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<blockquote data-quote="pdfangus" data-source="post: 777500" data-attributes="member: 6543"><p>I always assumed that any cow out there was subject to killing me when I was tagging calves.</p><p></p><p>Ya never know when a calf might bawl and a totally unrelated cow might nail ya. A bawling calf could bring a half dozen cows at my place.</p><p></p><p>my cows were not wild or mean and a lot were scratch em in the field types but a bawling calf at calving time could get you hurt by accident.</p><p></p><p>I never turned my back on mama and tried to keep the calf between me and her. I caught em and got a foot rope on em and then let mama see they were all right. tied up three feet so i could turn loose and let her sniff while I got the tags and stuff ready. tagged and weighed using the foot rope to hang em up.</p><p></p><p>to hang em up I had two pieces of pipe that made a ten foot pole and always placed the pole on the ground toward mama and then lifted the calf with the pole. tried to keep the calf and the pole between mama and I. that and selection for disposition and being in the cows enough that they knew me as part of the herd. I have got thru the last 25 years without being bumped. I always had a plastic cow sorting stick 5 feet long with me just as insurance. some cows if you pop em with the stick can make em worse though. So it is something you use with discresion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pdfangus, post: 777500, member: 6543"] I always assumed that any cow out there was subject to killing me when I was tagging calves. Ya never know when a calf might bawl and a totally unrelated cow might nail ya. A bawling calf could bring a half dozen cows at my place. my cows were not wild or mean and a lot were scratch em in the field types but a bawling calf at calving time could get you hurt by accident. I never turned my back on mama and tried to keep the calf between me and her. I caught em and got a foot rope on em and then let mama see they were all right. tied up three feet so i could turn loose and let her sniff while I got the tags and stuff ready. tagged and weighed using the foot rope to hang em up. to hang em up I had two pieces of pipe that made a ten foot pole and always placed the pole on the ground toward mama and then lifted the calf with the pole. tried to keep the calf and the pole between mama and I. that and selection for disposition and being in the cows enough that they knew me as part of the herd. I have got thru the last 25 years without being bumped. I always had a plastic cow sorting stick 5 feet long with me just as insurance. some cows if you pop em with the stick can make em worse though. So it is something you use with discresion. [/QUOTE]
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