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    I just wanted to gripe.......

    :lol: i guess i am a wannabe ? i may have a pocket knife in my pocket but dont carry no pliers with me. maybe some in my truck but i dont carry them on me. do good to have a jack and lug wrench in the company truck and to be honest i dont care to use either one of them either. usually when i...
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    I just wanted to gripe.......

    One place we went the guy had a 50x50x50x50 ft pen with a 32 inch wide chute in one corner of the pen and the chute was about 16 ft long. We took the only thing we could find to make something to help as a crowding gate it was some sort of galvanized frame not sure exactly what it was? It was...
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    I just wanted to gripe.......

    I pick up a few cattle sometimes for a local sale barn. I don't haul cattle full time. Each time we go to a place there always seems to be an adventure. :D You will see pens/corrals erected out of stuff you never dreamed you could make a pen or corral out of. Not to mention the pens with no...
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    I just wanted to gripe.......

    Or should I put this in tips and tricks? lol
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    I just wanted to gripe.......

    Folks seems every time we go to someone place to load cattle there is always a few things I see each place we go. When folks make a loading chute they always seem to have it so that your backing up hill to load or either down hill. Most of the time the chutes are always at a strange angle or...
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    Here's a Craiglist ad for you all

    well if n yall need a couple of nice bulls here are two on craigslist. these are drought type cattle they dont eat near as much. http://austin.craigslist.org/grd/2404762107.html http://austin.craigslist.org/grd/2387032143.html or how about a hornless longhorn...
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    Texans watch out.

    the packers arent buying the calves just the cows. the pairs are being split with the packer taking the cows and calves be sold to the feedlot or who ever. that may happen in places and i have seen it done but i havent seen the packer buyers buy a pair and then sale the calf here lately. the guy...
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    Texans watch out.

    there isnt any grass around here to catch a fire. maybe alot of smoking cow piles. before long wont be any cows around here with as many of them being sold and most cows going to the packer. most pairs are split and cows go to the packer along with good young bred cows that should be going back...
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    What do you carry?

    a stick an steel toed boot. usually a fiber glass sorting stick or paddle or a yupon limb. :cboy: :lol2:
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    Fayette County Tx Folks i need your help

    lol i missed your post earlier and yes your right next time he leaves will only be if someone buys him. i am gonna look around and buy them a bull that way if he gets out its their deal. atleast now they have numbers of people to contact. thanks Chrisy me too.
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    Fayette County Tx Folks i need your help

    yeah i did that he was reported to the SO and to them. Texas Southwestern Cattlemen Ranger thats who i reported him to first i had my sister report him the the local SO in the county. that was the first thing i was asked if i had reported him to the SO in the county to incase someone called in a...
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    Fayette County Tx Folks i need your help

    well we got him back just turned him off the trailer about 2 hours ago. the person across the fence has his cattle fenced off from the creek. the water gaps was washed out he walked down the creek and went to the next place over. he was two places over but now he is back in Gonzales County Tx .
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    Fayette County Tx Folks i need your help

    its about 35 miles from the place he was on. i got a call from my Sister the SO called her about a bull that was dropped off at the sale barn in Flatonia Sunday eve. i took off went looked at the bull wasnt mine. talked to the Becks learned alot of who is around the place she has leased. i gave...
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    Fayette County Tx Folks i need your help

    they think he walked out a water gap that had been washed out. i havent been to the place. i was wanting them to locate the bull being they loaned him but looks like i will have to find him. i told them if they dont fix the water gap their cows will be wondering off. rule of thumb of mine check...
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    Fayette County Tx Folks i need your help

    i loaned a herford bull to my Sister that has a lease place near Flatonia Tx. the bull got out and she hasnt located the bull. next Sunday will be 3 weeks he been gone. she has talked to folks around the place and no one has seen the bull. the bull is a polled herford about 2 1/2 to 3 years old...
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    att. folks in Tx Oklahoma and Arkansas

    i received this in and e mail if it isnt BS yall may keep an eye out or you may know this person. Texas Department of State Health Services NEWS RELEASE April 19, 2010 Rabid Puppy Prompts Search The Texas Department of State Health Services and local officials are trying to locate a...
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    hay traders

    folks i guess you could say this stuff is commical. this is what i seen a couple of days ago but it goes on daily down this way somewheres. i saw a couple of 18 wheelers loaded with some 3x3x8 bales of hay. i looked at the hay you could pull a hand full of brooms weeds out any of the bales. the...
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    Anyone in the dry areas of TX need hay

    round bales are from 60 to 100 a roll. small squares are from 7.50 to 10 for grass hay. small bales of alfalfa starts at 10. the freight is what is a killer on most hay most want 2.50 per mile. if you buy the hay for 30 dollars its gonna cost 72.50 a bale. there is alot of junk hay showing up...
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    A confused Dog Catcher

    City employee accused of stealing cattle 05:43 PM CDT on Friday, August 14, 2009 KVUE News A City of Austin animal protection officer has been charged with stealing cattle. The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association says Robert Scott Kollman admitted to stealing the six calves...
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    stupid morons

    i got a gripe! all these factories putting these vehicles together how come they always send the ones with deffective blinkers to Tx? i dont know how many times i have been going down the road and someone just turns never useing a blinker. or the number of times someone zips around me doing 90...
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