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Cowdogs around the country.

I got some good video of our dogs workin some cattle with a few longhorns in the bunch. Some sure buggery watchin then long horn cows tryin to hook them dogs off but the long horns finely bunched so the dogs won. I wish I could send the video. Good dog broke cattle are as easy to gather as a grannys old milkers. We don't work dogs in the pens. They either get under the cowtrailer or in it. I don't know if them hairy dogs could stand this humid heat. Were stedly takin our dogs to water while were workin them. If one gets staggerin hot, he'll do it quicker the next time. We sure got to watch for gators in some places. They love eatin dogs.
 
cowhunter said:
I got some good video of our dogs workin some cattle with a few longhorns in the bunch. Some sure buggery watchin then long horn cows tryin to hook them dogs off but the long horns finely bunched so the dogs won. I wish I could send the video. Good dog broke cattle are as easy to gather as a grannys old milkers. We don't work dogs in the pens. They either get under the cowtrailer or in it. I don't know if them hairy dogs could stand this humid heat. Were stedly takin our dogs to water while were workin them. If one gets staggerin hot, he'll do it quicker the next time. We sure got to watch for gators in some places. They love eatin dogs.
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cowhunter if you wanna post video of you dogs,open an account at youtube download it there then post the link here.
good luck
 
We had a great dog. She never barked at a cow in her whole life.
She barked at people, but never, ever at a cow. She was double tough
and she taught the cows to really respect a dog. Nothing was too
tough for her to handle. She never bothered a thing unless called on
to do so. We've always had dogs and don't know how people get along
without them. None were as good as this dog tho. She came from the Ruby Valley and are known in W. Montana as Birrers Dogs, as Birrers
are the ones who raise them. They are golden in color, white ring around
their neck, flop eared. When their hackles raise they look like a descent
of a Rodesian Ridgback. Birrers have raised them for over 40 years now,
but they can't tell you what they are. :shock: I have one picture of
her that I sent Jersey Lilly to enter in the photo contest, but I don't
know how to post it here. I'll have someone do it for me and welcome
any ideas as to what she might be~

Thanks.
 
I can't amagine lettin a dog ride in my truck and scratchin up my king ranch leather.I have hauled one in the back seat rapped in a new carhart jacket that was cut down by a bad hog before. And they sure don't come in the house. I can't imagine 15 head of dogs stinkin up a house. I got a kennel off the ground for pups and jyps raisin pups. But my grown dogs are on 12 ft chains fastened to a short post with a eye lag bolt screwed into the top at ground level. I've got 6 in half post with a big 70 gallon plastic barrel screw to the side of the top of the post for there beds. There about 2 ft off the ground. They have a small openin and hold in the heat and are cool in the summer We keep fresh horse hay in them. A dog naturaly loves the ground. This gives a dog a 24 ft radious. Way more room than a average kennal. They stay in shape on a chain to but we hoghunt our dogs as well as work cattle. And they get plenty of action. I haul one regular to. We keep our dogs a little lean but plenty healthy. A fat dog will get hot and die here tryin to work. We give ivimect once a month for heart worms and zemetrin gold horse wormer every other 3 mos with panacure in rotation. We use a flea control that has the same ingrenent as safeguard but a lot cheeper. We raise about 3 to 5 litters a year but don't sell pups. We give away the extras and keep the rest. We sell a few yearlin started dogs. But not many. What don't work we cull. We sure love our dogs but we won't feed a sorry one. There tools of the trade, just like our horses.
 
Posting for Faster horses.....

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FH, those are sometimes called Ruby Reds, correct? They were bred in the Big Hole area?

My friend I am getting my fuzzy dog has some of those dogs also.
 
When I try and send a video off my old i530 nextel phone to my black berry, it says size exceded. I've even tryed videoin the video, but u can't make them out very good. I"ll get some new pics soon. Its just kind of hard filmin off a movein horse and dogs and cattle movein. I got a nother litter due any day. Glad its warmed up a bit.
 
We got 7 pups now and more comein. 4 black n tans, 2 buckskins and a blue. All so far, are short tailed. Its the same breedin as them young dogs bayin the hog on ranch talk. By a blue dog called nubbins andlucy, his aunt/cusin/ cusin. If there anything like the first bunch, they will get it done.
 
Good lookin' dogs. Craig Britton at Montana Livestock Auction had a dog
that looked like these. He was Craig's right arm.

Talking about cows fighting dogs, when we had the yellow dog we didn't
have a cow that challenged her after we had her awhile. She had 'presence' and if a cow came at her she never gave ground. She'd
grab their nose, ear, anything she could get ahold of. And she meant
business. Now this male dog we have, he's a chicken; and he'll run,
so they challenge him a lot. Mr. FH says a dog like that teaches cows
to fight. He still helps, but if the going gets tough, he leaves. He's
better than no dog, cuz he'll sure get cattle out of places, most of the
time. :shock: He's a long was from a good dog, though, but he's an
awful good friend. So he has a home til he dies.
 
Thank you FH for your compliments on Zeke and Trixie. They are just about 3 now. They were sired by Juan Reyes's dog Weasel, who won the Denver's National Stock Dog competition in '97. Unfortunately right after winning Weasel got into some kind of poison at the feed lot and died. Zeke, the male, is a better pasture dog cause he is a bit of a coward at heart. Trixie on the other hand is almost fearless. She'll bite nose, ears, front feet and hind feet. She's actually starting to learn to think on her own and use her power judiciously. One nice thing about these dogs is their willingness to go a fare distance to find stock that they can't see. This spring they traveled about a 1 3/4 of a mile before they found a group of about 200 yearlings and brought them to me. They still bring the cattle a bit fast but as they mature I think they'll slow down a bit. I also have a photo I am going to post after chores of a young McCallum border collie that we call King. And I'd like to post a picture of my old dog Cap. He died 2 years ago now. Best dog I've ever had. I'll tell you about some of his feats when I post his picture. :-)
 
Well, she mashed 3 last night. 4 males left. The blue one and 3 black n tans. I sure was wontin some jyps but they will do. I got on my filly today. First time sence 3 weeks before christmas was the last time I rode. My little filly is almost bomb proof thanks to my son and some friends ridein here a lot. Goes from a walk to a slow lope and stops like a reanin horse. Spins good to. She just need to see more cows but she's fixin to get a break. She's dew to foal in about 2 mos. Whin I get back from maryland, I'll have somethin to play with.
 

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