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<blockquote data-quote="baleflipper" data-source="post: 1002938" data-attributes="member: 16896"><p>I read all the posts on this thread so far. All I can think is there would be very few cattle raisers today if we still had the screw worm flies. In those days you rode and checked a pasture every day to check for animals with the screw worms.Pastures here are thick mesquite brush. Every Day after the last frost until the onset of winter pastures had to be ridden and cattle doctored. No one dehorned ,branded or castrated until after frost killed the screw worm flies. Cattle still got cuts from barbed wire and each others horns,baby calves had to be caught and navels doctored with pinetar and screw worm meds. My father owned 20 using horses,he had 3 hired hands that rode daily.He and I rode daily also. We still found dead cattle. Typical day we loaded 4 horses for the two of us. We rode one each until noon then swapped for fresh ones. We took 4 dogs with us also,two stayed in trailer in the morning the other two were swapped at noon when we changed horses.We seldom ate lunch,Pop said get a drink of water and keep riding,lunch is a modern habit.</p><p> Many bigger operators only saw their cattle 3 or 4 times a year. The rest of the year the hired help saw to the cattle. In my opinion cattle ranching in this area is gone,we are now all stock farmers.We plant crops for the cattle to eat ,wheat in winter hay grazer in summer and improved Bermuda grass pastures. we now drive 4 wheelers and pen cows with feed sacks. Things have changed.</p><p> Every area is a bit different,to each his own.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="baleflipper, post: 1002938, member: 16896"] I read all the posts on this thread so far. All I can think is there would be very few cattle raisers today if we still had the screw worm flies. In those days you rode and checked a pasture every day to check for animals with the screw worms.Pastures here are thick mesquite brush. Every Day after the last frost until the onset of winter pastures had to be ridden and cattle doctored. No one dehorned ,branded or castrated until after frost killed the screw worm flies. Cattle still got cuts from barbed wire and each others horns,baby calves had to be caught and navels doctored with pinetar and screw worm meds. My father owned 20 using horses,he had 3 hired hands that rode daily.He and I rode daily also. We still found dead cattle. Typical day we loaded 4 horses for the two of us. We rode one each until noon then swapped for fresh ones. We took 4 dogs with us also,two stayed in trailer in the morning the other two were swapped at noon when we changed horses.We seldom ate lunch,Pop said get a drink of water and keep riding,lunch is a modern habit. Many bigger operators only saw their cattle 3 or 4 times a year. The rest of the year the hired help saw to the cattle. In my opinion cattle ranching in this area is gone,we are now all stock farmers.We plant crops for the cattle to eat ,wheat in winter hay grazer in summer and improved Bermuda grass pastures. we now drive 4 wheelers and pen cows with feed sacks. Things have changed. Every area is a bit different,to each his own. [/QUOTE]
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