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We may all be missing the boat, by not raising Corrientes!
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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1708676" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>[USER=6291]@Brute 23[/USER] I was down there last weekend, the 9th and 10th. I took my SSH gelding and a gaited mare mule down to leave for the bird hunting season. Saturday we took them and Scott's. dad's TWH , along with 3 of the bird dogs, over to the place. Wanted to see how the mule did with dogs on a lease, as well as get an idea of how many coveys we had. ( We gonna have a LOT of birds this season). The Weds and Thurs before, they had gotten 6 " of rain in those 2 days, and everything had greened back up. But, along the back fence, which borders timber co land that a hunting club had leased, we found a nice, new, double ladder stand someone had put on Scott's land. We took it with us when we went back to the trucks for lunch, then went back with a bag of felt washers to put out in the poacher's tire tracks, and fixed the fence he had been climbing over. Shot a half dozen fox squirrels for supper with the 22 rifle I had carried to shoot around the mule to see how she did ( She never paid it any attention). </p><p></p><p>I think that the forage on the place would have held up to leave the cows there this winter, but with gun season opening yesterday, and the evidence of poachers getting on the land, Scott decided to move the cows. When we got back to the trucks that evening, they were just about all inside the corral eating salt and minerals, with a few at the pond. So, we shut them in the corral, and rode a mile and half down the road to where we had had the dove shoot to make sure those fences were ok and all the gates were shut. We then drove the 104 Corriente cows and 9 calves a mile and a half down the dirt road, with a SSH, a TWH, a gaited mule! Not one bit of trouble at all, and that was good thing since we weren't mounted on cow horses and had no herd dogs!</p><p></p><p>They start calving the 1st of February, and he plans to move them back over there in January once we get tired of quail and rabbit hunting. We had already sold 16 solid colored ones to a CT member on here , and someone else wants 20 of the youngest, and is going to get them in November after they are vaccinated and vet checked for shipping out of state. So there will only be about 80 going back on that place instead of 120, 1/3rd less than this year. I think the forage will be enough for them next year. It mighty even get ahead of them if the rains are good and come at the right times.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1708676, member: 40587"] [USER=6291]@Brute 23[/USER] I was down there last weekend, the 9th and 10th. I took my SSH gelding and a gaited mare mule down to leave for the bird hunting season. Saturday we took them and Scott's. dad's TWH , along with 3 of the bird dogs, over to the place. Wanted to see how the mule did with dogs on a lease, as well as get an idea of how many coveys we had. ( We gonna have a LOT of birds this season). The Weds and Thurs before, they had gotten 6 " of rain in those 2 days, and everything had greened back up. But, along the back fence, which borders timber co land that a hunting club had leased, we found a nice, new, double ladder stand someone had put on Scott's land. We took it with us when we went back to the trucks for lunch, then went back with a bag of felt washers to put out in the poacher's tire tracks, and fixed the fence he had been climbing over. Shot a half dozen fox squirrels for supper with the 22 rifle I had carried to shoot around the mule to see how she did ( She never paid it any attention). I think that the forage on the place would have held up to leave the cows there this winter, but with gun season opening yesterday, and the evidence of poachers getting on the land, Scott decided to move the cows. When we got back to the trucks that evening, they were just about all inside the corral eating salt and minerals, with a few at the pond. So, we shut them in the corral, and rode a mile and half down the road to where we had had the dove shoot to make sure those fences were ok and all the gates were shut. We then drove the 104 Corriente cows and 9 calves a mile and a half down the dirt road, with a SSH, a TWH, a gaited mule! Not one bit of trouble at all, and that was good thing since we weren't mounted on cow horses and had no herd dogs! They start calving the 1st of February, and he plans to move them back over there in January once we get tired of quail and rabbit hunting. We had already sold 16 solid colored ones to a CT member on here , and someone else wants 20 of the youngest, and is going to get them in November after they are vaccinated and vet checked for shipping out of state. So there will only be about 80 going back on that place instead of 120, 1/3rd less than this year. I think the forage will be enough for them next year. It mighty even get ahead of them if the rains are good and come at the right times. [/QUOTE]
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