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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1828639" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>You down around Claxton and Metter? Yeah, it would be better to just take 16 out of Macon, than to go across country from Cordele. Takes me 2 and 1/2 to 3 hours pulling a trailer to get to the Kudzu place, and would be 2 hours from there to Cobbtown. But, it would only be 2 and 1/2 hours for me from up here to there, going I 16. 5 hours on the road round trip, and probably about an hour on site, I think the cost would be more than it would be worth to just do the one bull. It wouldn't take 5 minutes to catch him and hold him while you gave him shots, but we won't yippie-kye-yay, take off after them hell -bent for leather, unless you hqd a 7'6" high pipe corral. We'd saddle up, ease into the pasture or corral, and just sit there quietly on the horses, til the cattle got settled and curious enough to actually approach us. (and they would). Then we'd walk in and around among them for a while, and when they got ok with that, we'd just drop a loop on him. He'd probably try to take off then, but that's what you need to get him hopping in back enough to heel him. I'd get him on the 2nd hop. we don't "cowboy" cattle except as a last resort. Best to never get them spooked and running, but if you do, you'd best be cowboy enough and mounted well enough to get them quick! And that is only if they are in a fence or corral that can hold them, or in a large enough open space to get it done before they get to a fence. I detest trying to work cattle that have been cowboyed by people that didn't know what they were doing, or have had dogs sicced on them by people who didn't know how ( and their dogs didn't know how) and worst of all, had some idiot trying to chase them on 4 wheelers, motorcycles etc. Slow, quiet and easy is the key to working cattle with horses, if you want to be able to do it the 2nd and subsequent times.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1828639, member: 40587"] You down around Claxton and Metter? Yeah, it would be better to just take 16 out of Macon, than to go across country from Cordele. Takes me 2 and 1/2 to 3 hours pulling a trailer to get to the Kudzu place, and would be 2 hours from there to Cobbtown. But, it would only be 2 and 1/2 hours for me from up here to there, going I 16. 5 hours on the road round trip, and probably about an hour on site, I think the cost would be more than it would be worth to just do the one bull. It wouldn't take 5 minutes to catch him and hold him while you gave him shots, but we won't yippie-kye-yay, take off after them hell -bent for leather, unless you hqd a 7'6" high pipe corral. We'd saddle up, ease into the pasture or corral, and just sit there quietly on the horses, til the cattle got settled and curious enough to actually approach us. (and they would). Then we'd walk in and around among them for a while, and when they got ok with that, we'd just drop a loop on him. He'd probably try to take off then, but that's what you need to get him hopping in back enough to heel him. I'd get him on the 2nd hop. we don't "cowboy" cattle except as a last resort. Best to never get them spooked and running, but if you do, you'd best be cowboy enough and mounted well enough to get them quick! And that is only if they are in a fence or corral that can hold them, or in a large enough open space to get it done before they get to a fence. I detest trying to work cattle that have been cowboyed by people that didn't know what they were doing, or have had dogs sicced on them by people who didn't know how ( and their dogs didn't know how) and worst of all, had some idiot trying to chase them on 4 wheelers, motorcycles etc. Slow, quiet and easy is the key to working cattle with horses, if you want to be able to do it the 2nd and subsequent times. [/QUOTE]
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