dcara
Well-known member
Thought I'd ask this one not only for the educational aspect of us beginners, but some may even be humerous. Anyway, what was the worst mistake you folks are willing to admit to with cattle and would advise us beginers against doing even though it may have seemed like a good idea at the time?
A couple of my most recent ones were placeing a young bull in with a cutting horse for a couple of days. Fortunately no real harm was done other than having to go get the bull from another pasture after he decided he didn't want to play with the horse anymore.
Another was trying to use a brabwire fence line as one side of a chute to herd some calves into the trailer. Needless to say I had to spend the rest of the day rounding the calves up from the other pasture and then repairing the fence.
Oh yeah. There was the time I asked my son to use our 2 horse trailer to load a 6 mo old calf for me to take to auction and I thought I might pick up a horse at auction also. The trailer has one of those flemsy doors in the front with a window. When I came out of the house my son was slowly driving up from the pasture with the trailer and the calf standing in the bed of my pickup. According to my son, the front door of the trailer was not latched and the wind blew it open during the loading. When the calf went into the trailer and saw daylight he just kept going, right thru the door and ended up in the bed of my F250.
A couple of my most recent ones were placeing a young bull in with a cutting horse for a couple of days. Fortunately no real harm was done other than having to go get the bull from another pasture after he decided he didn't want to play with the horse anymore.
Another was trying to use a brabwire fence line as one side of a chute to herd some calves into the trailer. Needless to say I had to spend the rest of the day rounding the calves up from the other pasture and then repairing the fence.
Oh yeah. There was the time I asked my son to use our 2 horse trailer to load a 6 mo old calf for me to take to auction and I thought I might pick up a horse at auction also. The trailer has one of those flemsy doors in the front with a window. When I came out of the house my son was slowly driving up from the pasture with the trailer and the calf standing in the bed of my pickup. According to my son, the front door of the trailer was not latched and the wind blew it open during the loading. When the calf went into the trailer and saw daylight he just kept going, right thru the door and ended up in the bed of my F250.