Many of you might remember I had a charlois cow that we called "Meany" - - - this old girl should have gone to hamburger years ago but I kept trying to rehabilitate her.
This year she got so cahtankerous that she killed her own calf and fought any cow coming close to her.
I pened her up so that she had to go thru the chute to get water and back thru it to get hay for about a week ( side door of the chute was tied open)
Then on a bright Saturday morning in June we backed a trailer up and she could not see it till she had rounded the corner - - - she left the barn at a dead run - - - got the trailer door closed and off to the salebarn.
At the sale I told everyone she was nuts so they cleared the alley and put her in a bull pen - - - she broke thru into a pen with a large brama bull who put her in her place.
When her time came we cleared everyone and she ran full speed ahead rounded the curve and could not stop and rammed the end of the scale so hard we all thought she was dead - - - she got back to her feet and was as gentle as anything in the barn.
I told everyone she was terrible and not to buy her to go back to a farm - - -
Now this year when we weaned and preg checked I could not believe the differance - - - with her influance gone it was the easiest I think we ever worked cattle - - - mine are really to gentle if you have to grab an ear and lead them in the chute - - - I will never keep an old rip around again - - - no broken gates charges people.
Hind site is 20 / 20 but she should never have been bred even one time!
This year she got so cahtankerous that she killed her own calf and fought any cow coming close to her.
I pened her up so that she had to go thru the chute to get water and back thru it to get hay for about a week ( side door of the chute was tied open)
Then on a bright Saturday morning in June we backed a trailer up and she could not see it till she had rounded the corner - - - she left the barn at a dead run - - - got the trailer door closed and off to the salebarn.
At the sale I told everyone she was nuts so they cleared the alley and put her in a bull pen - - - she broke thru into a pen with a large brama bull who put her in her place.
When her time came we cleared everyone and she ran full speed ahead rounded the curve and could not stop and rammed the end of the scale so hard we all thought she was dead - - - she got back to her feet and was as gentle as anything in the barn.
I told everyone she was terrible and not to buy her to go back to a farm - - -
Now this year when we weaned and preg checked I could not believe the differance - - - with her influance gone it was the easiest I think we ever worked cattle - - - mine are really to gentle if you have to grab an ear and lead them in the chute - - - I will never keep an old rip around again - - - no broken gates charges people.
Hind site is 20 / 20 but she should never have been bred even one time!