jodywy
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Trailing cattle
When we had a grazing permit on Little Greys River we trail the cattle 3 days down the highway, the first night staying in a small rented pasture. The second night there was an association pasture that was deeded in like 5 foot strip a half mile long for each share. The third night we hit the forest and would push the cattle up a small canyon for the night. We trail a couple more days up the river to the allotments. We trail in larger herd coming home cutting differ nit owners out in pastures or even on the highway at a junction. Everybody trucks now and sort at a big corral on the forest to cut out...
We trail to our permits now but that just out the gate, and sort in the fall out of our ranch corrals.
Was talking to a rancher at WSGA convention he had another ranch rented from his ranch 80 miles away. He thought he has the entire place rented but some of it had been spilt off to another owner and the winter grass would only handle half the herd of 1200 cows. He had spent over $40,000 in trucking already this year so he went to Outback Steak House and bought a few gift certificates and gave to every rancher bon the 80 miles to home and made a deal to trail and overnight the cattle. A lot of the trailing was along an unfenced county road some was across country, BLM and the last was a stock driveway that needed no permission... He said went about 10 miles a day, but the day they left the county road it rained and they had to ride the 10 miles back to the truck, the cattle had a day rest before the 10 mile ride to the cows and another ten mile drive.
He also trails 140 miles every spring to his mountain summer range but that along a Stock (trail) driveway. No pack horse and tents there is a trailer house set up for night camp where the cows will bed.
When we had a grazing permit on Little Greys River we trail the cattle 3 days down the highway, the first night staying in a small rented pasture. The second night there was an association pasture that was deeded in like 5 foot strip a half mile long for each share. The third night we hit the forest and would push the cattle up a small canyon for the night. We trail a couple more days up the river to the allotments. We trail in larger herd coming home cutting differ nit owners out in pastures or even on the highway at a junction. Everybody trucks now and sort at a big corral on the forest to cut out...
We trail to our permits now but that just out the gate, and sort in the fall out of our ranch corrals.
Was talking to a rancher at WSGA convention he had another ranch rented from his ranch 80 miles away. He thought he has the entire place rented but some of it had been spilt off to another owner and the winter grass would only handle half the herd of 1200 cows. He had spent over $40,000 in trucking already this year so he went to Outback Steak House and bought a few gift certificates and gave to every rancher bon the 80 miles to home and made a deal to trail and overnight the cattle. A lot of the trailing was along an unfenced county road some was across country, BLM and the last was a stock driveway that needed no permission... He said went about 10 miles a day, but the day they left the county road it rained and they had to ride the 10 miles back to the truck, the cattle had a day rest before the 10 mile ride to the cows and another ten mile drive.
He also trails 140 miles every spring to his mountain summer range but that along a Stock (trail) driveway. No pack horse and tents there is a trailer house set up for night camp where the cows will bed.