Richard I've never been much of a story teller but for the past week we have been dealing with a high headed old bitch of a cow.
We have some small pastures here close to home where we run old cows/calves without a bull. Wean the calves, fatten up the cows a little and sell them as canners. We've been hauling them feed for the last 45-50 days and should have pulled the calves sooner but our feed yard was a mudhole and we waited until it froze up to bring home the last 50 calves.
Anyway last week we pen the 20 or so old pairs in the 'railroad pasture' and proceed to haul them out in a stock trailer. First load ol' #710 blows by me and shakes her head doing the sideways Mexican fighting cow routine. Immediately I think sonuvabitch this old hide is gonna be trouble. Sure enough she's getting squirrelier every time we come to get another load. Last load she is the last cow on the trailer and just as I run up to slam the trailer gate she spins out of the trailer.
Now is when the fun starts.
She's the only cow left in the pen and really wigs out. Knocks my dad down, and starts running around the pen like a race horse. I holler at dad to get the hell outta there! He was slightly stunned and kinda looked at me and I said GET THE FUUCK OUTTA THERE NOW!
Luckily crazy bitch spies the weak point in the corral and hits it at full throttle blowing right through.
Great.
She is running full out, tail in the air, head high. I'm thinking god damn it, no way we're gonna get her back in!
Light bulb came on a few seconds later and I let out a 'calf in distress call'. Somehow she heard and stopped looking back at the corral. I wasn't sure if we'd already hauled her calf home but when I looked in the trailer the calf just happened to be looking right at me standing in front of the slider gate. SWEET! Open it up and he jumps back out into the loading alley were we locked him up as bait.......
Wait a few days for the old bitch to settle down and get hungry and we lured her back into the repaired corral. No way in hell could we go into the corral with her so we load the calf first and figure if she knows her calf is in the trailer she might load up behind him.
Wrong, she gets wild again and crawls/jumps over a 6' steel panel on the alley way and back out she goes.
Sonuvabitch!
Repeat the hunger game and we caught her again on Monday.
This afternoon we chained up a heavy duty panel and set it at about 8' high. Load the calf and she starts for the trailer but gets goofy again. This time she jumps up on the frozen water tank and over a 5' panel tearing it all to hell.
I looked at the boss and said I'm shooting that bitch tomorrow.
He agreed.
So what really went wrong last week🤔🤔🧐
