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black monday!!!!!!!!!!! Supposed to be posted by McGinnis

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for those of you who dont know me I am the eternal optimist never a worry every things is great ?? So I tell Nicky I'm gonna buy 103 black angus cows to bring into this wonderful problem free bunch of Hereford cows nothing to it !!!!! It will be lots of fun!!!!!

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SO here we are first week into it with ol #707

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HEY Nicky why dont you go suckle that little angus calf no worries she's real gentle? maybe bond with her you gonna like these girls!!!!!

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here we are five hours later on presidents day and a visit to our local emergency clinic!!!!!! hoping for a touch of amneisa since we only got 100 left? no such luck. Every thing seems to be crystal [black] clear!!!!
Only one thing to do.


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Create a little man made amnesia!! Optimism will be running high once again on this Black monday, YEE HAW!!!!
 
Oh my gosh!!! You two take care..... don't trust nothing..... I really wish I would of sold you our bred herefords.... I'm thinking we all need to have a drink tonite at 6.00 p.m. for nicky....... Cheers nicky!!! I'm going tooo..
 
You just have to learn to walk softly around those black cows. :wink:



They will get used to you and settle into your routine. Some are more aggressive at calving but that is why some of us like them. :D


Take care and heal up fast. :D
 
Not to take away from Nicky story, three years ago I had shoulder surgery, basely lot of screw to hold it all together. Well the cow herd was a little short after a couple years of drought and went and bought a big pot load of short term black cows. Clipped and branded them with one arm broke my back ward B bar electric brand with 5 left. Had just bought a quarter circle eleven, so used Mom's U bar quarter circle and rolled on the quarter circle and did a running iron to do the II. We Tenny stayed home that spring and was helping me calve. One of those old black cows had a dead calf. The next morning one of my Herefords had a set of twin's .We got the black cow into the bard in a pen. Tenny got a rope on her and was tying her off as I pushed the calf in. well she was dallied down good and spun around the rope singing around the planks. She hit the calf knocking it down… I help push it on out under the gate. The old gal was a hitting me and instead of lifting me up was pulling me down into the pen. My arm in a sling and thinking that the Doctor said it is a whole lot worse if I had to come back in, I tied to keep it covered. About the 5th time she hit me the Powder River gate popped open and out she went also pushing thru the double doors at the end of the barn…..She wore the rope for over a week. You could tell were she was at night when checking the cows as the rope made a sizzling sound thru the snow and pack snow yard.
 
Welcome to barn calving Angus you two. That is quite an innitiation mark Nicky.

My concern is why do you even have that pipe there? Are you feeding the calf through that gate?
If we have to feed a calf, the cow is caught in the headgate and 1 leg is tied back to the rear of the chute.

I refuse to have loose pipes and posts anywhere near the chute as you never know where they can fly.

Heal up soon.
 

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