cross_7
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When I was a kid we were in the Texas Panhandle and we gathered Hereford cattle all summer and were shipping them.
That fall they shipped in Gerts and they were as wild as deer. I remember they were a dark red, horned cattle with lots of leather, as a kid all I had ever been around were Hereford or baldies and I thought the Gerts were the sorriest I had ever seen.
We'd pen them in the horse trap for a few days and feed them before we drove them out to pasture, but they ran through and tore up fences, tried to jump cattle guards and would fight if pressured.
I remember we had a bad ice/snow storm and we were out on the feed truck hauling hay from before daylight to past dark for seems like weeks.
We'd find them huddled up and they'd scatter but a few had frozen to death in every group.
I don't know if they every got acclimated since we didn't finish the winter there.
So there not suited for that country up there
That fall they shipped in Gerts and they were as wild as deer. I remember they were a dark red, horned cattle with lots of leather, as a kid all I had ever been around were Hereford or baldies and I thought the Gerts were the sorriest I had ever seen.
We'd pen them in the horse trap for a few days and feed them before we drove them out to pasture, but they ran through and tore up fences, tried to jump cattle guards and would fight if pressured.
I remember we had a bad ice/snow storm and we were out on the feed truck hauling hay from before daylight to past dark for seems like weeks.
We'd find them huddled up and they'd scatter but a few had frozen to death in every group.
I don't know if they every got acclimated since we didn't finish the winter there.
So there not suited for that country up there