No better way to do it than with the help of one of the kids. Had to shut it down at 11:00 due to the heat but did manage to ge a few out. Hopefully get an early start again tomorrow.
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Time to bring the boys home
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Such beautiful scenery! And an excellent helper.
How hot is it way up there in Canada, Silver? I noticed she had on long sleeves. This past Saturday I was on horseback with cattle all afternoon, temps in the 90's and humidity near 100%. Loved it! Then again, if it gets too much below 50 degrees, especially with wind, my ass is staying inside the house! I have the utmost respect and admiration for you Canadian cattlemen with those long , cold winters. No way I could survive one up there! Damn nice horse she is on, too. Do you breed and raise your horses, too?
wbvs58
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And no hats????
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It was 100 last week for awhile, however today it did not get above 85F. But that's too hot for me, my horses, and my cows lol, I don't like to move cattle above 70F. This morning it was 60 when we started and 70 when we quit. I could not and would not live somewhere as hot as what you folks down there deal with.
Her horse we did not raise, my horse was. We have not had a foal here in years, we used to run as many as 35 horses but have got it down to a bare minimum now.
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I was wearing a ball cap. I hate picking up cowboy hats knocked off in the brush.
Rydero
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Nice to see some green and nice scenery. We're pretty brown and crispy now. That heatwave and the lack of rain really took the life out of everything
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It's strange here, grass is good, especially in the bush. But no hay. Well, we are running at about 50% of normal, so not good.
Rydero
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We're in bad shape. Last 2 years were dry with poor hay crops, now it's no hay, pastures burning up, grasshoppers and.crops failing/threatening to fail depending on maturity. They're starting to declare agricultural disasters in the area.
Down here, we are so eat up with hay that people who raise it just to sell are worried it won't bring anything. Our bermuda field will make 5 cuttings easily this year. No telling what it would cost, with diesel prices like they are, to send a truck from GA to Canada. No one down here uses the big 3 x3 or 4 x4 square balers. Those bales are the most efficient for shipping. Or small square bales. Round bales you just don't get a lot of tonnage in hay on a 52' flat bed.
I remember when we had the bad drought in 1986, people from Texas and the midwest sent train loads of hay to different spots in GA that we could go pick up hay at. And in the mid 90's, we were able to return the favor, sending hay to Oklahoma, I think it was. Is it difficult to take ag products across the US- Canada border?
I wonder if there are places further north, or other places in Canada, that have bumper crops of hay like we do down here? I have watched these posts and admired the cattle pics of our Canadian friends all year. It would be a shame if some had to cull their exceptional cattle because of pasture/hay shortages.
I remember when we had the bad drought in 1986, people from Texas and the midwest sent train loads of hay to different spots in GA that we could go pick up hay at. And in the mid 90's, we were able to return the favor, sending hay to Oklahoma, I think it was. Is it difficult to take ag products across the US- Canada border?
I wonder if there are places further north, or other places in Canada, that have bumper crops of hay like we do down here? I have watched these posts and admired the cattle pics of our Canadian friends all year. It would be a shame if some had to cull their exceptional cattle because of pasture/hay shortages.
Yep. A cowboy hat ain't worth a damned for working on horseback. I used to prefer jack pot team ropings to rodeo, because I could wear a ball cap, or no hat, and T-shirts at them. Whereas at the rodeos we have to wear the cowboy hats and long sleeve western shirts.
The sorrel..is he Skipper W bred? He has a look that reminds me of the Skipper W's. I hear ya on the weather. I am sure if I was forced to transplant up there, I'd eventually acclimate. As would you if you had to live down here. The advantages to this part of Ga, is,,, you only have to feed hay Dec til March, if you fertilize and maintain your pastures right. And, you can run 1 cow per acre easily, if you fertilize and maintain right. About once or twice a year, we will get snow. Businesses, schools, etc, shut down, of course, though by afternoon it is melted and gone. Maybe 4 or 5 days a winter, I have to chop ice out of the horses' water troughs.
Something I have noticed, Silver, is that horses seem to be able to acclimate a LOT easier than people, or cattle. I have shipped horses from New Mexico to Washington, Maine to Fla in the summer, here to North Dakota in winter, and they seem to pay the weather no mind. They will hair up, or shed off, depending on the weather, in a week or two.
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No Skipper W on his papers, perhaps on his extended, I haven't dug that deep. His registered name Jessies Tivio King, which kinda tells you a good part of his breeding.
Yeah, Doc Bar, Poco Bueno, Jessie James, and King 234 probably. By God, if he ain't a top notch cow horse, them it sure ain't due to conformation or genetics!!! :)
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He's a pretty fair barrel racer too lol.
But the black.... that is the horse. Top notch cow horse and as good a heeling horse as one will come across.
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That's how I've been doing it for years. This is the first time pulling bulls in a long time. I'm tired of oops babies and hunting down bulls in the fall that have holed up in the bush miles from home. It's also good time spent with my daughter, and it never hurts to try to keep your cattle horse broke. Even now I don't really expect to get them all, even though I'd sure like to. Next year I will try to manage my breeding pastures better so I have a better chance of getting them all.
Yep. He's a good looking horse too. The way he carries his head shows he has a lot of sense. How is he bred? And you did raise him, right?
Nesikep
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The heat wave we had has really damaged the trees around here.. Fir trees, saskatoon bushes, cottonwoods, lots of stuff is half dead.. On the fir trees that's going to leave a long time scar I think
