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Here, it was old number 71! Now we have a hog gate wired over the cattle gate in the correl.
Your cow that could jump?
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My old No. 27 cow was pretty athletic. I dropped her off at the packing company and wondered if she'd stay in their 7' fences. She did. Best use for one like that...
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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Ours always raised a good calf!
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Ours always raised a good calf! Mine usually did, but lost 2, so she went away. I usually won't cull a cow for losing one, but two punches her ticket.
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Seems like I always had one or two that would go into a blind panic whenever they were in the work pens. Of course they would always find the flimsiest gate or part of the fence and totally crush it on her way over.
All because she couldn't quite jump as high as the moon.
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My old No. 27 cow was pretty athletic. I dropped her off at the packing company and wondered if she'd stay in their 7' fences. She did. Best use for one like that... Easy to handle two pound packages.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
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Renter bought some bred heifers from a rancher In Montana that were the worst fence jumpers I have ever seen. One would clear a six foot gate like it was nothing. When he moved them back to his place I told him if he brought them back the next spring, he’d lose the pasture.
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I've been busted up too many times to want to deal with crazy assed cows. Locker or sale barn.
Gentle cows raise just as nice of calves as the crazy ones do.
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Some friends we helped years ago had a mixed herd of longhorns and beef cattle, and one of the longhorn cows was terrible when we would go to gather them off the summer lease. Drive them into the holdup pens and the miserable old rip would jump out the other side. Run her down and drive her into the pens again and she would just jump out again. Do this two or three times and she would finally decide to let us load her to be shipped back to the ranch. She dissapeared one summer after a storm and they found her dead at the bottom of draw. Can't say that broke MY heart.
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These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Years ago, a friend called one evening and asked if I could help him, early the next morning, with some heifers he had bought that day. Sure, what time do you want me there..... about daylight. So the next morning I show up just before daylight and we go inside and drink coffee, waiting for it to get light.
Walk out to the pen and only 1 heifer was still there. During the night, the other 19 had jumped out. 6' board fence and not a board was broken anywhere. These were all red heifers and by the ear, I'd guess 1/2 brahman. Mighty fine mama cows, but hard to work.
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I have had a few that were fence jumpers or step thorough the wire cows. Most of them teach their calves to do the same thing.
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A horned heifer. Waiting on a catwalk at the Sioux City stockyards, this fellow said, I sold that heifer two weeks ago.
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