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wild snotty cows

I used to have some cows that it wasn't safe to be a foot around. If they would raise a good calf I kept them and just made sure I was a horseback when I was around them. Always hoped they calved by them selves so I didn't have to fool with them. Had one of the meaner ones trying to have a calf with a foot back in a little pasture where I had a corral and a calving shed. Couldn't drive her to the corral because she kept fighting my horse. We just went around in circles with me trying to drive her and she was butting my horse. The calf was still alive but starting to swell so I knew I needed to get something done pretty quick. Couldn't drive her and I was alone so I heeled her, pulled her down, tied her front feet together then tried to push the calf back in and get the other foot out. Worked until my arms played out but couldn't get him pushed back to strighten out his leg. By the time my arms played out the calf was dead. Walked to the shed and got a puller, put the chain around his head and the one leg that was out and pulled him that way. It was a hard pull but I got him. Untied her front feet got ahorseback, threw the slack to her and when she got up she took to my horse again. She slicked up on green grass that spring and I hauled her to the sale barn.
 
Northern Rancher said:
Not enough to use the dwarfy little prick lol. Did I mention I don't like EXT's lol.
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There you go again, getting all uptight and name calling etc. Do they have any anger management clinics up there ??? Maybe you could get some help before you've went and hauled all your best genetics to the sale barn !! :lol: :lol:
 
Yeah right-I could of survived a few of them but we had over a 100 of the little snot rockets at one time-heck if the border opens I can ship you a load of them lol. If all my ranting saves one person from making the same mistake I did it's worth it.
 
There's only one place for high headed cows, it's called the Cattle Truck :mad: There's no shortage of good cows in north america so why keep the crap cows. Besides have you seen the premiums on Blue Cross lately :lol:
 
About 2 weeks ago someone wrote a letter to the editor in Agrinews.Dear seedstock producers please quit breeding the mothering ability out of your cows.
Most often if they are rank at calveing so what its their mothering ability coming thru.
 
I'll take a cow who is a little timid and will more likely take to me than the calf, rather than one that wants to see if she can make me set a new land speed record. :shock:
 
From what I've read on this thread, I've come up with this observation.

The older you get and the more you lean towards the farmer mentality, the more you want gentle cows. :wink:

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The thing is they aren't good mothers either-they're are just like a whitetail doe-if you touch they're calves they abandon them for half a day. Trust me I can handle as wild a cattle as anybody but stupid I draw the line at. Don't ever use the 'farmer' word around me lol-not a wise plan-heck I don't even own a tractor lol.
 
So Jinglebob, We are farmers what are you saying?? We are dumb? What qualifies as cowboy or farmer? And whats wrong or better? Inlighten me. Is it wrong to own a tractor? Apparently you know more, so clue me in...
 
katrina said:
So Jinglebob, We are farmers what are you saying?? We are dumb? What qualifies as cowboy or farmer? And whats wrong or better? Inlighten me. Is it wrong to own a tractor? Apparently you know more, so clue me in...
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OOooo, did I touch a sore spot?

There is nothing wrong with farmers. They raise the food we eat.

A farmer would rather use a 4 wheeler than a horse and would work their cattle afoot rather than use a horse.

A farmer would use a calf hook and a cowboy would use a rope.

Farmers motivation for having cattle is too either make money or to utilize roughage or grain, that he/she can make more money off from than if he/ she were to sell it. Cowboys have cattle as they don't know what else to do to utilize their grass. And they don't want to run sheep on it. And they like to ride after and rope at cattle.

Farmers would tend to run their cattle in smaller pastures and have them more confined while a cowboy would rather have the cattle out grazing and not want them as confined.

Farmers tend to farm, and cowboys tend to cattle. :wink:

Neither is any better or worse than the other.

These are very loose classifications.

JMHO

These are all generalizations and should in no way be construed as limiting factors. One mans farmer is another mans cowboy.
As with all generalizations, the fact that they are generalizations, would make them wrong. :wink:
 
Jinglebob, we have two types of land around here where I live. Land that is good enough to grow crops, and land that is more suited to pasture and hayland. Most families around here own both types, therefore most families raise crops and cows. Some of us work cattle on foot or with trucks, some of us do it the cowboy way. Whatever works for each family. Most pastures are larger than you're giving us "farmers" credit for. Once we're in the field, the cows are put in the pastures and they fend for themselves. They are not shunted around from pasture to pasture, they move around on their own. As long as they are checked every few days to make sure all is alright, they are basically left alone. Not babied as you insinuate. Up here, where I live, it's called DIVERSIFICATION. What makes you money one year, won't make it for you the next. Cows, one year, crops, the next. Do ya see what I'm saying? Hell, I'm starting to lose my train of thought! What I mean, is just because we're farmers, doesn't mean we all have those "gentle" cows. We have what works for our individual family situations.


Whew, I'm done now!
 
Jinglebob?? Did you touch a nerve here most likely the SODBUSTER NERVE..

COWBOYS HATE SODBUSTERS :lol2: :nod:
 
Denny said:
About 2 weeks ago someone wrote a letter to the editor in Agrinews.Dear seedstock producers please quit breeding the mothering ability out of your cows.
Most often if they are rank at calveing so what its their mothering ability coming thru.
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Soooo True!!!
 
Man! Doesn't anyone have a sense of humor anymore? :shock:

If you use a tractor and till the ground to raise a crop, you would be farming. Why would you take offense at being called a farmer? Don't you think farmers are good people?

When people ask me what I am, I usually tell them i am a grass farmer as what i try to do is raise a good crop of grass and I market my grass thru' grazing with bovines.

Lighten up people.

And I know people who run cows on thousands of acres of land, but they call themselves farmers.

The size of a "big" pasture and a "little" pasture varies according to where you are. I know people who refer to anything under 4 sections as "a small trap".

I also know people who have a section and call it a "big pasture".

None of what I said was said to cause offense. It was a small attempt at humor.

If we can't laugh at ourselves, we are in a pretty bad state of mind.

Sorry! :oops:

And besides, I didn't call anyone anything, you took it upon yourselves to call yourselves farmers, then got mad at me for saying you were. Never cuss a farmer, with your mouth full of food.

Kind of like the people who sneer at sheepherders while wearing weool or using a saddle that has wool on the skirts.

There are so damn few of us in agriculture left, I don't see why anyone would scorn or cuss someone else, just because they do something a little different. Talk about small minds. :x
 
Who would have ever thought "our jinglebob" would disrespect a poor ole Hay Maker :D
I have been chased a time or two by snotty cows as my friend jinglebob calls em,no big deal,bulls on the other hand get my attention fast,when the old Union stock yards were workin in San Antonio,I saw it come to a complete stop once,some cowboys brought a santa gertrudis bull in off the King Ranch that was rank,rank enough to have the alleys clear till that bull was through the ring and loaded on a trailer before they would restart the sale.................good luck
 
HAY MAKER said:
Who would have ever thought "our jinglebob" would disrespect a poor ole Hay Maker :D
I have been chased a time or two by snotty cows as my friend jinglebob calls em,no big deal,bulls on the other hand get my attention fast,when the old Union stock yards were workin in San Antonio,I saw it come to a complete stop once,some cowboys brought a santa gertrudis bull in off the King Ranch that was rank,rank enough to have the alleys clear till that bull was through the ring and loaded on a trailer before the would restart the sale.................good luck
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Please go back and read my post above yours.
 

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