Soapweed
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This was weaning at my dad's place about fifteen or twenty years ago. We had a good sized crew, and sorted the cows away from their calves on horseback about a mile and a half away. Then the cows were ki-yiied to Dad's corrals where they were locked up and fed hay for three days. The calves were then turned onto an adjoining meadow to where they had last seen their mothers. Usually on weaning day, we would do two similar sized bunches in similar fashion--one before dinner and one after dinner. It was usually kind of a fun day. Dad and I always rode our best cutting horses to let just cows through the gate and hold the calves back. The other riders would hold the herd and let calves go one way down a fence line. A gate on a straight stretch of fence worked the best, so there was somewhere for the calves to go, too.
This was weaning at my dad's place about fifteen or twenty years ago. We had a good sized crew, and sorted the cows away from their calves on horseback about a mile and a half away. Then the cows were ki-yiied to Dad's corrals where they were locked up and fed hay for three days. The calves were then turned onto an adjoining meadow to where they had last seen their mothers. Usually on weaning day, we would do two similar sized bunches in similar fashion--one before dinner and one after dinner. It was usually kind of a fun day. Dad and I always rode our best cutting horses to let just cows through the gate and hold the calves back. The other riders would hold the herd and let calves go one way down a fence line. A gate on a straight stretch of fence worked the best, so there was somewhere for the calves to go, too.