Finally

[Big Muddy rancher]

When i was coaxing the cows out of the badlands last winter closer to home and a bit of feed they wandered in a few at a time. My son and a friend check the pasture a couple of times on their snow machines and found a few that were looking good and didn't seem very concerned about coming home.
I had looked for them a couple times and found them hanging around a old yard site. They were there yesterday so today I loaded a horse and my Dad took his runabout up and we were going to trail them up to a Co-op pasture corral and haul them home. Well on the way up I spied some cows out in some farmland along the road . Low and behold it was my cows up out of the coulees and brush and close to a trail to take them to the corral. We followed along with the truck and trailer until we came to some water so I unloaded my horse and trailed them down and penned them. I then high tailed it back to the trailer loaded up and brought my horses home. I then turned around to go back for the cows and here one of them had calved in the hour I was gone.I didn't have my extra gate in the trailer but did have a piece of plywood that I tied up in the goose neck to keep the calf safe and loaded the cow and headed for home. Finally the cows are all home and something went close to according to plan today.
ps we would have been along time looking for them if I hadn't seen them in a hollow half mile off the road.

 

[leanin' H]

You gotta love it when a plan comes together even when it's accidentally! Hope you get some opportune moisture.

 

[WyomingRancher]

Yep, it's always a plus when things fall into place. Glad to hear you found your cows, and have one less to calve .

Last summer on the forest I was short two bulls. On my way to Laramie one afternoon, I decided to cut through the forest, and just happened to catch a glimpse of them coming out of some timber. I called Jim and had him load a horse and head my way. He made it up before they went out of sight into more timber. I got them trailed the two miles to the corral. Definitely was in the right place at the right time .

 

[gcreekrch]

Glad you found them. At least you were able to thieve a complete winter out of a few of them. :wink:

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Glad you found them. At least you were able to thieve a complete winter out of a few of them. :wink:

The shape they came home in I don't know why I bothered bring the rest of them home. :roll:

 

[Silver]

Glad you found them. At least you were able to thieve a complete winter out of a few of them. :wink:

The shape they came home in I don't know why I bothered bring the rest of them home. :roll:

There's probably a lesson in there somewhere, but I have no idea what it would be. Way to go on a good save!

 

[per]

Maybe they would have made it home in time to be sent back out if you never found them. :wink: I thought you were going to say you put the calf in the cab and all the cows in the trailer. :?

 

[Blkbuckaroo]

Sometimes a guy gets lucky :wink:

 

[Justin]

Sometimes a guy gets lucky :wink:

i'd rather be lucky, than good. :wink: glad ya got everybody home & sound, BMR.

 

[Northern Rancher]

A few years ago we had very little snow-the muskeg that splits one pasture froze and stranded 8 cows on the other side. I opened all the gates and just waited for enough snow so they could cross the ice. They ended staying out there till the first part of march with no ill effects. The right winter up here for that experiment on that year BMR probably has alot stronger winter grass than we do. Glad you got them out all in one piece-the best cow for our country is probably a part draft mare but that's just my opinion.