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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1831094" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>Quite the weekend down in south Ga. Friday night the man with those 8 LH x Corr cows with the Charolais calves, called me and wanted to bring the cows to me Saturday., He decided he would wean the calves now, and offered to bring the cows to me if I would go ahead and buy them. So I told him to bring them on. He was there by 8 AM with them, and Scott had him unload at the Kudzu field and put them in the corral there. He was gone by the time I got there. Next one to pull up was the man buying those 10 Jeresy/Plummer/Corriente mutt heifers and the 3/4ths MFB. I had to head him and drag him on the trailer. Those 10 heifers that were petting-zoo tame when we got them... we just opened the trailer gate and let them walk on. It was a cold morning with swirling, high winds. The kind of day that makes horses and cattle both a little bit cantankerous. Even the brokest horses will get a little fractious or spooky when the wind is blowing like that. They can't tell where smells and sounds are coming from. Next, the dude came to get the 4 black Corrs I had bought, and wanted to get the other three I had, too. The nearly white LH, the roan Corr I bought with the 4 blacks, and that solid tan one with the Braunvieh steer calf we were about to wean and start feeding out to put in Matties freezer. So I sold them too. Ran that calf on the trailer with those 7 cows, and asked him to pull across and down the road to the Kudzu place, so we could unload them in that corral and cut that calf out, then load them back up. When he saw those 8 the man just had brought he wanted to buy them too. I told him the same price as the others he had just bought, and that was $200 more per head than I had just paid for these 8. He said " let's load them!". So I headed the calf and drug it into the back section of the corral, that serves as the stripping pen when we'd team rope there. Then we loaded the 15 cows on the dude's trailer, and he left a happy camper. So, me and Clay rode back over to where we had caught the cattle that morning,. We had opened the gate between the dove field and the other 400 acres, but everything was still in the dove field pasture, eating on a roll of hay Scott and Zeke had put in there Thursday. I just rode up to Zeke's giant steer, dropped a loop around his neck, and we led him back over to the Kudzu place. He followed my horse like his mother, never even pulled the rope tight. All that is left on the 450 row crop pastures are the 22 Plummers and the Hereford/Guernsey nurse cow. We put Zeke's steer in the kudzu corral with that calf we just pulled off its mother. Scott and Zeke are going to just leave them here and feed them out til that 1/2 Braunveih steer is ready to butcher. Scott and Zeke have already got a ton of the feed made up, and stored in plastic barrels with about 250 lbs each in them. Zeke picks them up and sets them in a truck bed as easily as I can when they are empty. He is freakishly strong! It was getting close to noon, and the couple that bought Gail's calf were coming by about 4. We decided it was too windy for the bird dogs or beagles to do much good. so we moved 7 of those barrels of feed to the pole barn at the Kudzu field, and I got in the cab of the tractor, and showed Zeke how to pick up round bales with it. He learned how to do it instantly. We'd get one on the spear on the front loader, and get another on the 3 point hitch spear on back, and carry them 2 at a time. I put the 1st load in the pole barn my self, let Zeke do the 2nd and 3rd load, and when we got back to Scott's barn I just got out and let him move the rest by himself. </p><p></p><p>By the time he was finished ( or bored with moving hay with the tractor) it was a little past 3, so we decided to go to Scott's house to wash up and see if we could help his wife and Mattie finish up cooking. The couple had wanted us to meet them at a restaurant in Perry and buy us all supper, but Scott's ole lady would not hear of it! She wanted to cook for them and have them as guests. A little before 3:30 they called me and were already the truck stop, so I hauled ass over there to meet them and bring them back to Scott's.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1831094, member: 40587"] Quite the weekend down in south Ga. Friday night the man with those 8 LH x Corr cows with the Charolais calves, called me and wanted to bring the cows to me Saturday., He decided he would wean the calves now, and offered to bring the cows to me if I would go ahead and buy them. So I told him to bring them on. He was there by 8 AM with them, and Scott had him unload at the Kudzu field and put them in the corral there. He was gone by the time I got there. Next one to pull up was the man buying those 10 Jeresy/Plummer/Corriente mutt heifers and the 3/4ths MFB. I had to head him and drag him on the trailer. Those 10 heifers that were petting-zoo tame when we got them... we just opened the trailer gate and let them walk on. It was a cold morning with swirling, high winds. The kind of day that makes horses and cattle both a little bit cantankerous. Even the brokest horses will get a little fractious or spooky when the wind is blowing like that. They can't tell where smells and sounds are coming from. Next, the dude came to get the 4 black Corrs I had bought, and wanted to get the other three I had, too. The nearly white LH, the roan Corr I bought with the 4 blacks, and that solid tan one with the Braunvieh steer calf we were about to wean and start feeding out to put in Matties freezer. So I sold them too. Ran that calf on the trailer with those 7 cows, and asked him to pull across and down the road to the Kudzu place, so we could unload them in that corral and cut that calf out, then load them back up. When he saw those 8 the man just had brought he wanted to buy them too. I told him the same price as the others he had just bought, and that was $200 more per head than I had just paid for these 8. He said " let's load them!". So I headed the calf and drug it into the back section of the corral, that serves as the stripping pen when we'd team rope there. Then we loaded the 15 cows on the dude's trailer, and he left a happy camper. So, me and Clay rode back over to where we had caught the cattle that morning,. We had opened the gate between the dove field and the other 400 acres, but everything was still in the dove field pasture, eating on a roll of hay Scott and Zeke had put in there Thursday. I just rode up to Zeke's giant steer, dropped a loop around his neck, and we led him back over to the Kudzu place. He followed my horse like his mother, never even pulled the rope tight. All that is left on the 450 row crop pastures are the 22 Plummers and the Hereford/Guernsey nurse cow. We put Zeke's steer in the kudzu corral with that calf we just pulled off its mother. Scott and Zeke are going to just leave them here and feed them out til that 1/2 Braunveih steer is ready to butcher. Scott and Zeke have already got a ton of the feed made up, and stored in plastic barrels with about 250 lbs each in them. Zeke picks them up and sets them in a truck bed as easily as I can when they are empty. He is freakishly strong! It was getting close to noon, and the couple that bought Gail's calf were coming by about 4. We decided it was too windy for the bird dogs or beagles to do much good. so we moved 7 of those barrels of feed to the pole barn at the Kudzu field, and I got in the cab of the tractor, and showed Zeke how to pick up round bales with it. He learned how to do it instantly. We'd get one on the spear on the front loader, and get another on the 3 point hitch spear on back, and carry them 2 at a time. I put the 1st load in the pole barn my self, let Zeke do the 2nd and 3rd load, and when we got back to Scott's barn I just got out and let him move the rest by himself. By the time he was finished ( or bored with moving hay with the tractor) it was a little past 3, so we decided to go to Scott's house to wash up and see if we could help his wife and Mattie finish up cooking. The couple had wanted us to meet them at a restaurant in Perry and buy us all supper, but Scott's ole lady would not hear of it! She wanted to cook for them and have them as guests. A little before 3:30 they called me and were already the truck stop, so I hauled ass over there to meet them and bring them back to Scott's. [/QUOTE]
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