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Chickshunt2

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Hi All, I'm really new to cattle. The only cows I have been around are the ones a friend keeps on our place( we lease out the pasture) I have helped move them,sorted(calves from mommas), given shots,and got to watch the fall dehorning and nutting. ( I gave shots!) I'm wonding if anyone knows of a place I could go to ranching school ( anyone want a free ranch hand?) and learn more. I would love to know more about breeding,breeds,problems of breeds/types. More basic handling skills,feed needs,sicknesses. I would also love to find a rancher who would let me track their breeding program. If anyone is in ND and wouldn't mind a chick pokin her city nose into cows please send me an email.

Also anyone who could teach a lefty how to rope would be worth their weight in gold..or in todays world diesel. ( I would be happy to just rope a fence post..I know I'm starting out with the hard stuff lol)
 
Your joking right lol. I've never seen anybody do that-I could put you in a tent at rodeos and charge $.25 a gander lol. I can miss pretty regularily right handed.
 
the guy who taught me was left handed. When we started roping a bale we would have contests to see who could rope it fastest with our "off hand". I think I was also meant to be left handed but mom forced me to be right handed.
 
Left right I don't care I'll try either way. Just need a teacher. And I PM'ed ya JB. Funny you would say mom made you be right handed. The teachers in school saw that I used both my hands for many things and thought humm she must be left handed, to this day there are still many many things that I'll never be able to do with my left hand that I can do with my right.
 
The odd kid starts hockey and isn't sure what hand they shoot-we just give them a straight bladed stick and they can play any hand they want. They usually figure out a favorite side by year end.
 
I did lots of things left when I was under 5... But I was struggling with baseball so my big brother "taught" me how to throw and bat... he was a righty so he taught me righty.. To this day if I have to do something really finely I tend to use my left hand but all sports stuff is done lefty except kicking.. I am a lefty kicker.... I was able to play with both a lefty and a righty hockey stick but that is mostly because my mom bought a lefty for me on accident for my first stick and I played with it until I broke it.. Amazing, that stick lasted several years of pond hockey before I broke it.. Than it was like a stick a darn week for a while.. Everyone I knew went through a real bad stretch there with their sticks just shattering at the heel, a lot of folks ended up putting the little plastic blades on because their folks got tired of spending money on sticks or the kids ran out of allowance.
 
The hardest part of roping is keeping your loop open, and the trick to that is to roll your wrist. To learn that motion tip your head back till your face is pointed up and start spinning the rope and kiss the back of your hand. After you get that figured out then set a bale up on it's side and pick a spot on the left edge (in your case) about 6" from the front of the bale spin the rope and make the tip hit that spot. If you can do that your well on your way.
 

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