Rogue Heifer

[CowboyRam]

I bought a bull this spring that was ape **** crazy, and two times as nasty. I picked him up in Sundance Wyoming, transferred him into my trailer, and I stepped up on the trailer to see what I had just bought; he went nuts in there. I didn't think much of it and thought he will settle down once I get home with him. I put him the the corral and went out the next morning to brand him; he wanted to take me, so called the breeder up and informed him I could not have a bull like this. If dad got in corral with him he would never walk out of it. Took him back to the breeder and that bull walked into the other trailer like nothing had ever happened; I guess he knew he was going home.

 

[Ky hills]

At 750 lbs she'd bring $1500 at a sale, if she is a beef type heifer. If she were local to me, we'd charge $250 to catch her, so I would guess others there local would be about the same. But, if she is just 750 feet from a processor, I would just shoot her and drag her, use a front end loader, a roll-back if you know someone that has one, and carry her over there.

That's what we paid once to get a young man to cowboy a neighbors crazy Jersey bull. This summer she had another one and we asked around and somebody recommended another young man. He quoted $500 to catch and load, She found somebody else through a stockyards.

 

[Dave]

That's what we paid once to get a young man to cowboy a neighbors crazy Jersey bull. This summer she had another one and we asked around and somebody recommended another young man. He quoted $500 to catch and load, She found somebody else through a stockyards.

Here you can hire real handy day workers for $150-$200 a day. I have some neighbors who would come and do it for free. One of the reasons we rope and drag to the fire at brandings is to keep horses and people use to roping. Something a lot of people here wouldn't understand but I have seen these guys rope and knock down a big cow at a branding to doctor her. A couple guys on horses rope her and half a dozen guys on foot getting her tipped over and held down When there is a squeeze chute a couple hundred feet away. I asked why not just run her through the chute? The reply was what fun would that be. They have a point. They put hundreds of cows down the chute and that is just doing work.

 

[Warren Allison]

That's what we paid once to get a young man to cowboy a neighbors crazy Jersey bull. This summer she had another one and we asked around and somebody recommended another young man. He quoted $500 to catch and load, She found somebody else through a stockyards.

$250 locally is about about right or a situation like Clinch's, where you ain't going behind other people that tried to catch one, chasing it with 4 wheelers, motorcycles, dogs etc. There have been some I wouldn't do for $500, and a few for no amount of money!!

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

And here you won't find a cowboy within hundreds and hundreds of miles that will come catch a cow.

There was a loose cow here that took 3 years before she settled into someone's herd enough that she made it into their corral and was caught.