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I know this might ruffle a couple of peoples feathers- but so be it...

I had a fellow come out today to get a movement permit to haul 8 pairs to Rosebud County...When he got here, he found they had got the center gate of the trailer open and the cows and calves were mixed together- which we felt was not good for a 250 mile trip... So we unloaded them in my corral to sort the calves off... Two cows immediately on the prod- the only two Salers in the bunch...The one had us all over the fence several times and was trying to go over the top pole after me when I hit her between the eyes with a persuader I found laying on the ground (2 X 4)....Probably not Temple Grandin approved, but I don't think Temple has ever worked with many Salers...We finally got them sorted and loaded without saddling a horse to chase any back in, which I thought was a miracle since my corrals are not Saler proof ( if such a thing exists)...I'd of loved to seen someone trying to get a Mandatory ID eartag reading off those two :wink: :lol: :lol:

Got me to thinking- what a cross a guy would get if he bred a bunch of Saler cows to Northern Ranchers buddy EXT... :roll: You might breed the most survivable animal on the earth next to the cockroach and the coyote... :wink:
 
I have to agree with you about them Salers. They are the meanest, nastiest bovines on the face of the earth. We had a couple here when I first moved here, FIL bought them cheap. We found out why they were at a sale. Couldn't do nothing with them, and they were on the warpath. My husband was actually MIA one time for six hours because of a Saler cow. She had just calved, he went to check the calf, and ended up holed up in a calf shed because that's where the bench rolled him and wouldn't let him out! Wasn't concerned for her calf, just wanted to kill him. He smoked one cigarette after another while he laid in there, and butted every one on her nose. When I finally realized he was missing, it took his dad and one of his brothers to distract her so he could get out. That mean SOB got a one way ticket to the slaughterhouse.
 
Geez does everyuthing have to be quiet as a dead pig-I'd take Saler cows over EXT's any day of the week-for several reasons-good haired, muscle and Salers are the best footed cattle I've ever seen. The guys left breeding them have bred most of the snot out of them but there have been some starchy ones over the years. They are good cattle to pasture rope they run nice and straight with their heads up. About 8-9 years ago we were moving 400 yearlings for a neighbor and a plow jockey drove through them-scattered them all through a bunch of sloughs and brush. We roped and hog tied yearlings for two days after that-some SalersX in there it was lots of fun.
 
Now this I can speak on... I've got about 10 Saler ( Frenchman bloodline) and EXT crosses and they are the best, so tame they'd almost be house-cows if you'd let them...and the best producers of the bunch!!

Four of their calves were State heifer Champs....and if I did ALL commercial critters...I'd have nothing but these. They are about 1/4 to 1/8th Saler and the rest Angus ( EXT most of them)
 
Well....I run such a small operation that I can practically 'hand raise' anything on the the place. That makes a BIG difference. In fact that's my best selling point is that my critters are so tame.

I loaded a 2300lb bull once for a fellow who came up here looking like Howdy Doody with a new truck , trailer, hot stick and all!! I told him to get in his truck....sit there with his hot stick and he'll feel when the bull loads on. Let me do the loading! ( Sometimes this really upsets the men who buy the cattle...they think I can't do it cause I'm not that big!!)

I just led the bull on with a couple of range cubes in my hand and a hay string around his neck!!

The bull was 1/4 Saler and 3/4 EXT!!
 
Some of my better cows trace back to a Saler Cross cow. Very nice, but that is what I have seen as the exception. WE handle these cattle a lot too..


PPRM
 
Well...I have an uncle that thinks its' MANLY to have a man-killer, snot slinging bulls and cows!!

He's on his 4th new pickup in 4 yrs and each and every one you have to reach out and open the door from the outside as his MANLY bulls have beat the doors in so bad the doors are warped. He carries a baseball bat in the truck when he goes into the fields!!!

I don't want ANYTHING on the place that I have to take a baseball bat in the pastures with me just to ck on them.

Why make life difficult?
 
We used to have them and got along fine. If there was a snotty one she got culled just like all snotty cows should be no matter what breed. We had a 7/8 saler cow that would eat cake right out of your hand. When you worked cattle she was the first one at the gate waiting for her treats. All of her calves were like that too.

She did get to be dangerous about age 17 before we sold her. When she was eating cake out of your hand she almost stepped on you. I think her eye sight wasn't as sharp as it used to be because she just did'nt seem to know how close she was.

Have a good one

lazy ace
 
A good culling point around here is a white switch on the tail, remnants of the Salers and Saler/AN cross bulls and cows on this place when we got here. I took those bulls into the Roundup vet clinic to be fertility tested and the first three almost destroyed the clinic so we loaded them back up and went home before someone got seriously hurt, mostly me, I had to get them in the chute as no one else would be the bull bait to get them to run you down the alley into the chute. Those fence jumping man killers have no place on this ranch, I think they are considered an endangered species as a matter of fact. :wink:
 
Reminds me of a story afriend told me. He said to gather some "SAILORS" at the neighbors they trotted to the far side of the pasture then loped home and as they cattle ran in the corral you swung the gate shut and watched them Sail over the back fence.
 
And then someone is nuts enough to cross them on Angus and you get Angry Sailors.
 
I did raise purebred salers. I still have several around. They have never been any problem and honestly the cows and bulls were as gentle or more so than any of my neighbors. I did get a crazy calf or two every year. They got their heads cut off. There is more difference within any breed than there is between the best cattle of each breed. Good ones are good ones. I've calved several hundred salers over the years and never had a prolaps. That's worth something. They are also very good footed. Their udder quality isn't the best but they all milked for me very well. The biggest problem with salers here is their hair coat. They're hard to look at all shaggy. Lots of salers used to be real tight gutted also. I hate that. Mine were big volumed and meaty and did a real good job. To each his own but I'll always keep a certain amount of saler in my commercial cows. They work for me. BTW I never had a saler not take a calf either. I guess that's also worth something.
 
Our daughter and her husband interviewed for a job in some big lonesome country in Oregon back in 1987. There were new owners
and their plans were to cross Saler and Longhorn. Thought they'd
do good in that country. They didn't take the job and I never heard
how the cross worked out.

Hope they didn't plan to corral them much, and I don't think they did.
 
When I was in highschool I worked at the salebarn.We had a Saler heifer come out the sale ring and jumped every gate going north until she was free next day we found her in with some cows got her in the corral and all hell broke loose the boss told us to hang on a minute he went to the truck got his 44 came back and shot here all he said was well call the butcher.
 
When I was in Junior High my Uncle raised salers and they were not a problem. I think this breed like with some others is in how they are handled and what they are used to.
 
Our first experience with Salers was at the stockyards in Dillon, Mt.
We went there for a bull sale. A Saler sale had been held the day before. Every gate in that place was busted.

The Salers are very socialble. They don't like being seperated and when
they tried to seperate the bulls for the sale, all hell broke loose.
 
There
's a lot of room between having a house pet and a man killer-my kids help me handle our cows so they aren't mankillers but they sure don't like their ears scratched either. seen some pretty colossal wrecks with cattle that don't respect you. I saqw my buddy just about get it from a 'tame' Saler bull-he just beat him to the fence opr it would of been nasty-he'd been scratching him the second before-cattle are like people if they got long hair and nuts don't trust them.
 

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