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Post by dave on Nov 27, 2019 16:42:39 GMT -6
Well the great white cowboy went to work some time last night and has been working steady ever since. Yesterday a wayward cow showed up in my driveway. Late morning I had to drive to town and there was 3 pairs at the cattle guard. The cows still up in the hills should start showing up regularly. And there is still a lot of cows up there. There was still a lot of grass as it was a great grass year. Normally in the fall they start drifting down on their own as grass and water dry up. Not this year. They have been playing hide and seek from the cowboys. But they can't play hide and seek from the great white cowboy.
The wayward cow wouldn't pose for me.
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Post by highgrit on Nov 28, 2019 7:08:59 GMT -6
That looks worse than a 100 degrees to me.
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Post by hughespieds on Nov 28, 2019 8:07:24 GMT -6
Snow does nothing good for me.
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Post by bulltrader on Nov 28, 2019 8:11:03 GMT -6
Sure is a different world here. Sunny and I can see my 100 or so head in about 10 minutes. I think I would like to visit but like the cows I would wonder south when the snow comes.
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Post by chuckie on Nov 28, 2019 8:43:48 GMT -6
Hey, snow sure adds nitrogen to the soil. It will help make another great summer for the grasses!!
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Post by dave on Nov 28, 2019 10:36:59 GMT -6
That great white cowboy was at it this morning. At about 7:30 there was a string of cows and calf that came marching down the road past here. Must have been 20 pairs or more. They were strung out for a quarter mile or more. The majority of the cows were raised here so they know where to go to get fed in the winter.
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Post by farmerjan on Nov 28, 2019 19:16:17 GMT -6
I would love to see it too..... but it is a whole different mindset, and way of raising cattle than anything I have ever experienced. I get pretty upset if I can't find all the cows that are supposed to be in certain pastures when I go check and count. Cannot imagine never seeing cattle from turn out to gather up..... Loved the pics of the bighorns that you had posted.
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Post by hughespieds on Nov 28, 2019 19:27:13 GMT -6
Hey, snow sure adds nitrogen to the soil. It will help make another great summer for the grasses!! Glad there's enough to help you, but we don't get enough. All snow does around here is freak a bunch of people out that think they need to be driving on it when they haven't a clue.
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Post by dave on Nov 29, 2019 19:47:46 GMT -6
I would love to see it too..... but it is a whole different mindset, and way of raising cattle than anything I have ever experienced. I get pretty upset if I can't find all the cows that are supposed to be in certain pastures when I go check and count. Cannot imagine never seeing cattle from turn out to gather up..... Loved the pics of the bighorns that you had posted. Most of them don't go spring to fall unseen. They generally get moved two or three times over the summer. But some do miss the gather and move. Occasionally you find one in the spring with a new calf and a yearling following her. Most will come out in the fall on their own, The last couple days everyone has been getting up into the hills and opening all the gates. It isn't a steady stream but fairly regularly today groups of cows and calves have come marching by.
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Post by dave on Jan 16, 2020 19:32:24 GMT -6
Had a cow show up here last night. One of neighbor C's cows. She is a dry cow. He pulled the calves the end of September and kicked the cows back out. The other cows were gathered in late November. We have no idea where she was hiding but she is in good shape and she saved him some feed by staying out. He had one bull that he searched and searched for. Could never find him. He showed up at a ranch about 15 miles from here in late December.
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Post by randy on Jan 17, 2020 6:37:41 GMT -6
That part elk or Jersey? Sounds like he is the traveling kind to me.
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Post by dave on Jan 17, 2020 8:53:49 GMT -6
That part elk or Jersey? Sounds like he is the traveling kind to me. No he is a pure bred Angus. There is nothing but range land between here and the ranch where he showed up at. Being a young bull he didn't know which way to go. He headed west instead of heading east. It was also an Angus cow who showed up in my back door. Around early December all the gates get opened so any cows still out can find their way down to the valley.
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Post by randy on Jan 17, 2020 16:27:09 GMT -6
You would think the bull would have hung around the bunch he had been running with and followed them but you never know what a bovine gets to thinking.
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Post by birddog on Jan 17, 2020 20:45:22 GMT -6
He probably got his ass whupped enough times that he went off on his own.
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Post by dave on Jan 17, 2020 21:36:38 GMT -6
I know of several cows from that ranch who came this way. There are miles after miles of fence up there. They are more of a suggestion than a barrier. He would have been in an area about half way between here and where he ended up showing up at. When considering his options he picked a pretty good one for him. Going to the north he would have dropped down into the canyon. It is 15 miles through the canyon. In that distance there is only 5 places to get off the top down to the canyon floor. The rest is all too steep. Coming to the east (this way) he would have to cross two major north/south canyons. Going south..... it is about 30 miles as the crow flies to anything. In that distance he would have crossed two goat trails disguised as roads. That is some big country where the only way to gather cattle is horse back with good dogs. Or going to the west (the way he went) he would just have to climb over a tall well grassed ridge and a long open slope down to the ranches over there. He would have had plenty of cow company going that direction.
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