This weekend Trent and I had to bring home a few cows that had gotten a little thin to put them on a little better feed. We want to make sure that they are taken care of so that they can raise a healthy calf in the upcoming months. Leave it to my husband to pick a cold and miserable day to go get them especially when the day before was 35 and sunny, but off we went with Darrell (my father in law) as the pickup/trailer driver and cameraman. Trent was riding one of our younger geldings (Buckeye) and I was riding Tug who has done this a time or two. We got the first cow roped fairly quickly and I stuck a loop on her for good measure and we got her "coaxed" into the trailer.
The second cow wasnt nearly as thin as the first and had plenty of spunk, getting her into the trailer was not going to be as easy. We pulled the rope through the trailer and I latched on with Tug, who gets his name for a reason. He is big, strong and could pull down a house if you needed him too. Trent got on the other side of the trailer with Buckeye, Darrell at the rear with an incentive tool and with us both pulling got her front feet into the trailer, but then she put on the brakes. We fought her for the next 20 minutes but that cow was just not going to get into the trailer. Finally after she fell down outside of the trailer we decided rather than injurying her or the calf would would try to get her a different day. Trent can be a bit stubborn but it looks like that cow was just a little more stubborn than him.
The second cow wasnt nearly as thin as the first and had plenty of spunk, getting her into the trailer was not going to be as easy. We pulled the rope through the trailer and I latched on with Tug, who gets his name for a reason. He is big, strong and could pull down a house if you needed him too. Trent got on the other side of the trailer with Buckeye, Darrell at the rear with an incentive tool and with us both pulling got her front feet into the trailer, but then she put on the brakes. We fought her for the next 20 minutes but that cow was just not going to get into the trailer. Finally after she fell down outside of the trailer we decided rather than injurying her or the calf would would try to get her a different day. Trent can be a bit stubborn but it looks like that cow was just a little more stubborn than him.
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