gcreekrch
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Forgive me for I sinned and left the camera at home. 
We moved the Morrison Meadow bunch home yesterday. It is a 9 mile trip by road. There is a considerably shorter route through the bush that we were going to attempt but as we had tire troubles that haven't been rectified yet we decided not to take the chance of poking a stick in the only sound tractor we have at this point.
We have two cattleguards to bypass. They had not been plowed, (again because of tires) so it was elected that I be the leader and Debbie the head cow-person on the trip. The cows are in good physical condition as they have been walking 1/2 mile to water and back to the feedground all winter.
The herd had been in a big holding yard overnight and were ready to travel, the first two miles out MM driveway were a little faster than heavy cows should have traveled but I managed to stay in front of them with the 7200 and a bale. As the cattleguards got close, I would motor ahead and plowed the gates out and be in the lead again.
The last 2 1/2 miles climb 500 ft. I thought that the cows would be considerably slower by this time but the leaders still wanted to travel at 3.3 mph. The first 100 were home in 2.5 hours.
Debbie made it in at 3.5 hours with 2 of the bulls that decide to fight every 100 yards all the way home.
We had had the 5 bulls separate down at MM so sorted them off again and put them with 11 that have been at home. It reminded me of 5 strangers walking into a cowboy bar and starting an argument with the local patrons.
Hopefully the 60 acres they are in was big enough to keep them from mowing over fences.
2 of the 9 bought heifers calved on Sunday. One had a set of twins that has one survivor. Pulled the other at 1:30 AM. Some folks have a lot different idea of heifer bulls than we do.
I'll shut up now.
We moved the Morrison Meadow bunch home yesterday. It is a 9 mile trip by road. There is a considerably shorter route through the bush that we were going to attempt but as we had tire troubles that haven't been rectified yet we decided not to take the chance of poking a stick in the only sound tractor we have at this point.
We have two cattleguards to bypass. They had not been plowed, (again because of tires) so it was elected that I be the leader and Debbie the head cow-person on the trip. The cows are in good physical condition as they have been walking 1/2 mile to water and back to the feedground all winter.
The herd had been in a big holding yard overnight and were ready to travel, the first two miles out MM driveway were a little faster than heavy cows should have traveled but I managed to stay in front of them with the 7200 and a bale. As the cattleguards got close, I would motor ahead and plowed the gates out and be in the lead again.
The last 2 1/2 miles climb 500 ft. I thought that the cows would be considerably slower by this time but the leaders still wanted to travel at 3.3 mph. The first 100 were home in 2.5 hours.
Debbie made it in at 3.5 hours with 2 of the bulls that decide to fight every 100 yards all the way home.
We had had the 5 bulls separate down at MM so sorted them off again and put them with 11 that have been at home. It reminded me of 5 strangers walking into a cowboy bar and starting an argument with the local patrons.
Hopefully the 60 acres they are in was big enough to keep them from mowing over fences.
2 of the 9 bought heifers calved on Sunday. One had a set of twins that has one survivor. Pulled the other at 1:30 AM. Some folks have a lot different idea of heifer bulls than we do.
I'll shut up now.
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