One of those days

[cypressfarms]

I've been having a cow that I've been wanting to bring to the sale barn since May when she climbed/jumped out of the catch pen when we were working all the cows. She's been a decent cow (4 years old), but I cull big time for disposition and climbing is not a skill I would like her to show the other cows about.

I borrowed the vet's dart pistol. Shot her with 3cc's of xylazine, and waited about 30 minutes for it to take affect. This cow did not want to go down. After another 30 minutes, I called my vet, and shot her with another 1cc. After another 30 minutes she laid down. We walked up to her to rope her. She got up, busted through one fence and then through a gate. After another hour we shot her with 3cc's again. She went down hard then. Put panels around her, backed the trailer up to her, and had one man triple loop a rope through the trailer to her. I then gave her 1cc of tolazoline to wake her. She jumped up, went for the guy holding the rope (who immediately let go of the rope), and she then headed over the panels and through two more fences.

Exhausted, I called the next door neighbor, to see if he had his horse available. No luck. He did show up to help, though. He asked why I was selling her. After I told him about her climbing and breaking habits, he offered to buy her. When he offered me $100 more than I thought I would get at the salebarn, I had to say yes. He's coming back tomorrow with a couple of friends and some stout horses.

I still can't figure out if this was a good day or bad.....

 

[Running Arrow Bill]

Ouch!

Definitely a good day if someone willing to take this cow off your hands for more than sale barn price! You're lucky to get rid of her!

Attitude problems are a no brainer...2 or 4 legged critters...lol.

 

[Caustic Burno]

You have more paitence than I do. She would have loaded or, I would have downed her and not with a dart gun, we would be cuttin and wrappin that gal.

 

[Hippie Rancher]

:lol: :lol: :lol:


Does the guy want some more like that? I have a few (long story) I need some of those drugs (not sure if for me or the rank ones but still....)

 

[cypressfarms]

Caustic,

I have to say that the thought of wrapping her up did cross my mind.

When I asked my next door neighbor what he was going to do with her, he said that he had a group of "wild" cows that he would run her with. I've got to remember to NOT volunteer to help when he works those :lol:

 

[sidney411]

If it's your next door neighbor then you migh still have to deal with her if she want's back in with her 'old' herd no fence in going to stop her it sounds like. I sure don't see why anyone would want to buy such a cow knowing her history, what does this guy do?

 

[Howdyjabo]

Sometimes it ends up being cheaper to shoot nut cases instead of taking them to the stockyard.
Case in point my neighbor-- had a heffer that was nuts. It took two weeks to finally get her to the stock yard- and it only ended up costing him $5000. She tore up the catch pen twice; ripped the gate off a trailer; and broke the guys leg.

When you trank an animal--you have to make sure that the animal is not excited. The blood pumping moves it thru the system too fast to take hold. Also tranking when its hot is really hard on an animal- you can loose them.

 

[dun]

Bought a heifer that turned out to be a nut case. Took 6 darts in an hour to slow her down enough that we could finally chase her (backwards) into the trailer. Took her straight to the salebarn. Spent 2 days welding up everything in the trialer she had managed to break. When she went through ring, the bidding was at best rather slow. She tried climbing into the auctioneers lap, the ring man went out to chase her off, she flipped him over the outside of the pen and the bidding went crazy. Ended up making a profit on the goofy...........

dun

 

[sidney411]

Why would someone bid on such a crazy animal? I just don't understand.

 

[SPRINGER FARMS MURRAY GRE]

Must be limi/herfs! :lol: :cboy: :shock:

 

[dun]

Why would someone bid on such a crazy animal? I just don't understand.

The story I was told was that the guy that bought it gave it to the ringman as a gift. That's the only hting that makes any sense to me. Don;t care. Within a day everyone had calmed down and the pasture was peacefull again.

dun

 

[cypressfarms]

If it's your next door neighbor then you migh still have to deal with her if she want's back in with her 'old' herd no fence in going to stop her it sounds like. I sure don't see why anyone would want to buy such a cow knowing her history, what does this guy do?

That's why I asked him what he was planning on doing with her. He leases land in several places, and one of them is where he keeps his "wild ones". Luckily, they are far away from me. His calm cows are next to mine.

He is a full time rancher, and bales hay for profit, has pecan picking equipment,etc. He's a younger guy, maybe 25 or so, and he and his buddies all get on their horses and have "fun" working these crazies. I couldn't do it. I do know that the cow I have has nice calves, but I just can't put up with the disposition anymore.


By the way, she's a Brangus.

 

[L Weir]

Why would someone bid on such a crazy animal? I just don't understand.

I don't understand that either. I went to a farm production sale one time and the crazy ones brought the most money.

 

[got_cows?]

Nut cases breed nut cases. The only good place for one is in the freezer.

 

[cfpinz]

Ever notice the crazy ones never have health problems, never have calving trouble...? They're too mean to get sick. At least that's my experience with the nutjobs I've owned. I'm down to a couple now and they are in the short pasture, next trip will be their last.

cfpinz

 

[flaboy-]

I have nut case also. I was trying to separate a cow I was culling because she didn't calve in 18 months. I was down to the two (crazy and cull). Crazy charged me 6 times even after I beat her over the nose with a stick. The first five times I side stepped her then realized my luck might run out so I opened the head catch of the squeeze chute so I could step in. She came after me again and I stepped in and she ran into the pipes on squeeze. She decided to leave the pen after that. That leaves me with just the cull. She goes crazy and comes after me too. She had never done that in the 7 years I had her.

If old crazy hadn't had a nice calf on her she would have been tits up or on the trailer with the other one that day. I look forward to loading her up in about a month.

 

[cypressfarms]

Ever notice the crazy ones never have health problems, never have calving trouble...? They're too mean to get sick. At least that's my experience with the nutjobs I've owned.
cfpinz

Cf,

Your right about this one; this brangus girl hasn't had any shots and nothing but grass, hay and minerals for the last year and a half. Last year was when she came un-glued. We got the bright idea to let a neighbor's cattle dogs move the cows. Well this girl still has the scars to show it. We called her "bad ear" because most of her left ear was chewed off.

 

[msscamp]

Why would someone bid on such a crazy animal? I just don't understand.

I don't understand that either. I went to a farm production sale one time and the crazy ones brought the most money.

Well, that makes 3 of us. Why would anyone want troublemakers when there are so many calm, nice dispositioned cows out there? :???: Maybe they are perfecting their fencing/repairing techniques?

 

[Hippie Rancher]

Its those young guys - they like to rodeo and fancy they can make a few bucks on the ones the rest of us can't handle. :cboy: :lol:


I don't know if I agree 100% with it being all genetics - I have seen too many goofy out of gentle stuff and gentle out of goofy stuff. Another reason folks keep 'em (at least around here) is they may be acclimated to the country and that nice gentle bought cow is gonna have real problems making a living on your particular rock pile.