• If you are having problems logging in please use the Contact Us in the lower right hand corner of the forum page for assistance.

Introduction

T

Toad

Member
Joined
Jan 6, 2009
Messages
21
Location
Golan Heights
I've been lurking on this site for a little while now and would like to contribute to some posts. I've worked cattle and horses for a while now in a few different places. Grew up around horses and sh**p in England, got a ranching job in Israel for 5 years or so, spent 7 years in BC Canada cowboying around Kamloops and the Nicola Valley.
Been back in Israel for the last year and plan to stay. I manage a herd of about 1,000 head including the replacements. We have 200 horses (give or take!!) mostly QH . Keep pretty busy with tick-borne diseases, wolf predation, rustlers and generally running cows through firing ranges that border minefields.
Anybody interested in pictures and tales of "how it's done over there?"
I don't want to discuss anything political, but thats like trying to keep flies off a cow pie.
And no its not all sand and camels here!
 
Toad

I am on the Golan as well - we may even have met as I make a point of stopping in a lot of different cattle operations

I wear the dreaded blue bonnet for the time being - but live and work cattle when I am in Canada - very familiar with your BC area. We had an operation near 100 Mile and have family in Williams Lake.

Welcome to the boards.

By the way - did you just buy a couple of horses?

It is raining hard and the snow is piling up on Hermon - just had a call from the IDF about it - I have a couple of guys up there right now and I was worried about them - hopefully this rain will keep on coming - three inches last night in the low ground and nearly 14 inches of snow up in the heights.


I spend some of my off time in Tiberias. But most is on the Area of Separation - and I live in those little out posts.

As for pics I was just putting all of mine on the computer to take home with me.

Bring yours on - always like to see them.

If you are ever around Camp Zouani, Qazrin, Bene Yehuda, El Rom, Baniass or near the "jeep on a stick" on Highway 98 - let me know. Coffee is on me.

You now have my cell # via PM

Cheers

BC
 
Pictures, maps, antedates, observations... they would all be welcome here. 1000 cows in the Golan Height was the last picture I had in my mind. Who would have thunk! :???:
 
Thanks for the welcome,
Heres a pretty funny picture of a neighbours cow in a race with an APC.
Most of our herd is European bloodstock but the local "Balady" cows are tough and always manage to bring a calf home (although a little light).
I'll post more pictures when I get the hang of it...
BC...that makes for a small world pardner! I live in Elrom so we're getting sleet right now, no real snow yet.

http://www.ranchers.net/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/5510/ppuser/3103
 
Well, just practising this photo malarkey.
We have wolves in the Golan, technically Iranian wolves. Last spring the directly or indirectly killed at least six of our foals and arround 14 calves.
I have a licence to shoot them, and the ranch gets a bounty. I'll open a thread on wolves soon, along with how we are trying to manage the situation.



recent[img]
 
I was going to ask if that was a Williams Lake wolf or Israeli wolf. Interesting. Hard to tell the size but they look closer to our coyote then Gcreeks wolves.

Keep on posting,it's nice to hear from ranchers around the world. :-)
 
That is so cool! Welcome to Rancher's net. :D :D :D Keep the pictures coming too.

I'm speaking from a biased opinion here, since I raise the critters, but have you ever tried running donkeys with your livestock? They work like a charm here for predator control. Maybe the ones in your part of the world are more civilized than ours, but boy they can have a very low tolerance for anything canine. :wink:
 
Big Muddy rancher said:
I was going to ask if that was a Williams Lake wolf or Israeli wolf. Interesting. Hard to tell the size but they look closer to our coyote then Gcreeks wolves.

Keep on posting,it's nice to hear from ranchers around the world. :-)
Click to expand...

Interesting Toad, keep posting. Do the wolves over there get larger than that? Doesn't matter, a wolf is a wolf and everyone should have one on their wall.

Kato, donkeys may work for coyotes but if a single wolf was wanting to it would make short work of any donkey. Guard dogs don't last long either.
 
Welcome! Hope to see how ya'll do stuff on your operation. The wonderful part of this site is the interaction between all nationalitys and personalitys who share the common thread of ranching. You will sure fit right in if ya like cattle and all that goes with having the double reccesive gene that causes normal people to become ranchers! :D
 
Thanks for replies. Got really busy this week, had a break in the weather and had alot of riding to do. We get heavy mists here at times.

The wolves here do get a little bigger, and the picture isn't great, I only seem to get shots in on the genetically or physically poor specimens...see the healthiest ones when the M16 or .22 is back at the ranch.

People here have tried donkeys, Merrima's, Grand Pyrinees..... I'll start a seperate thread on the way we try and manage wolves here. 7 years of cowboyin' in Canada and never had a problem with 'em!!
 

Latest posts

Back
Top