randiliana
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;-) Not in a bad way!! My guy will push any cow I need him to. Works really well in the stockyards. A
Anyways, the reason for this post is a bit of a story. Saturday, after dragging several calves in from the big pasture (80 acres). And since it didn't look like we would get the heavies sorted off again for at least a couple more days I figured I would go get in a few of the heaviest looking cows. This is Chance's favorite work, sorting and bringing in single cows. The first 4 really weren't much fun for him, or much work lol, the one never even broke out of a walk ;-) . But, #5 made up for all of them. She decided she was going north (opposite way from where I wanted her) and, that was all there was to it. She WAS NOT going south no way, no how. Started out with a gallop, and man can SHE run. Not that Chance had a hard time keeping up with her, but she wasn't stopping for much. Finally got ahead of her, and she stopped...... for about a second, just long enough to change directions, and she was off again. Of course, it doesn't take too long to wear the run off a heavy bred cow. But then, she just stopped. Tried pushing her around, kicked her, smacked her with the reins, but nothing was going to make her go south!! And, every chance she got she would duck under the horses neck, and off she would go. Took about 20 minutes to convince her she was not going to go south. I almost came off once, she ducked out, Chance spun after her and weeelll, you get the picture. I used muscles I didn't know I had, but I did stay on. Finally got her kinda turned around, and we sidepassed the 1/2 mile up to the corral, him pushing in on her neck, to make her at least head in somewhat the correct direction. By this time, at least she was too tired to really try and duck out again. Finally got her to within about 20 feet of the gate, and THEN she went on the fight. Now, Chance isn't stupid, but he will out bluff a cow if I ask him to, and after a couple of charges, when we didn't back down she finally decided the gate was maybe a good idea. Never seen such a determined stubborn cow. She still looks a little PO'ed, but at least she didn't run down and crawl the fence back out.
Man I love that horse. He was a hard one to break, but now he is 9 and he has finally settled some. I can just about do anything cow wise off him.
Anyways, the reason for this post is a bit of a story. Saturday, after dragging several calves in from the big pasture (80 acres). And since it didn't look like we would get the heavies sorted off again for at least a couple more days I figured I would go get in a few of the heaviest looking cows. This is Chance's favorite work, sorting and bringing in single cows. The first 4 really weren't much fun for him, or much work lol, the one never even broke out of a walk ;-) . But, #5 made up for all of them. She decided she was going north (opposite way from where I wanted her) and, that was all there was to it. She WAS NOT going south no way, no how. Started out with a gallop, and man can SHE run. Not that Chance had a hard time keeping up with her, but she wasn't stopping for much. Finally got ahead of her, and she stopped...... for about a second, just long enough to change directions, and she was off again. Of course, it doesn't take too long to wear the run off a heavy bred cow. But then, she just stopped. Tried pushing her around, kicked her, smacked her with the reins, but nothing was going to make her go south!! And, every chance she got she would duck under the horses neck, and off she would go. Took about 20 minutes to convince her she was not going to go south. I almost came off once, she ducked out, Chance spun after her and weeelll, you get the picture. I used muscles I didn't know I had, but I did stay on. Finally got her kinda turned around, and we sidepassed the 1/2 mile up to the corral, him pushing in on her neck, to make her at least head in somewhat the correct direction. By this time, at least she was too tired to really try and duck out again. Finally got her to within about 20 feet of the gate, and THEN she went on the fight. Now, Chance isn't stupid, but he will out bluff a cow if I ask him to, and after a couple of charges, when we didn't back down she finally decided the gate was maybe a good idea. Never seen such a determined stubborn cow. She still looks a little PO'ed, but at least she didn't run down and crawl the fence back out.
Man I love that horse. He was a hard one to break, but now he is 9 and he has finally settled some. I can just about do anything cow wise off him.
