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Toughest Move We Make

Northern Rancher

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Dezzy was ready

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Coming off the home field

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Making the turn


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Heading up the ridge

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South Devon at the back

This little shift looks easy but it's a nightmare with baby calves. The ditch is alot deeper when not full of snow. The small calves get down in there and loose track of the cows and turn back. The cows head up over the ridge and if the calves hold up it can be a real gong show. We try and not have to do it in early calving but to do it right you need to really move slow-we hold the cows in that little area-then let them through the gate and hold them again. I dug a little catchpan and move them on the dryside so they hold easier. That short little move brought on Sara's birth-we were moving from west to east that day-Shauna was supposed to drive the truck to the gate and hold them till I came over the ridge with the tailend-she drove through the gate by accident and dumped the cows onto what then was the main highway. About an hour after we got them settled Sara arrived lol. They're heading to another couple weeks of bale grazing about a quarter mile past that ridge.
 

Northern Rancher

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That cow in the front is a purebred cow I bought-kind of gynormous compared to the home raised cows-the outfit had a reputation for running cattle tough but she recognized a five gallon pail lol.
 

starvin'dog

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There'll be some big whitetails out of your country again next fall. You look to have a lot less snow than here, and we are probably less than normal.
I hear you about moving baby calves.
 

Northern Rancher

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We'd just got 5 or 6 inches of fresh stuff-the melts and rains really cut our snow before that-they got some easy licking ahead for awhile. That darn little move cost me a calf years ago-we were moving midcalving and Ty saw a cow calving-he left her behind and moved the herd. Shortly after she calved she left her calf and crawled a couple fences to get with the bigger bunch. We packed the calf out to her-an hour later it was back to where she'd calved-I think you can figure out how this ballet played out in the end-the cows breed isn't represented in my current pictures lol. As we switched to calving out there was a % of cows that got culled because they never could figure out how to be mothers out of a pen.
 

LazyWP

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Great pictures. And you can keep the snow. It finally melted off here to the point that we were able to at least ride horses to move our "BIG" cow herd out to where we can keep an eye on them.
 

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