coachg
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Dealt with the craziest calf I've ever seen yesterday. Had him loaded about a month ago and he did a u turn and crawled over , under and through about 20 other calves to get out the trailer before the truck driver closed the gate . Then went through a gate , took it off the hinges and popped the next gate open because of an old chain . Then through a webwire fence back to his momma . Really nice angus calf out of a brockle faced momma and my Plattemere Weigh Up son . Last calf I needed to sale from this years crop . I guessed him now at about 600-650.
Well this weekend I got them together in our catch pasture leading to the corral. Monday morning I walked him to the corral and put him and momma in the corral with a couple of bred heifers . Went and got the truck and trailer and backed up to the head catch . My farm hand , Donald maned the head catch and I got him separated and headed up the chute . He never checked up . I think he bounced off the front of my 24 ft trailer and Donald shut the gate . He proceeded to run head on to the back gates, jump and hit the top of the trailer . I've never owned a calf that acted like that !
I drove straight to the sale barn and gave the hands a heads up to watch him . Had to go home and wash blood out of the trailer . He's been around me since he hit the ground, I've never worked him , treated him rough even hollerd at him when he got away last month. Did that experience cause him to be crazy or is it genetic? Called the sale barn after the sale and he brought $1300 after deductions . Didn't ask what he weighed but I know it was less than the 600-650 I guessed him at after all his craziness on the trailer. And who knows what he did before and during the sale ?
Well this weekend I got them together in our catch pasture leading to the corral. Monday morning I walked him to the corral and put him and momma in the corral with a couple of bred heifers . Went and got the truck and trailer and backed up to the head catch . My farm hand , Donald maned the head catch and I got him separated and headed up the chute . He never checked up . I think he bounced off the front of my 24 ft trailer and Donald shut the gate . He proceeded to run head on to the back gates, jump and hit the top of the trailer . I've never owned a calf that acted like that !
I drove straight to the sale barn and gave the hands a heads up to watch him . Had to go home and wash blood out of the trailer . He's been around me since he hit the ground, I've never worked him , treated him rough even hollerd at him when he got away last month. Did that experience cause him to be crazy or is it genetic? Called the sale barn after the sale and he brought $1300 after deductions . Didn't ask what he weighed but I know it was less than the 600-650 I guessed him at after all his craziness on the trailer. And who knows what he did before and during the sale ?
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