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<blockquote data-quote="Cowboymom" data-source="post: 144104" data-attributes="member: 2278"><p>Doc Harris- Are you the Doc Harris that taught repro at Cal Poly in the 70's-80's? If you are glad to see you are still alive and imparting your commonsense. You were the best and nicest teacher I ever had, always let me out of class to go cut!</p><p></p><p>Anyway, on the subject. We run 150 head of PB Hereford cows. We have one son, who is now 14 and is six feet. We did not let him in the pens for ages, still don't if things are getting into a wreck. He helped from the time he was very small, helped around the chutes but he also knew when I said to "get in the truck". It was move fast. He also spent a lot of time playing in the dirt while we worked, that was just fine. </p><p></p><p>You will have to decide what risks you want to put your children into. When our son was born, my husband and I decided that we were going to do what we thought was right, no matter what other people were doing with their kids. We got some whining about so and so was in the pen, but he got told, sorry. The first time we let him in a branding pen he was about nine and it was with a crew that knew him since he was born, all good hands. He gave shots and they all watched him and he knew how to handle himself. We told him then, just because you get to go into this pen, doesn't mean you can go in the next one. </p><p></p><p>Cattle are dangerous and will kill you. One of those cows thinks that one of your girls is threatening her calf and she will react in the same way if you thought someone was threatening one of your girls. </p><p></p><p>When we started the show steer deal, my hubby swore he was going to get killed by one of the "gentle" steers. The only time my son got hurt was when he was in a wash rack and a butterfly balloon landed on his dog gentle steers head. He kicked so hard, we thought he broke his leg. If he had been a little tiny kid, it would have killed him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowboymom, post: 144104, member: 2278"] Doc Harris- Are you the Doc Harris that taught repro at Cal Poly in the 70's-80's? If you are glad to see you are still alive and imparting your commonsense. You were the best and nicest teacher I ever had, always let me out of class to go cut! Anyway, on the subject. We run 150 head of PB Hereford cows. We have one son, who is now 14 and is six feet. We did not let him in the pens for ages, still don't if things are getting into a wreck. He helped from the time he was very small, helped around the chutes but he also knew when I said to "get in the truck". It was move fast. He also spent a lot of time playing in the dirt while we worked, that was just fine. You will have to decide what risks you want to put your children into. When our son was born, my husband and I decided that we were going to do what we thought was right, no matter what other people were doing with their kids. We got some whining about so and so was in the pen, but he got told, sorry. The first time we let him in a branding pen he was about nine and it was with a crew that knew him since he was born, all good hands. He gave shots and they all watched him and he knew how to handle himself. We told him then, just because you get to go into this pen, doesn't mean you can go in the next one. Cattle are dangerous and will kill you. One of those cows thinks that one of your girls is threatening her calf and she will react in the same way if you thought someone was threatening one of your girls. When we started the show steer deal, my hubby swore he was going to get killed by one of the "gentle" steers. The only time my son got hurt was when he was in a wash rack and a butterfly balloon landed on his dog gentle steers head. He kicked so hard, we thought he broke his leg. If he had been a little tiny kid, it would have killed him. [/QUOTE]
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