Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire The mystery calf....

Yep.

Unless a neighbor calls about it.

You can rest assured they are branding mavericks like that, themselves.

All sorts of beef eaters in the breaks that the fish and goose doesn’t talk about. Rancher friend of mine north of the river has seen cats, bear, wolves and certainly coyotes and who knows what else. I saw pictures of a monster wolf that was shot on the south side. Holy crap he was big

Gents, this calf is much more tame than any of our own.




The more I think about it the more I think it's gotta be a rogue bottle calf.


That or someone who has a little herd of 'pets'.

As I have mentioned here before, I grew up on a Dairy Farm in upstate New York. One April years ago, our neighbor called and asked us if we were missing a Holstein heifer. Seems when he let his cows out to clean the barn there was an extra head when he let them back in. It was not ours but it did have ear tags and was way thin. After checking ear tag registry it was from a farm 24 miles away!! It was not there when they rounded the heifers up in the Fall from the summer pasture and had spent all winter working its way down through all the State Land Woods to our neighbors place. This is pre Coyote days here so it is still amazing she survived. On the lighter side, my Brother-in-Law ended up with 2 Two year old heifers nobody ever claimed. They were not ear tagged and even with signs in both local feed stores and LOTS of Local Farmer Gossip on the subject, no one ever claimed them!!

Too bad it isn't a cow- you could name it Io and call that part of the river The Bosporus!


It isn't mine, the one I lost was gold. It

Looks like a "sancho" calf to me. That's why I asked how he was around people.

You guys tattoo inside their ears out there?

Just a bangs tattoo on the heifers.

When we vaccinate for brucellosis the vet applies a tattoo to the right ear. That and a bangs tag(orange metal clip in the top side of ear).


Those are for proof of vaccination, not ownership.



What Jim said...

Shaggy coat so that brand could be hard to see, but he sure doesn't appear to have one. He's young enough that there should be some sort of branding evidence still visible or a scar even with that much hair.

No ear marks, tags or waddles. I highly doubt he's got a lip tat if he has no other markings.

If nobody calls to ask about him, I'd say he's yours.

Lucky fücker.

He'll be around here for awhile.


Too small to sell with the rest of calves.


Maybe this spring he'll shed off enough to see a brand.

You can skin it and check the brand from the inside...

Right before the BBQ,

Give it to Jim's daughter....she'll have it broke to ride in no time.

Now if it was a pure white one you'd really have something.

I captured a nice looking black heifer just at sundown that was headed up the County road toward a State hiway less than a half mile away. I got on the phone calling neighbors describing her since she had no mark or brand. I learned a lot about my neighbors. One vent drove over to look at her and tried to talk himself into he notion she was his but his conscience intervened.

My conversation with old Luke Smith was the shortest. He asked: “ Does she have a Wineglass on her left hip? If she don’t, she ain’t mine.”

What is a Sancho calf? I'm thinking a corriente bull doesn't fit the story...

I gained a cow one year. Pulled into a field and thought, what is that black cow doing over here. As soon as she stood up I knew she was way bigger than my cows. I was trying to inspect her ear tag as she wouldn't stay out in the open. Just moved from tree to tree finally ending up in the pond. I'ld say someone had run her pretty hard with a truck at some point. I saw her brand, recognized it as the neighbors (few people brand here). Called the guy and told him I had his cow I'ld run her through the gate next time I was over there. He informed me he wasn't missing a cow, so I told him about the brand and asked him to come take a look. After some prodding he sent the farm hand over and the guy looked at the brand and still told me it wasn't theirs.... Well, fine, I'll keep her. The more I was around her the crazier she got. Wouldn't go in the corral, finally caught her in there with grain one day and she climbed over the hood of my truck to gain freedom. After she laid down and had a calf which was also loony, I waited for the calf to hit 400#, put it in the front of a trailer and waited, she went in madder than hell but I got the gate shut and I hope she's dog food. I'm sure my neighbors farm hand is still smiling about getting rid of her.

To many good cows in this world to put up with that crap.

Side note, I bought 28 heifers 2nd year I was farming. Didn't have a corral so dumped them in a 11acre field with damn good fence. next morning 2 were gone. 1 neighbor called a couple days later with 1 of them. He bought her for what i paid. Both of us were happy. I found the other heifer on my uncles place in the corral, made a call... didn't like that answer, so I called the sheriffs office, "ear tags aren't proof of ownership, only brands"...Later that day they had her re-eartagged.
I been meaning to start branding momma cows, this spring I should finally get it done.

I think I would name him ribeye.

A dude once asked a rancher if he ever ate his own beef?
The rancher answered “yup, whenever I eat at another outfit.”

lol i've been called sancho before.

I think you mean (dirty) Sanchez.

Sam
If you include shipping I’ll take him. And take real good care of him.
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