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<blockquote data-quote="ranchmom77" data-source="post: 988009" data-attributes="member: 18971"><p>Our girls stay until they end up dry in the fall or until they can't get around as good as they used to. We trail over 15 miles in some cases to summer pasture and she has to be able to keep up. As long as they are healthy, raise a good calf, and don't get onery they can stay. </p><p>We ship our bulls around 6 or 7 years old, and are considering doing it sooner. The older they get, the onerier they get. Once they get it figured out that they don't have to do what you want them to do, its all downhill from there. We haul them off pasture in the summer, but have to trail them to the corrals to load them and the old ones are just jerks. The younger ones move along just fine but those older ones will run off, run through fences, charge your horse, fight with the dog, etc.. We don't need that. </p><p>I came pretty close to getting hit last summer and I swear if I'da had a gun I would have put a bullet right between his eyes. I was happy to see him go. They don't respect the fences, the horses, nothing... and if they go you can't stop them. I like the younger guys. Much nicer to deal with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ranchmom77, post: 988009, member: 18971"] Our girls stay until they end up dry in the fall or until they can't get around as good as they used to. We trail over 15 miles in some cases to summer pasture and she has to be able to keep up. As long as they are healthy, raise a good calf, and don't get onery they can stay. We ship our bulls around 6 or 7 years old, and are considering doing it sooner. The older they get, the onerier they get. Once they get it figured out that they don't have to do what you want them to do, its all downhill from there. We haul them off pasture in the summer, but have to trail them to the corrals to load them and the old ones are just jerks. The younger ones move along just fine but those older ones will run off, run through fences, charge your horse, fight with the dog, etc.. We don't need that. I came pretty close to getting hit last summer and I swear if I'da had a gun I would have put a bullet right between his eyes. I was happy to see him go. They don't respect the fences, the horses, nothing... and if they go you can't stop them. I like the younger guys. Much nicer to deal with. [/QUOTE]
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