MudHog
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@Bigfoot: My preference would be to not drag it. Just last year I was the one telling my grandfather that I don't like dragging and they are worth more alive than dead. I'm just at the point now if she dies being drug, then I'll skin her. She will already go to the freezer if she manages to get out of the round pen I'm borrowing to try and catch her. I've been around our cows for 34 years, but only in the last 8 years I've started taking over. My grandfather never was one to ask for help even though I lived two houses down, so I never got to see him actually pull a calf or cow in. He's 93 and needs a wheelchair to really get around, so I'm going in on my own. Hay and water in the trailer is what I've planned to do if I did manage to catch her on a Saturday. I'm going to call the Sale Barn. Tranq would be much easier than damaging more fence and a round pen I'm borrowing now.
@greybeard: I know a few people that rope, but its to get them here. The guys I'm borrowing the round pen is a roper and does team roping practices at his place. Nobody wants to mess with this heifer. He told me more for her size (about 400 lbs) than anything. I was at the Ranch Sorting competition Sunday and the guy helping me asked a couple other guys and they turned it down too. The bad part is my fences aren't good for this kind of calf. Our cows and bull know their area, but no way they will stop a calf. Like Bigfoot said, I'm managing with what I have. I've tried penning her under our barn and she managed to get out (jumped against a panel and broke a rope and lifted the panel up on another time). I've tried putting her in our garden and she managed to get out there (walked through the barbed wire fence).
Now you all can see why I'm on the verge of pulling her or putting her in the freezer in general. Amazing one calf turns into a full on rodeo, but I guess that's how it goes.
@greybeard: I know a few people that rope, but its to get them here. The guys I'm borrowing the round pen is a roper and does team roping practices at his place. Nobody wants to mess with this heifer. He told me more for her size (about 400 lbs) than anything. I was at the Ranch Sorting competition Sunday and the guy helping me asked a couple other guys and they turned it down too. The bad part is my fences aren't good for this kind of calf. Our cows and bull know their area, but no way they will stop a calf. Like Bigfoot said, I'm managing with what I have. I've tried penning her under our barn and she managed to get out (jumped against a panel and broke a rope and lifted the panel up on another time). I've tried putting her in our garden and she managed to get out there (walked through the barbed wire fence).
Now you all can see why I'm on the verge of pulling her or putting her in the freezer in general. Amazing one calf turns into a full on rodeo, but I guess that's how it goes.