Grassfarmer said:
Great pictures as usual Soapweed - you must have a huge herd as you seem to be sorting off heavies everyday and still never getting finished - or do you let them all join back up again at night so there's more cowboyin' to do the next day? :wink:
It isn't all that big of a herd, but I just like to sort. :wink: The herd is too big though, to have them all up close at once for calving. I like to sort each outlying bunch about every four days. If I try to sort just once a week, too many cows get missed and they calve where the protection is not all that good. Some get missed anyway. :?
Shortgrass said:
I thought the mule was sold. There I go thinking again.
He was "for sale" but no one ever came to look at him. The mule worked so good today that I called up the most interested potential buyer and took the mule off the market. I will just have to keep him where he can't kill any calves. I've been looking all my life for a mule this nice; now that I finally found him it would be hard to let him go. :roll:
Northern Rancher said:
Is that mule real smooth to ride-he strikes me as being being a pretty nice traveler.
The mule has a very fast walk and a smooth trot and lope. Although he doesn't really "watch" a cow just yet, he reins and maneuvers well enough that sorting heavy cows worked out nicely. He travels faster and "differently" than a horse.
Peach and I took our three little kids on a sixty mile wagon trip back in 1989 (the Kosmo Kid was only four months old). We had a buggy with a pair of saddle-type mules pulling it. There were four other wagons pulled by draft horses on the trip. Our mules traveled much faster, even though they were just walking, so we waited at each gate until the others could catch up.