MotoMojo09
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Okeeey sooo...
I just want to tell every one how splendid my 4-h year is going so far!! >
Ok so first of all, the place i get my calves (in which I won grand champion last year)
There nieces moved down so now they get first pick of all the calves which is fine with me I guess, but since I won grand champion with one of there calves (for the first time in YEARS) everybody wanted a calf from them.
So they decided to do a phone auction and I bid on the steer i wanted, which went for 1,700!! which is alot for this county.
ANYWAYS...
I go to pick the calf up and he turns out to be crazy!! we tried loading him for 2 1/2 HOURS and finally had to give up because we were scared for his health. :?
And in trying to load him he almost charged me multiple times and he took down a fence ect, ect.
So after long discusions with the sellers we decided he would let me get another calf (not as good) for alot cheaper.
So we agreed on that.
So I get this new calf all seems well And I've had him for about two weeks now.
He was coming along splendedly I was able to lead him, tie him, brush him, blow him and walk around his hind end he never seemed to care at all he didn't kick nothing I even was able to take his halter off and catch him easily.
He was a model citizen,
But today...
EVERYTHING CHANGED!!
I went out to feed him with my little cousins, and I went to tie him up. Then my little cuz jumped the fence the calf took one look at him and tore the rope right out of my hands!! He tried running through one fence and couldn't then he came for ME!!! I had to jump on the fence and so did my little cuz.
The calf rammed through another fence (A green horse pannel that weighs 50 lbs or so)
And completly totalled it!! So after he got through that fence he went all the way across our property and jumped our other fence into the neighbors yard, headed for there house!!!!
Finally he made it to the ditch bank, behind my neighbors where I couldn't see him anymore.
And meanwhile I was still standing right there where the calf broke out of my hands wondering
"What just happened?"
As I watched him galloping away :?
Soooo After I collected myself I ran like crazy to get my dad because I knew I wuz never going to be able to catch him alone!
So we took our 4-weeler to the ditch bank to see if we could find him, and we did.
But then scared him into another nieghbors corral of horses!!
then they ALL started running like 10 horses and a cow
so we decided to just be still for a minute to let him calm down.
he was about 200 yards away from us, I moved like 3 steps he saw me and started running right for me!!!
I was seriously scared!!!!
but then my dad scared him from trampling us, soo my fearless father grabs a rather large tree branch and tries to walk up to the calf.
It didn't work at first but after a while he wuz able to get pretty close until finally he grabbed the end of the lead rope!! I was like THANK GOD!!!! But our struggle wasn't over yet we managed to get him tied to a post witch he wuz still freaking out!! but we got him tied to our 4-weeler and we had to DRAG him home to his pen.
I had to have every body leave so I could untie him and he wouldn't do it all over again.
FINALLY he calmed down I let go of his lead rope and gave him a big pile of hay.
He seemed better but idk I guess I'll find out in the morning.
guess I got the crazy calf after all :-\
BTW I skipped alot of hairy details in between the gettin glose and catching it took us like 3 hours
So hows your year been?
???
I just want to tell every one how splendid my 4-h year is going so far!! >
Ok so first of all, the place i get my calves (in which I won grand champion last year)
There nieces moved down so now they get first pick of all the calves which is fine with me I guess, but since I won grand champion with one of there calves (for the first time in YEARS) everybody wanted a calf from them.
So they decided to do a phone auction and I bid on the steer i wanted, which went for 1,700!! which is alot for this county.
ANYWAYS...
I go to pick the calf up and he turns out to be crazy!! we tried loading him for 2 1/2 HOURS and finally had to give up because we were scared for his health. :?
And in trying to load him he almost charged me multiple times and he took down a fence ect, ect.
So after long discusions with the sellers we decided he would let me get another calf (not as good) for alot cheaper.
So we agreed on that.
So I get this new calf all seems well And I've had him for about two weeks now.
He was coming along splendedly I was able to lead him, tie him, brush him, blow him and walk around his hind end he never seemed to care at all he didn't kick nothing I even was able to take his halter off and catch him easily.
He was a model citizen,
But today...
EVERYTHING CHANGED!!
I went out to feed him with my little cousins, and I went to tie him up. Then my little cuz jumped the fence the calf took one look at him and tore the rope right out of my hands!! He tried running through one fence and couldn't then he came for ME!!! I had to jump on the fence and so did my little cuz.
The calf rammed through another fence (A green horse pannel that weighs 50 lbs or so)
And completly totalled it!! So after he got through that fence he went all the way across our property and jumped our other fence into the neighbors yard, headed for there house!!!!
Finally he made it to the ditch bank, behind my neighbors where I couldn't see him anymore.
And meanwhile I was still standing right there where the calf broke out of my hands wondering
"What just happened?"
As I watched him galloping away :?
Soooo After I collected myself I ran like crazy to get my dad because I knew I wuz never going to be able to catch him alone!
So we took our 4-weeler to the ditch bank to see if we could find him, and we did.
But then scared him into another nieghbors corral of horses!!
then they ALL started running like 10 horses and a cow
so we decided to just be still for a minute to let him calm down.
he was about 200 yards away from us, I moved like 3 steps he saw me and started running right for me!!!
I was seriously scared!!!!
but then my dad scared him from trampling us, soo my fearless father grabs a rather large tree branch and tries to walk up to the calf.
It didn't work at first but after a while he wuz able to get pretty close until finally he grabbed the end of the lead rope!! I was like THANK GOD!!!! But our struggle wasn't over yet we managed to get him tied to a post witch he wuz still freaking out!! but we got him tied to our 4-weeler and we had to DRAG him home to his pen.
I had to have every body leave so I could untie him and he wouldn't do it all over again.
FINALLY he calmed down I let go of his lead rope and gave him a big pile of hay.
He seemed better but idk I guess I'll find out in the morning.
guess I got the crazy calf after all :-\
BTW I skipped alot of hairy details in between the gettin glose and catching it took us like 3 hours
So hows your year been?
???