Being invested and defensive in your own point to the exclusion of understanding another person's point doesn't make you right.
I'm going to guess places called ranches will have pens and squeeze chutes.. We have several.
That (Ruining good animals for cash and prizes just never appealed to me... the same about some of this rodeo... show animal... stuff.) is a very good point. Certainly there is a line to be crossed for everyone reasonable... and all a matter of degrees. Do the benefits outweigh the risks? In some of these activities it would be difficult to determine and in the end is a judgment call that has to be made in the moment by those encountering the circumstances.
Rodeoing causes lots of injuries to cowboys too... but some say broken bones
And missing fingers. I know a few cowboys missing thumbs. I admire the work it takes, but, in reality, if you're wanting to show dedication on what you can do on a horse, there are many things other than the abusive act of calf roping.Rodeoing causes lots of injuries to cowboys too... but some say broken bones
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I have NEVER seen that. In fact I've heard yung'ens mumble too hot to take the horses out of the barn, but no reason not to send us out to the fields to weed.
There are many places on our ranch you cant see pens. We have though, pulled calves in the field. But, never ever have we had to chase a calf at full speed and rope it. The guy on this horse probably just threw the rope around this cows neck as she was standing, probably another rope going the other way. Otherwise i cant imagine the force to get this cow down unless she's weak or really sick. Just a few weeks ago, about as far as you can get from our corrals, i walked a sick cow to the corral without getting the herd up. She had pneumonia, ran her in the chute and gave her a shot. She's still in the sick pen, but tells me every time i go out she doesnt belong there anymore. So, if a rancher doesnt have corrals and you ger a sick cow that is weak, wont you find her stuck in a pond eventually. We always bring our sick cows to the corral where they drink out of a stock tank,.
On my uncles place there is now way you are going to walk a sick cow into the corrals. The one pasture is roughly 12,000 acres. If that cow is on the far end, you would have to trail her 15 miles to the corral.
So, what do you do to keep her from getting stuck in a pond beause they are sick, or getting too weak to go get a drink? I cant imagine just leaving a cow 'out' if she's sick i guess you just expect them to die then, why doctor them? You get a cow 12 miles from the corral, sick pen, whatever and she's got pneumonia, you rope and give a shot and them just leave them? Our where i live, a cow goes down away from humans, you wont find all of her the next day. lol
When we'd buy a horse for our kids, we loved finding a retired roping horse. You talk about bomb proof. We had several and they were all great companions and safe horses for our young kids.
