Cattle drive!

[MurraysMutts]

Yeeeeehawww!
Hot wire ain't working so good, it's sooo dry!

Dang my legs are long! Who drives cattle while drinking the morning coffee?
Git 'er dun 'ol son!

I guess it twernt really driving. More like meandering.....

 

[SBMF 2015]

Not on the highway. That's a "relaxing" cattle drive. I'm betting your calves fallow better than drive.

 

[50/50Farms]

They'll all follow a bucket of feed. Metal buckets seem to get 'em the best. Unless you're doing all grass, and then I guess you can just tow a mobile salad bar behind the truck to get them excited.

 

[Lee VanRoss]

RE electric fence, Try some water on the ground rods and check connections, you're welcome!

 

[50/50Farms]

I keep wondering if this whole thing with so many folks going over to all-electric mobile fences is a fad or not. I've watched every Greg Judy video on it but it looks like he still uses perimeter fences as well.

 

[Lee VanRoss]

I keep wondering if this whole thing with so many folks going over to all-electric mobile fences is a fad or not. I've watched every Greg Judy video on it but it looks like he still uses perimeter fences as well.

"Perimeter" is the operative word. With a good perimeter one can design any mosaic desired for the length of time needed.
Internal permanent fences for the most part are not economically viable and can be restrictive to desired movement of resources.

 

[50/50Farms]

"Perimeter" is the operative word. With a good perimeter one can design any mosaic desired for the length of time needed.
Internal permanent fences for the most part are not economically viable and can be restrictive to desired movement of resources.

I would posit the idea that if you're fencing from scratch or improving a fenced area that has delapidated, you can just cross-fence by section size and forget about it and just open a gate and whoop every few days. My original conundrum was that I've met folks who *only* use electric rope fence.

 

[Lee VanRoss]

I understand. I have met a ''miracle worker'' or two myself!

 

[Dave]

Sorry doesn't qualify as a cattle drive for several reasons.
A. The cattle are all still behind a fence.
B. Not enough total head to qualify.
C. You appear to be afoot. An official cattle drive someone needs to be horseback.
D. Was your coffee made over an open fire by a cook named Wishbone?

Have you never watched reruns of Rawhide? A John Wayne movie?

For your educational purposes I have attached several pictures of cattle drive that occurred recently in my neighborhood. These are all separate drives of different cattle and different owners. I used the last two pictures as they show the people horseback which qualifies them as official cattle drives.

1. This is 250 pairs going up the road. This is thee lead end of the herd all the cowboys are at the tail end of the herd. This the first day of a 3 day drive. It happens twice every spring with 250 pairs each time.
2. I have the only bridge on the river. The river is too high for young calves to cross in the spring so a neighbor drives 150 pairs 2 miles up the road, down my driveway to cross the bridge, and up the hill a mile to his range land.
3. This is 150 fall calvers that again utilized my bridge to cross the river on their way to where they were going.

 

[50/50Farms]

Corry doesn't qualify as a cattle drive for several reasons.
A. The cattle are all still behind a fence.
B. Not enough total head to qualify.
C. You appear to be afoot. An official cattle drive someone needs to be horseback.
D. Was your coffee made over an open fire by a cook named Wishbone?

Have you never watched reruns of Rawhide? A John Wayne movie?

For your educational purposes I have attached several pictures of cattle drive that occurred recently in my neighborhood. These are all separate drives of different cattle and different owners. I used the last two pictures as they show the people horseback which qualifies them as official cattle drives.

1. This is 250 pairs going up the road. This is thee lead end of the herd all the cowboys are at the tail end of the herd. This the first day of a 3 day drive. It happens twice every spring with 250 pairs each time.
2. I have the only bridge on the river. The river is too high for young calves to cross in the spring so a neighbor drives 150 pairs 2 miles up the road, down my driveway to cross the bridge, and up the hill a mile to his range land.
3. This is 150 fall calvers that again utilized my bridge to cross the river on their way to where they were going.

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If we wanted to be coy, the original drives were to take a herd to market so the only real drovers left are the CDL guys.

 

[TCRanch]

I've never had good luck with electric fences, but I think it has a lot to do with what your cattle are used to. As a general rule, my cattle don't get out - even if a fence is down from a falling tree, deer taking it out, etc. When the oil company was drilling the first well, they installed electric fence around the entire perimeter, even included flags, and it didn't do squat. Either a calf would go under or a cow would completely ignore it & barrel through. They eventually set up portable panels. Lesson learned. And my neighbors bull has little regard for the electric fence that's 3' inside the barbed fence row. Pretty sad when even he follows me with a bucket.

 

[Dave]

If we wanted to be coy, the original drives were to take a herd to market so the only real drovers left are the CDL guys.

Not all the drives were to take cattle to market. Cattle driven up to Montana were taken there to fatten up on the grass. Here in the spring and fall it is not at all unusual to see large herds of cattle being driven down the road by people horseback. There has been two times on Sunday mornings on our way to church we pull off the freeway and meet several hundred cows coming over the freeway over pass. These cows would have came down a main road on the edge of town. Passing right in front of the hospital, 3 big churches, a housing development, a trailer park, several big retail stores, a couple state offices, crossing a main RR line, and a 60 mph highway where the cows would have run the stop sign.

But I do see cattle pots with sign on the trailer that says "cattle drive". I don't know if that is the brand of the trailer or the significance.

 

[50/50Farms]

Not all the drives were to take cattle to market. Cattle driven up to Montana were taken there to fatten up on the grass. Here in the spring and fall it is not at all unusual to see large herds of cattle being driven down the road by people horseback. There has been two times on Sunday mornings on our way to church we pull off the freeway and meet several hundred cows coming over the freeway over pass. These cows would have came down a main road on the edge of town. Passing right in front of the hospital, 3 big churches, a housing development, a trailer park, several big retail stores, a couple state offices, crossing a main RR line, and a 60 mph highway where the cows would have run the stop sign.

But I do see cattle pots with sign on the trailer that says "cattle drive". I don't know if that is the brand of the trailer or the significance.

Never said all of, just being cheeky.

 

[MurraysMutts]

RE electric fence, Try some water on the ground rods and check connections, you're welcome!

This is how NOT to do it...
That's a proper grounding system no?

Notice the T-post is used as well!

 

[MurraysMutts]

Sorry doesn't qualify as a cattle drive for several reasons.
A. The cattle are all still behind a fence.
B. Not enough total head to qualify.
C. You appear to be afoot. An official cattle drive someone needs to be horseback.
D. Was your coffee made over an open fire by a cook named Wishbone?

Have you never watched reruns of Rawhide? A John Wayne movie?

For your educational purposes I have attached several pictures of cattle drive that occurred recently in my neighborhood. These are all separate drives of different cattle and different owners. I used the last two pictures as they show the people horseback which qualifies them as official cattle drives.

1. This is 250 pairs going up the road. This is thee lead end of the herd all the cowboys are at the tail end of the herd. This the first day of a 3 day drive. It happens twice every spring with 250 pairs each time.
2. I have the only bridge on the river. The river is too high for young calves to cross in the spring so a neighbor drives 150 pairs 2 miles up the road, down my driveway to cross the bridge, and up the hill a mile to his range land.
3. This is 150 fall calvers that again utilized my bridge to cross the river on their way to where they were going.

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A. Actually they were not contained by any fence.
B. How many I need to qualify? I had like 8 of em out again tonight.
C. I have a 4 wheeler! But we weren't going far...
D. Mr. Coffee made it.


Loved that @Dave
Thanks! Been a long day my friend.

 

[Dave]

A. Actually they were not contained by any fence.
B. How many I need to qualify? I had like 8 of em out again tonight.
C. I have a 4 wheeler! But we weren't going far...
D. Mr. Coffee made it.


Loved that @Dave
Thanks! Been a long day my friend.

A. My bad I thought I saw a fence or at least part of one.
B. I would say 100 head give or take a few. I could have posted a picture of 41 pairs coming to my corral to brand the calves. You can see the horseback cowboys better in the picture but I didn't figure there was enough cattle and they weren't being moved far enough to qualify as a cattle drive.
C. I have a 4 wheeler too. But do you ever see them being used on Rawhide or by John Wayne? Of course not they used horses. Horses are needed to make it an "official"cattle drive.
D. I never said that Wishbone's coffee was any good. In fact I bet it was terrible. But that is the point all food and drink on a cattle drive is not fit for human consumption. Why do you think they couldn't wait to get to town so they could get drunk on rot gut whiskey. Got to do something to get the taste out of their mouth.

 

[Dave]

Never said all of, just being cheeky.

No biggie, just having fun here.

 

[Lee VanRoss]

This is how NOT to do it...
That's a proper grounding system no?
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Notice the T-post is used as well!

Good Grief!

 

[Mulemanmike]

Yeeeeehawww!
Hot wire ain't working so good, it's sooo dry!
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Dang my legs are long! Who drives cattle while drinking the morning coffee?
Git 'er dun 'ol son!
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I guess it twernt really driving. More like meandering.....

pour water around your ground for the electric fence

 

[sstterry]

This is how NOT to do it...
That's a proper grounding system no?

Notice the T-post is used as well!

I have a portable 12v energizer I am using as a temporary fence over a creek. I have the ground attached to a 1/2 steel cable (supported the old water gap) that is grown into a tree and then sits at the bottom of the creek for about 15' downstream. I don't think you can get much of a better ground than that. You can sure hear it pop when a calf touches it!