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<blockquote data-quote="Florida cattle" data-source="post: 515869" data-attributes="member: 7378"><p>This one happened a few years back.</p><p>Bought 14 head of cow/calf pairs and heavy bred cows at the sale barn. Brought them home that evening and dropped them in the corral with feed and water for overnight observation and so I could worm and vacinate them the next day. Next morning all calves and cows are paired up all match (good) all cows are calm and easy going. Time for the meds so we run them throught the chute and a limo/char X with a 300 lbs. calf starts acting up. I think okay she will calm down when I turn them into the 8 acre pasture I use as quarantine on any new stuff I bring in. Open the corral gate and she blows out wide open and never slows down, thru the fence, down the drive and on the road with all the other cows and calves right behind her. The chase is on!</p><p></p><p>We get them in my hay field down the road, gonna work them thru a gate to my sister and brother-in-laws place to thier catch pen. Crazy fool breaks and runs w' the calf thru the fence at the hayfield and goes across the road thru the neighbors fence into his pasture. (lucky his cows were off in one of his back pastures) We were able to hold the group and get them in the pen. Now time to go after the nut job. Find her with the horses and guess what, she runs. We don't chase her but when we get near and she sees us she runs. Finally she runs into a swamp at the edge of the neighbors property and the calf goes thru the fence and runs down the dirt road to the highway and the guy working for me takes off and catches up drops the rope, piggen string, calf caught.</p><p></p><p>The cow is now 50 yards into the swamp in 4' of water in a thick black gum/cypress swamp, horses no use, time to go a wadin'. Drop a rope on the cow and dally off to a small black gum and she falls and sulls, her head goes under water. I think she would of drowned if I hadn't pulled her head out of water. Now to get her out of the swamp we fix a halter on her and tie some lariats together to pull her out with the horses. We pull a few feet and then i pull her head out of the water so she can catch her breath then we pull again. By this time we see leaches all over the cow, just great when you are standing in water waist deep. We finally get her on land and all of a sudden she stands up and starts fighting luckly we had already dropped another rope on her and she was stuck between 2 horses. We get the trailer close and we are able to pull her in finally.</p><p></p><p>Needless to say she went straight back to the corral and then back to the salebarn after her barbwire wounds had healed. all the happened in about 3 hours and the rest of the day was spent repairing all the fence.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Florida cattle, post: 515869, member: 7378"] This one happened a few years back. Bought 14 head of cow/calf pairs and heavy bred cows at the sale barn. Brought them home that evening and dropped them in the corral with feed and water for overnight observation and so I could worm and vacinate them the next day. Next morning all calves and cows are paired up all match (good) all cows are calm and easy going. Time for the meds so we run them throught the chute and a limo/char X with a 300 lbs. calf starts acting up. I think okay she will calm down when I turn them into the 8 acre pasture I use as quarantine on any new stuff I bring in. Open the corral gate and she blows out wide open and never slows down, thru the fence, down the drive and on the road with all the other cows and calves right behind her. The chase is on! We get them in my hay field down the road, gonna work them thru a gate to my sister and brother-in-laws place to thier catch pen. Crazy fool breaks and runs w' the calf thru the fence at the hayfield and goes across the road thru the neighbors fence into his pasture. (lucky his cows were off in one of his back pastures) We were able to hold the group and get them in the pen. Now time to go after the nut job. Find her with the horses and guess what, she runs. We don't chase her but when we get near and she sees us she runs. Finally she runs into a swamp at the edge of the neighbors property and the calf goes thru the fence and runs down the dirt road to the highway and the guy working for me takes off and catches up drops the rope, piggen string, calf caught. The cow is now 50 yards into the swamp in 4' of water in a thick black gum/cypress swamp, horses no use, time to go a wadin'. Drop a rope on the cow and dally off to a small black gum and she falls and sulls, her head goes under water. I think she would of drowned if I hadn't pulled her head out of water. Now to get her out of the swamp we fix a halter on her and tie some lariats together to pull her out with the horses. We pull a few feet and then i pull her head out of the water so she can catch her breath then we pull again. By this time we see leaches all over the cow, just great when you are standing in water waist deep. We finally get her on land and all of a sudden she stands up and starts fighting luckly we had already dropped another rope on her and she was stuck between 2 horses. We get the trailer close and we are able to pull her in finally. Needless to say she went straight back to the corral and then back to the salebarn after her barbwire wounds had healed. all the happened in about 3 hours and the rest of the day was spent repairing all the fence. [/QUOTE]
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