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<blockquote data-quote="Idaman" data-source="post: 752212" data-attributes="member: 14119"><p>3waycross - Your post really intrigues me as my early ranching was at 7500 feet near Westciffe, Colorado and we are now trying to buy a ranch in SE Colorado. There was a story back in those days about a ranch in South Park, Colorado that assembled a herd of cows that were 1/2 raised at Gunnison, Colo. and 1/2 raised in the Texas Panhandle. When the cowboys went to feed every morning the Gunnison cows were waiting at the gate and the Texas cows were high on the hills in whatever grass there was sticking out of the snow. Of course when the feeding began the Gunnison cows were ready and cleaned up the hay almost as fast as it fell off the truck and it was absolutely all gone before the Texas realized what was happening. We always joked that a Gunison cow really knew what to do with a bale of hay. Worse than a baler.</p><p></p><p>My great granddad and grandad had their hay bases at Westciffe but ranged cattle as far east as Pueblo. They and the Beckwith Ranch had a roundup every spring that ranged down toward Pueblo where they hazed the Westcliffe cattle back towards the miountains. There was a great story from one of those roundups about the chuckwagon cook who fed the "boys" a tomcat because they hadn't killed a beef. Needless to say a fresh beef was the that evening.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Idaman, post: 752212, member: 14119"] 3waycross - Your post really intrigues me as my early ranching was at 7500 feet near Westciffe, Colorado and we are now trying to buy a ranch in SE Colorado. There was a story back in those days about a ranch in South Park, Colorado that assembled a herd of cows that were 1/2 raised at Gunnison, Colo. and 1/2 raised in the Texas Panhandle. When the cowboys went to feed every morning the Gunnison cows were waiting at the gate and the Texas cows were high on the hills in whatever grass there was sticking out of the snow. Of course when the feeding began the Gunnison cows were ready and cleaned up the hay almost as fast as it fell off the truck and it was absolutely all gone before the Texas realized what was happening. We always joked that a Gunison cow really knew what to do with a bale of hay. Worse than a baler. My great granddad and grandad had their hay bases at Westciffe but ranged cattle as far east as Pueblo. They and the Beckwith Ranch had a roundup every spring that ranged down toward Pueblo where they hazed the Westcliffe cattle back towards the miountains. There was a great story from one of those roundups about the chuckwagon cook who fed the "boys" a tomcat because they hadn't killed a beef. Needless to say a fresh beef was the that evening. [/QUOTE]
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