Wild Cattle

[DOC HARRIS]

4 Horses,6 Cur Dogs,1 dozen Ropes,and 3 dozen set's of Hobbles.Sounds just like another day at the office.I'm game.

- - 6 Cur Dogs??! :shock: Do they each have a different whistle, or - - Personal Instruction Code?? - - and three dozen sets of hobbles?? Wowee :o You are some Trader, R ^ 5! I'm impressed! 8) 4 dogs - maybe - - -but 6?! When I was growing up in Missouri we had Fox Hounds (LOTS of 'em) but they didn't know much about cows! :shock:

 

[tapeworm]

Dont let the doctor bother you none R rafter 5....I understand what your saying...some places it takes a goosenck load of dogs. A doctor would sure as heck be in the way though. LOL

 

[Angus Guy]

Up here some us just call our cows. If they come they're ours if they don't they're someone elses.

 

[DOC HARRIS]

Dont let the doctor bother you none R rafter 5....I understand what your saying...some places it takes a goosenck load of dogs. A doctor would sure as heck be in the way though. LOL

"In the Way??" :( I BEG your Pardon! - - -well - - -on second thought- - -a gooseneck load of dogs - - h-m-m-m- -Holy "Cats" ;-) - -I just might be in the way! :lol: :lol:

 

[R ^ 5]

Naw,don't bother me none.I'm like everyone else, i'd whole lot rather suc'em with a bucket of cake into the lot.

Tapeworm,
I think that CCRanch, and you know where i'm coming from.

DOC,
you are right in one respect though.Sometimes 1 is to danm many,and sometimes 20 ain't near enough.

I have wished on more than one occassion that i would have had a DOC with me in the way by the time it was all said and done LoL!!!.

 

[R ^ 5]

CCRanch,
Reading your post brought back some memiories.My uncle back in 1977 bought a ranch out in Camaron La.The cattle were running back in the swamps on islands.I went down to help him gather the cows.All were straight Grey Brahama.Water was any where from 6''- 6'.My uncle had contracted some of the local cowboy's to help.We used no horses, they would have been useless.They constructed portable pens on some of the larger islands.We used the dogs to drive the cattle off the smaller islands and the swamps, and used Air boats and swamp buggy's to drive the cattle to the islands were the holding pen's were.Man what a wreck that was.In ten days we caught and penned around 300 head.There were alot of cattle that were left behind.But after 10 day's my uncle threw up his hands and hollered calf rope.The cattle were loaded on barges with pens built on them.First time i saw cattle hualed off by boat.No more swamps for me.I'll stick to Mesquite and Ceder brush.Sorry for the long story.Oh! by the way welcome aboard !

 

[Rafter E]

Brahama...Santa Gerhonda, Angusaki, Longzuki...They hide in the plum thickets here. Got a problem with jumping bulls hopping up and out of the trailers too. Not pretty, but it works.

 

[CCRanch]

Before my time, my Grandpa used to have to pen the cattle on the bank of the Trinity River, and they had a chute that went to the edge of the river. They would jump the cattle in the river and swim them across to the other side and start the penning again to haul or work them. Would have liked to see that. The chute was still there the last time I was boat riding in the river. It's down from Long Island Bayou if anyone knows where I'm talking about.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Before my time, my Grandpa used to have to pen the cattle on the bank of the Trinity River, and they had a chute that went to the edge of the river. They would jump the cattle in the river and swim them across to the other side and start the penning again to haul or work them. Would have liked to see that. The chute was still there the last time I was boat riding in the river. It's down from Long Island Bayou if anyone knows where I'm talking about.

You bet I do spent my youth in the Old and Lost River bottom hunting and fishing.
That country takes tough cows and cattlemen.

 

[Bama]

The Winnie auction has been closed for about 3 years now. Closest one is in Raywood.

Welcome to the Q&A Board, CCRanch. You learn stuff here that you didn't know you didn't know but after you learn it you knew that you knew you didn't know it but then you know that you know it! And it's good to know that you know all this stuff! And some of this new stuff you knew that you already knew it. I know that you will like this new stuff to know. I know you will say " I already know that I know this stuff"! I know that you will cut me some slack because it is 12:30 AM Saturday morning, and I know I've got to hit the hay! DOC HARRIS

Hey Doc there ain't suppossed to be any politics on this board. LOL

Sounds like you would make a good one. :lol:

 

[Caustic Burno]

Up here some us just call our cows. If they come they're ours if they don't they're someone elses.

Yeah and yours couldn't survive in that Trinity River Delta country. The boys in that country are special cowmen.

 

[Medic24]

I had a neighbor once that lost a cow and calf pair, after a quite a few days of searching he found it in a pasture down the road......trouble was, the "new owner" had apparently got a can of spray paint and made some touch ups on the pair so they would not look like anyone elses.......problem was, the paint had made the hair fall out, and it looked gastly.... Now that part I did see with my own eyes after they were brought home.

Odd thing is, the fellow who kept them in his pasture sued the original owner for boarding them for two weeks and won! Said he had no idea who would paint a cow, and also had no idea who owned them originally. Other wise he would have made inquiries about it... heard that from his own mouth in the court room.......now there is an honest fellow for you...............not! :cboy:

 

[CopeMan]

People like that should be hanged!!

 

[frenchie]

Before my time, my Grandpa used to have to pen the cattle on the bank of the Trinity River, and they had a chute that went to the edge of the river. They would jump the cattle in the river and swim them across to the other side and start the penning again to haul or work them. Would have liked to see that. The chute was still there the last time I was boat riding in the river. It's down from Long Island Bayou if anyone knows where I'm talking about.

You bet I do spent my youth in the Old and Lost River bottom hunting and fishing.
That country takes tough cows and cattlemen.

Is there a place called Lake Livingston in that area.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Before my time, my Grandpa used to have to pen the cattle on the bank of the Trinity River, and they had a chute that went to the edge of the river. They would jump the cattle in the river and swim them across to the other side and start the penning again to haul or work them. Would have liked to see that. The chute was still there the last time I was boat riding in the river. It's down from Long Island Bayou if anyone knows where I'm talking about.

You bet I do spent my youth in the Old and Lost River bottom hunting and fishing.
That country takes tough cows and cattlemen.

Is there a place called Lake Livingston in that area.

Yes to north about 100 miles

 

[frenchie]

Caustic Burno..Yes to north about 100 miles

Just curious...Grandpa talked about that area down there ,before the dam went in.