolde one and put on another hiefer. had 4 tail first breech calves out of 2nd calvers in a row..... :shock:
 

Work Hard and Study Hard

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This morning I went out to tag calves by myself as always. I had maybe 3 or 4 "overzealous mothers" the first 200 calves but lately they've all been crazy. I usually pull up close enough to see the mothers tag, write it out, and then draw 2 cc of Alpha 7 into the syringe. Ideally I pull up "near the calf" catch it and drag it back in between the pickup door and the pickup to tag. I can usually tell if there is going to be a problem before I get out of the pickup and was a little worried about this particular cow. The calf was probably about 6 or 7 hours old born during the night. I got the calf caught about 30 feet from the pickup and started draggin the calf at a hurried pace, from out of nowhere another cow comes up and starts after me. #351 is probably the most overprotective mother on the place so I knew I was in trouble. I let go of the calf, dropped the syringe and tagger and then made a split second decision to "jump" through the window of the pickup Dukes of Hazzard stlye but head first. Well I didn't time the jump quite right and ended up cracking the top of my head on the top of the door well and fell in a heap to the ground. Like a bull rider I disregarded my injury for the time being and mangaged to drag my self into the back of the pickup where I layed for about 3 or 4 minutes. After that I ran the cow off about 400 yards raced back to the calf and completed the shot and tagging operation. I've got a hell of a goose egg on my head and am still a little bit foggy. I really gotta get one of those 4 wheeler mounted tagging cages.
 

jodywy

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I pull them out a few yards on the crust as I can walk on it but the cows break thru , if the cows get too close I move farther out from the feed ground.
 

peg4x4

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Work Hard and Study Hard said:
This morning I went out to tag calves by myself as always. I had maybe 3 or 4 "overzealous mothers" the first 200 calves but lately they've all been crazy. I usually pull up close enough to see the mothers tag, write it out, and then draw 2 cc of Alpha 7 into the syringe. Ideally I pull up "near the calf" catch it and drag it back in between the pickup door and the pickup to tag. I can usually tell if there is going to be a problem before I get out of the pickup and was a little worried about this particular cow. The calf was probably about 6 or 7 hours old born during the night. I got the calf caught about 30 feet from the pickup and started draggin the calf at a hurried pace, from out of nowhere another cow comes up and starts after me. #351 is probably the most overprotective mother on the place so I knew I was in trouble. I let go of the calf, dropped the syringe and tagger and then made a split second decision to "jump" through the window of the pickup Dukes of Hazzard stlye but head first. Well I didn't time the jump quite right and ended up cracking the top of my head on the top of the door well and fell in a heap to the ground. Like a bull rider I disregarded my injury for the time being and mangaged to drag my self into the back of the pickup where I layed for about 3 or 4 minutes. After that I ran the cow off about 400 yards raced back to the calf and completed the shot and tagging operation. I've got a hell of a goose egg on my head and am still a little bit foggy. I really gotta get one of those 4 wheeler mounted tagging cages.
You need a good dog-the kind that'll lead the cow away from you..
 

Work Hard and Study Hard

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peg4x4 said:
Work Hard and Study Hard said:
This morning I went out to tag calves by myself as always. I had maybe 3 or 4 "overzealous mothers" the first 200 calves but lately they've all been crazy. I usually pull up close enough to see the mothers tag, write it out, and then draw 2 cc of Alpha 7 into the syringe. Ideally I pull up "near the calf" catch it and drag it back in between the pickup door and the pickup to tag. I can usually tell if there is going to be a problem before I get out of the pickup and was a little worried about this particular cow. The calf was probably about 6 or 7 hours old born during the night. I got the calf caught about 30 feet from the pickup and started draggin the calf at a hurried pace, from out of nowhere another cow comes up and starts after me. #351 is probably the most overprotective mother on the place so I knew I was in trouble. I let go of the calf, dropped the syringe and tagger and then made a split second decision to "jump" through the window of the pickup Dukes of Hazzard stlye but head first. Well I didn't time the jump quite right and ended up cracking the top of my head on the top of the door well and fell in a heap to the ground. Like a bull rider I disregarded my injury for the time being and mangaged to drag my self into the back of the pickup where I layed for about 3 or 4 minutes. After that I ran the cow off about 400 yards raced back to the calf and completed the shot and tagging operation. I've got a hell of a goose egg on my head and am still a little bit foggy. I really gotta get one of those 4 wheeler mounted tagging cages.
You need a good dog-the kind that'll lead the cow away from you..

If you were closer I'd consider it. I love a good cow dog but won't hesitate a second to shoot a bad one. I don't know how to train them so I've pretty much had the latter. My rat terrier never even got out of the pickup :wink: .
 

efb

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My inseminator ( who is a dairyman) always wants to come about half an hour before daylight. I finally asked him if he'd ever tried sorting black cows in the dark :wink: .

AS far as EXT's I love them. I've had and still have a few and never had any problelms with them. Ext has sired the best calves I've had. Boyds New Day calves look to be about as good.
 
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