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| Greg,
I had to smile when I read your first post. We try to have our cow's act like your's with "mad cow syndrome" We run on desert country over 25 mile raduis. They can drift from one end to the other in winter time.We then trail them to another state after 6 mos. We have alot of people driving thru it as well. If the cows are gentle there is a greater risk of somebody taking a new born calf. Or a predator eating one.
We raise all our own replacement heifers from our cows, we calve them at home the first year. Try to calve in big pastures two-three acres per head. Really try not to bring them to home place to calve in yards. They are gentle the first two to three years, then look out! Even as heifers we still have a few that might try and put you under a feed tractor, when tagging a calf. I've had a few that you have to throw calf onto the truck bed to earmark and tag calf.
After only seeing someone chasing them a few times a year, they get a little "waspy" over time. You learn to work them a horseback, or run the risk of getting your lunch ate. You do not work them a foot in a corral for the risk of the few cows that want to make a floormat out of you. When we preg. check we set corrals up where the cows are, and run a cow every 50 seconds, That is total time to preg., retag, mouth them, vac. and worm them. You don't stand in front of the chute when it opens!
There get to be a few that get the nylon treatment every once and a while. That is when you get a little revenge on them! Don't get me wrong, we like to be able to work them a foot and gentle, but they get wild over time. And we can't sell every wild cow. I will sell one if she is a real headhunter, I got rid of one like that this fall, I turned my back for a spilt second in the corral and she nailed me! Sent my flying 12' into a fence, and I'm no little boy(over 300 lbs.).
When we haul them to town, before I unload them from the trailer, I warn auction people about them, which ones will take you. And if they are calvy, we send them to have their heads cut off, will not sell them as bred cows. | |
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