Hard knocks

[Blessings Farms]

 Sat. was not a good day. Picked Lucy up from A I and I tie a loop in lead Rope for her
she can be a hand full. When she came out of pen and saw that head gate that !!! cow 
turned 180 on a dime and drug me across barn floor. My right side is black and blue
top to bottom. 
 I have threatened her with the gun before but by the end of the day and talking it over
with Nancy we decided that if we had been penned for 2 weeks and had every thing
done to us she had done to her in that head gate we would have run like h!!! too.
 So she is in pasture calmed down and hopefully breed to Breen of Paradise.
 These pasture born Dexter without the human interaction after berth are a hand
full. Hopefully our future ones born here will be different. We can can walk up to
and pet all of them except Shea and Flores calf and are working on them.

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been there done that. Tryed to lasso a young bull calf once. Bad new is I got him first try and he took off. Some how I thought if I could hold on I could stop him, wrong. Learn to know when it aint gonna happen and when to let go and regroup. do you have a halter on her or halter rope or were you just using a loop around there neck. If just a loop around there neck it will put them in panic mode when it pulls down on them. Not a good option for an untrained cow.

[genebo]

My first heifer came here wearing a halter. She ran straight through the fence and was gone for 5 days. Finally a neighbor spotted her drinking from his pond, next to his blackberry thicket.

Two of my friends and I went to get her. One asked to be the one to catch her, because he had a lot of cowboy blood and wanted to use it. He caught her by the halter and she promptly drug him 10 feet through the blackberries before he let go. We teased him about letting go and he said, "It don't take me long to get enough cowboying!"

[Blessings Farms]

Guess I am not smart enough to be a cowboy I did not leave go . I always try
to halter cows when moving them except steers and Lucy had a halter on.
I have had her 2 years now and she can still be a hand full at times.
Try to spend time each evening with them in the pasture and feed a little
sweet feed and apples. Some people have said to tie up for a week or two
have never tried I like my barn and want to keep it. I hope kindness to them
wins over time but I always watch my back too.