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Hello all from Venezuela!

Northern Rancher said:
Any predators there-don't you have jaguars there?
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There are jaguars in Venezeula, but they're farther south near the Orinoco River from what I understand.

No major predators in my area though we've got such critters as vampire bats which can transmit rabies if the animals aren't vaccinated routinely.
 
Your predator question got me to wondering NR what other nearby critters might actually be able to kill and eat a calf on my place.

The only other thing that comes to mind, and I've not ever heard of anyone losing a calf to one, are the pythons or boa constrictors that live on my place. The largest I've seen (killed by accident with a bushhog) was about 8 feet long. They get much larger and I'm sure the largest could eat an average newborn calf though the mother cow would probably give it hell.
 
I spent a week there in the fall of 1996 courtesy of the USMC and thought it was a wonderful place - - - I doubt I will ever make the change you did as my kids and grand daughter would miss me.

great to hear about your adventure though - - - -I can live a little thru you.
 
What have you got for eagles there. We used to run our sheepin with our cows and they went through some pretty coyote and bear infested country without too much losses-they'll stay in a bit less formidable fencing then too.
 
Northern Rancher said:
What have you got for eagles there. We used to run our sheepin with our cows and they went through some pretty coyote and bear infested country without too much losses-they'll stay in a bit less formidable fencing then too.
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The largest birds of prey we have in my area are some decent-sized hawks, but nothing that I could imagine would ever attack a calf, or even a lamb for that matter.

Oh, we've also got our share of rattlesnakes but fortunately they're not very aggressive. As it relates to snakes, my problem here is that I don't yet know what's poisonous and what's not. Back in the states, at a glance I could tell whether a snake was trouble or not. Here, to the locals, just about everything is poisonous, though I suspect they're more often wrong than right.
 
Whitewing said:
Your predator question got me to wondering NR what other nearby critters might actually be able to kill and eat a calf on my place.

The only other thing that comes to mind, and I've not ever heard of anyone losing a calf to one, are the pythons or boa constrictors that live on my place. The largest I've seen (killed by accident with a bushhog) was about 8 feet long. They get much larger and I'm sure the largest could eat an average newborn calf though the mother cow would probably give it hell.
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Is there such a thing as killing a snake by "accident"? lol Not for me it isn't..lol
 
Jassy said:
Whitewing said:
Your predator question got me to wondering NR what other nearby critters might actually be able to kill and eat a calf on my place.

The only other thing that comes to mind, and I've not ever heard of anyone losing a calf to one, are the pythons or boa constrictors that live on my place. The largest I've seen (killed by accident with a bushhog) was about 8 feet long. They get much larger and I'm sure the largest could eat an average newborn calf though the mother cow would probably give it hell.
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Is there such a thing as killing a snake by "accident"? lol Not for me it isn't..lol
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:D Understood. I don't generally kill snakes unless I know them to be poisonous and they're on my place. Just the other day I removed by hand a young python (he was about 3 feet long) from a field I was plowing. As I released him I commented, "now don't pay me back some day by eating my small pincher dog Pequi". :)
 
Very interesting! Thanks for the pictures.....keep posting lots of them! Sure do hope you keep sharing details of life in Venezuela....loads of stuff I'd like to know....too tired to ask questions tonight. :-)
 
Turkey Track Bar said:
Welcome to ranchers.net, from North Central South Dakota. I enjoyed your pictures and hearing about your operation and would enjoy seeing and hearing more.

Cheers----

TTB :wink:
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Thanks TTB. I plan to take a lot more pics this week and post them upon my return, especially my "cochinera".

I've got a group of guys working on a 17 hectar piece that I consider 'marginal' and I'm going to release my hogs into that area once I've got it fenced. Part of it is fenced for cattle, 5 strands, but I'm going to run solar electric around the entire piece. It's something like 4800 meters if I recall the calcs from my engineer correctly.
 
Well I hope you don't get so successful that Comrade Hugo decides to take all you've got. "for the good of the people", obviously!
 
Howdy from Texas. :cboy: I keep telling my wife that if this country keeps getting going in the direction it's going we my move down south. I keep looking at Argentina. It has the climate in some areas like Texas where I can still run the same cattle like we have here. We have mostly cross bred cattle that can take this wild Texas weather. Are there any Angus or Hereford cattle down there? My wife is ready to go now. She said any place that doesn't get hotter than hell like here. I sometimes think she could live on the North or South Pole and be happy. She will be going to Louisiana this weekend so I will get her to take some pictures so you can see your old homeland. :wink:

Take care and show them guys down there how to raise some good beef. :wink:
 

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