If you've ever complained about rounding up your cattle...

I don't know if any of us can complain after watching this. Crazy stuff!!

http://youtu.be/M-c2SS0ZjcY

Great footage.  Can't beat good horses, good dogs, wild cattle and rough country for an adrenaline rush.  Not all that different from a lot of places in the western states.

I'm pretty sure me and four boys got dog cussed last summer in Colorado.  We were on a day hike in the West Elk Wilderness near Montrose, Colorado.  We came up over the top of a hill and were going down the back side toward some heavy timber when we heard something crashing through trees.  I thought a herd of elk were about to come running out, but in fact - it was one cowboy bringing a handful of cows out.  They hadn't seen just a whole lot of people before.  We tried to get out of sight but couldn't and those cows turned tail and went right back the other way as quick as they saw us.  I'm pretty sure we weren't that cowboy's favorite people that day.

Why do all those wild bulls look as if they could grade as CAB! ;D

ext clones?

Beautiful country. Wild they way they work "wild" cattle.

knabe said:

ext clones?

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(lol) (clapping)

If I am clear about the video, the cattle were owned by a person.  That person obviously should not own cattle.  The cattle were obviously not "managed" by any stretch of the imagination.

If my count is right, the round up cost 2 horses, at least 4 dogs, 1 cow and 1 bull.  I am not saying it was anyone's fault EXCEPT for the "owner" that did not manage his cattle.

Seems odd they didn't say or show what happened to the cattle after they were in a corral.  Anyone know?

I will take my "too tame" cattle over this anyday!  8)

I understood the landowner bought the land with the cattle on it.  He was trying to remove them to maybe put some more docile cattle on it.  This can happen over time in brushy country as the ones that are good at hiding at roundup time teach their calves the same thing.  If you can't control them with water sources (water traps, turning off windmills, etc.) or weather (in Wyoming snow usually pushes them down to lower country for fall gathers) you can build up a herd of feral ones that avoid the gather.  The landowner had to hire these guys to get the feral cattle off and they probably took a percentage of the price of the sale for their services.

BTDT said:

If I am clear about the video, the cattle were owned by a person.  That person obviously should not own cattle.  The cattle were obviously not "managed" by any stretch of the imagination.

If my count is right, the round up cost 2 horses, at least 4 dogs, 1 cow and 1 bull.  I am not saying it was anyone's fault EXCEPT for the "owner" that did not manage his cattle.

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The majority of cattle in the world aren't 'managed.'  They're turned out on open ranges and rounded up once a year.  Likely real similar to how the free grazer Bundy out in Vegas runs his operation. 

Which goes back to why I find it humorous that people gripe about this breed or that breed not being "good enough".  Never mind the rugged western US, the majority of cattle in states like Texas aren't "managed" in hardly any sense of the word.  There are thousands of brahman-influenced mutts running around in south Texas brush country that aren't much gentler those things (at least there before the drought thinned them out).

Anything any of us raise (clubby, shorthorn, etc) are superior to 90% of what's out there.  You think cattle that wild will ever settle down and actually feed well and finish if you can ever get them to a feedlot?  The kids working the back of sale barns those kinds of animals find their way to better be quick on their feet.

Any ranch in the U.S. showing video of having to handle cattle that roughly would catch hell though.  Never mind from the dog lovers.  I'm not tough enough to deal with animals like that.

They could have prolly made a fortune flying people in for extravagant 'wild bovine' hunts-  (lol) 

Wheres marlin perkins and jim when you need them.


Jim probably could have reached down from a helicopter and just grabbed them.

I'm thinking more and more about this hunting idea. I mean, how cool would it be to take one of those bulls with a spear!?!?

Who needs a spear?  These guys tied them up.

The key is dogs to harass and the tame "Judas herd" where if they join up the harassment stops.  If they break from the herd then they get the dogs again.

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I'm thinking more and more about this hunting idea. I mean, how cool would it be to take one of those bulls with a spear!?!?

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Tarzan complex.

knabe said:

-XBAR- said:

I'm thinking more and more about this hunting idea. I mean, how cool would it be to take one of those bulls with a spear!?!?

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Tarzan complex.

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http://thebomanistudy.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/the-tarzan-syndrome-how-the-white-man-destroyed-the-black-man/

This is right up Fannons alley

Thank goodness the government and schools are embedding inferiority and remedying the situation.