The last two--finally

[Big Muddy rancher]

I had a cow that wouldn't come home from the badlands winter pasture last spring. Every time we tried her she would brush up in the deepest and thickest of thorn bushes. Most times we couldn't find her, When we did we had no luck. A hfr that was cavled out in the yard and her calf that was tagged showed up north with her late summer and again no luck bringing them out.
Yesterday we had located them camping on the shore of the Big Muddy lake with another group of cows. We took two quads in the stock trailer and 114 feet of panels on the flat deck trailer. When we got them up off the lake shore the old cows wouldn't come up the trail but dove into some brush. After trying to get her out for a while we left her and got the others following Dad with my deck truck with corn for bait. Britt and I scooted ahead and set up the panels while Dad brought the cows right up. I fed some corn in the corral but couldn't coax the two calves and a hfr of the neighbors. Well i wasn't getting the ones in I wanted and they were starting to leave so Britt and I jumped on the quads and brought the calves back around and they ran in to a few cows that stayed eating corn and we had them.
I had a calf winter with his mother up there last winter but she was a good strong cow not a first calver or old like the "Miserable" one.

 

[Soapweed]

I had a cow that wouldn't come home from the badlands winter pasture last spring. Every time we tried her she would brush up in the deepest and thickest of thorn bushes. Most times we couldn't find her, When we did we had no luck. A hfr that was cavled out in the yard and her calf that was tagged showed up north with her late summer and again no luck bringing them out.
Yesterday we had located them camping on the shore of the Big Muddy lake with another group of cows. We took two quads in the stock trailer and 114 feet of panels on the flat deck trailer. When we got them up off the lake shore the old cows wouldn't come up the trail but dove into some brush. After trying to get her out for a while we left her and got the others following Dad with my deck truck with corn for bait. Britt and I scooted ahead and set up the panels while Dad brought the cows right up. I fed some corn in the corral but couldn't coax the two calves and a hfr of the neighbors. Well i wasn't getting the ones in I wanted and they were starting to leave so Britt and I jumped on the quads and brought the calves back around and they ran in to a few cows that stayed eating corn and we had them.
I had a calf winter with his mother up there last winter but she was a good strong cow not a first calver or old like the "Miserable" one.

An ounce of sunshine diplomacy is worth a pound of windy force. You got 'em, and that's what counts. It would have been more "glamorous" had you used a couple horses and roped them, but fast horses and icy ground doesn't make a very safe working environment. All is well that ends well.

 

[Denny]

Get yourself a seed corn hat and buy a dart gun thats what I did those miserable rips get 5 cc of rompum and its nighty night can load them quite easily then.

 

[gcreekrch]

Glad you got then and a little fun was had.

 

[bearvalley]

We're going to need another forum on here right under Horses & Dogs. We can name it Quads & Poodles. :wink:

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

We're going to need another forum on here right under Horses & Dogs. We can name it Quads & Poodles. :wink:

Yep

We rode horse up there twice , one time we scoured the coulees and couldn't find anything and the second time we had seen a pair of cows and calves so took horses up and it turned out to be some that got up there later. I moved them off and Britt rode to the lake and found the old cow and the hfr. Her horse literally put her shoulder into the cow and pushed her up the hill but we could never get all the cows together and the old cow brushed up. The hfr and calves wouldn't leave her so instead of coming home with nothing we trailed the two to a neighbors corral and loaded them up..

 

[Nicky]

We're going to need another forum on here right under Horses & Dogs. We can name it Quads & Poodles. :wink:

Yep

We rode horse up there twice , one time we scoured the coulees and couldn't find anything and the second time we had seen a pair of cows and calves so took horses up and it turned out to be some that got up there later. I moved them off and Britt rode to the lake and found the old cow and the hfr. Her horse literally put her shoulder into the cow and pushed her up the hill but we could never get all the cows together and the old cow brushed up. The hfr and calves wouldn't leave her so instead of coming home with nothing we trailed the two to a neighbors corral and loaded them up..

Where were the dogs?

 

[3words]

I had 2 bulls pull that crap this fall,finally got them caught and they got a 1 way trip to the stockyards.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

We're going to need another forum on here right under Horses & Dogs. We can name it Quads & Poodles. :wink:

Yep

We rode horse up there twice , one time we scoured the coulees and couldn't find anything and the second time we had seen a pair of cows and calves so took horses up and it turned out to be some that got up there later. I moved them off and Britt rode to the lake and found the old cow and the hfr. Her horse literally put her shoulder into the cow and pushed her up the hill but we could never get all the cows together and the old cow brushed up. The hfr and calves wouldn't leave her so instead of coming home with nothing we trailed the two to a neighbors corral and loaded them up..

Where were the dogs?

"Discretion is the better part of Valor"

I didn't think the old cow would respond to the dogs with much success and they would have had the others worked up maybe a little to much. :?

 

[gcreekrch]

You get the ol' darlin' in the open again with a quad you can tip her "Aussie Style" and tie her hind legs together. All you need then is a rope halter and a trailer.

You may want to only attempt this in a flat area. :wink:

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

You get the ol' darlin' in the open again with a quad you can tip her "Aussie Style" and tie her hind legs together. All you need then is a rope halter and a trailer.

You may want to only attempt this in a flat area. :wink:

Getting close to her on flat ground with a trailer was the problem. She might come out now her calf is gone, but the trail down to where they are wintering can be a real problem. hoping the weather holds a few more days so I can get a load of tubs placed.

 

[gcreekrch]

A little snow and you could skid her out once she was subdued.

 

[LazyWP]

I had 3 that thought they were gonna stay in Nebraska instead of going back to South Dakota. It was blowing every bit of 40 mph, and she was sure she was going Northwest instead of south east. Ended up letting her push on my horse long enough to get a rope fished on her. Tied her down, and then had to figure out how to get her back to the corrals. Couldn't get the pickup up the hill.

 

[Whitewing]

If you'd been a Venezuelan cowboy, you'd have killed her and eaten her on the spot.