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moving cows

Justin

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no hay ready to bale this morning, so we decided to move cows a couple days earlier than planned.

looking for cows
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still looking
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found some
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moving along
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headed through the gate
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fresh grass and headed over the hill
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long walk back
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moving cows can be tough on a 5 year old
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Soapweed

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Your countryside looks green, pretty, and productive, and the cows appear to be in bovine utopia. Your daughter worked hard and deserves her rest.
 

gcreekrch

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Good story Justin. Thanks, that little gal was just resting up for the afternoons work, just like any good hand will do when they have a chance. :wink:
 

Faster horses

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Good pictures. Reminds me of when our daughter was that age.
She just would not be left behind.

I'm wondering why you moved those cows. That grass still looks
awfully good.
 

Bob M

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This reminds me of the fall that Soapweed and his sister, Sandra, were in school. Sybil would have been five that comiing January, it must have been the fall of 1962. I didn't have a hired man and it seemed like I had cattle to move quite often and I saddled Spot up for Sybil who, like your daughter, never wanted to be left behind! One day my mother (Sybil's grandma) asked her, "Do you ride along just for tihe fun of it or do you actually go to help your dad?" Sybil said, "Heck, I have to do about all the work! Dad's always up ahead opening gates and moving cattle out of the way and never helps me drive the cattle."

Old Spot was a wonderful kid horse. She bucked green horn hired men off about as fast as they got on but she taught Soapweed, Sandra and Sybil the art of being cowboys, automatically doing what she would have done if being ridden by an experienced cowhand.
 

Justin

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Faster horses said:
Good pictures. Reminds me of when our daughter was that age.
She just would not be left behind.

I'm wondering why you moved those cows. That grass still looks
awfully good.

you are right FH, the grass where the cows were is still awfully good. I just like to move cows out of a pasture as soon as i can. these cows just got moved through the gate so it wasn't a huge move. we'll come back to the first pasture in about 30 days or so.
 

Faster horses

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Sounds like a good plan!
Our are on crested wheat pastures and they are acting a little
restless, so we should think about moving them, I suppose.

There is enough crested where they are that I think it would
work to swath it and leave it lay. Mr. FH has done this before
and they eat the swathed hay right up in the fall/winter.
When we had some irrigated land, he used to cut the ditch banks
and leave the grass lay. The cows would slick it right up. If we
just left it standing, they wouldn't touch it. I've since learned that
when you cut it, the nutrients that are in the grass stay; if you
leave it standing, the nutrients leach back out and the cows
don't like it. Cows are pretty darn smart. Give them a bad bale
of hay and a good bale of hay and they'll eat the good bale first
every time. Amazing what cows tell us, if we will but look. :shock:
 

Silver

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Faster horses said:
Cows are pretty darn smart. Give them a bad bale
of hay and a good bale of hay and they'll eat the good bale first
every time. Amazing what cows tell us, if we will but look. :shock:

Your right, but sometimes I think they just like a change. Sometimes in the depths of winter when you've been feeding good hay then throw out a stinker just to get rid of it they'll just lap it up. Go figure :???:
 

Justin

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talldog said:
Justin said:
talldog said:
Beautiful country----Nice looking horse, tell me more on the horse !! :)

which one?

The one you're riding .

"Rocky" is an 8 year old red roan gelding. if my wife sees me typing this she will jump in here and put her claim on him..i'll have to type quietly :wink: anyways, he is my wife's breakaway horse and he is also a finished tie-down horse. he is alot of fun to ranch on. really cowy and smooth as silk. but he will buck once and awhile, not because he is a bronc, but because he is an azzhole. harder than hell to catch, and pretty dam sneaky. to smart for his own good. but once you trick him and get him caught he's fun to ride. i've seen it before, some of the horses that a person can't stand to be around on foot are some of the best under the saddle. we have a 24 yr old bay here that has been retired for a few year and this guy is the king of azzholes, he just acts like he in always pissed off at the world. with that said, we will probably never own another one like him. he took my wife to the college finals in the breakaway and barrels, and i bulldogged off him. he would do anything you ask, he was mad about it, but would do it. my daughter will run barrels on him next year at the youth rodeos, if she wants. on the flip side, i bought a horse in billings a few years ago, came from an outfit in WA,(won't say the name unless someone wants to know :wink: ) who was said to be a full blown ranch horse :roll: i should have known better cause this horse is a pet and not worth a $hit.
 

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