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Rescues we've done over the years...

WyomingRancher

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Here are a few pictures from years gone by where we had to rescue calves :roll: . Obviously these were taken before the digital camera, so I took pics of the pics :D .

I could hear a calf bawling, and her mom was searching in the area, so I had some clues where to look. She had fallen down into these rocks with no way out.
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This cow was frantically bawling one morning, and I could hear a very faint calf answering her. I looked and looked, never thinking to check under a very small opening underneath some boulders. Finally I figured it out, and called Jim over for help. He was back underneath the boulders about 6 feet in a little hole, with no clearance at all. We used the calf hook to get him out, but it wasn't easy :D .
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I'd been missing a calf for a week, and assumed he was dead. NOPE...one morning I could see some little black thing crawling up out of a draw. He had fallen through the snow, down into a draw and lived off of willow roots and snow until it melted the snow enough to where he could crawl out :roll: . The heifer took him right back luckily, he was a little thin for a while, but alive :D .
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This is the picture I like to show folks who can't possibly understand why we mean ranchers would shoot an innocent coyote :? . Obviously this wasn't a rescue, but a euthanasia instead :mad: .
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Triangle Bar

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Thanks for the reminder of triumphs & tribulations, WY Rancher. We ranchers sacrifice more for our animals than the city folk could ever imagine.
 

MsSage

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some great shots. What gets me is how some of these calves survive some of the things they get into :roll: ...or in the last pic what gets into them. :cry: :cry: :cry:
 

Trinity man

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I did some horse rescues last summer with Houston Animal Cops. It is pretty cool feeling help these animal. It showed on TV about three months ago. I also trained one of the horses and they come out and video it. But they only showed part of it on TV. I took my oldest daughter to ride my gelding as a was riding the horse I broke. It will be something she will never forget.
 
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