Feel free to share your stories, here's mine.
I took a new ranch job in Colorado and due to the elevation of 9,000 ft, I left my cows at home (1,000ft) until I was able to research their ability to survive. Due to our extreme temperature variances right now, I thought it would be better to leave the cows in KS until next spring when things level out a little bit and we PAP test our replacement heifers. I left them in the care of one co-worker until the guy going to take care of my cows could take them ( 4 or 5 days). I left specific instructions to sell two steers and one Hereford bottle calf heifer. In with the Hereford heifer was my "super heifer". She's a beautiful black baldy that has power cow written all over her and she's made many friends. She's a September calf and she along with the Hereford heifer were with 11 other Angus ET heifer calves that are half nuts. I told him to take my baldy heifer and put her with all of my other cows , which are extremely gentle, after he pulled the bull out. All of my other cows are spring calving.... Somehow, he interpreted that as sell her. I found out the day after the sale at the salebarn she had been sold, so I tracked her down to a feedlot in Western Kansas. Luckily, they were great to work with and I was able to get her home, 600 miles later. However, due to her recent travels and other issues, she's become not so friendly. I put her in her own pen and started to grain her trying to settle her down some. I had to get another cow in that's super gentle, to doctor, and I put them together. Two days later, I redoctored the cow and ran my heifer through the chute to cut her implant out and replace the feedlot tag with her own ID. When she came out of the chute, she promptly ran to the other end of the pen and attempted to jump the fence and crashed a corner post. Luckily, we had horses caught and we followed tracks 1 mile down the road and found her grazing happily. We trailed her another 1/4 mile down the pasture roads to my boss's cows which are very gentle and put her in there. However, there's still a bull in with them and wouldn't you know it she was in heat a couple days ago. Thank goodness for Lutalyse. She's now very satisfied and will tolerate me walking through the cows, but if you walk toward her, she will go to the other end of the herd....
At the point of her crashing the fence, I began to wonder if she should have been left at the feedlot. I don't tolerate cows like that and I'm hoping that her spending time with my boss's cows who are rotationally grazed, extremely gentle, and see me every other day, on foot and horseback, she will decided that I'm not satan.....
I figured that this whole deal cost me an extra $300 and wouldn't you know it, my former co-worker will not return phone calls....... ???
That's my story, how bout yours!
I took a new ranch job in Colorado and due to the elevation of 9,000 ft, I left my cows at home (1,000ft) until I was able to research their ability to survive. Due to our extreme temperature variances right now, I thought it would be better to leave the cows in KS until next spring when things level out a little bit and we PAP test our replacement heifers. I left them in the care of one co-worker until the guy going to take care of my cows could take them ( 4 or 5 days). I left specific instructions to sell two steers and one Hereford bottle calf heifer. In with the Hereford heifer was my "super heifer". She's a beautiful black baldy that has power cow written all over her and she's made many friends. She's a September calf and she along with the Hereford heifer were with 11 other Angus ET heifer calves that are half nuts. I told him to take my baldy heifer and put her with all of my other cows , which are extremely gentle, after he pulled the bull out. All of my other cows are spring calving.... Somehow, he interpreted that as sell her. I found out the day after the sale at the salebarn she had been sold, so I tracked her down to a feedlot in Western Kansas. Luckily, they were great to work with and I was able to get her home, 600 miles later. However, due to her recent travels and other issues, she's become not so friendly. I put her in her own pen and started to grain her trying to settle her down some. I had to get another cow in that's super gentle, to doctor, and I put them together. Two days later, I redoctored the cow and ran my heifer through the chute to cut her implant out and replace the feedlot tag with her own ID. When she came out of the chute, she promptly ran to the other end of the pen and attempted to jump the fence and crashed a corner post. Luckily, we had horses caught and we followed tracks 1 mile down the road and found her grazing happily. We trailed her another 1/4 mile down the pasture roads to my boss's cows which are very gentle and put her in there. However, there's still a bull in with them and wouldn't you know it she was in heat a couple days ago. Thank goodness for Lutalyse. She's now very satisfied and will tolerate me walking through the cows, but if you walk toward her, she will go to the other end of the herd....
At the point of her crashing the fence, I began to wonder if she should have been left at the feedlot. I don't tolerate cows like that and I'm hoping that her spending time with my boss's cows who are rotationally grazed, extremely gentle, and see me every other day, on foot and horseback, she will decided that I'm not satan.....
I figured that this whole deal cost me an extra $300 and wouldn't you know it, my former co-worker will not return phone calls....... ???
That's my story, how bout yours!
