by Jack
When we say it’s time to pony up, we really mean it! You better get your horse saddled because we’ve got some cattle to round up. Yep pardner, it’s that time of year again when them lil doggies have to have their vaccinations and wormer and that means somebody has got to saddle up and move em into the coral.
Today, we had four real good cabio’s and it went pretty smooth unlike last year when just us Gringo’s tried it. We had those cows goin in six different directions. When we finally got em cornered and were moving into the coral those cows were pretty worked up and their tails were swishing and flickin some real nasty green cow poop on us. Cows do that when they aren’t exactly happy. After we got em in the coral it didn’t get any better, we had city
people being knocked off the coral fence. Now imagine a couple of goosey city girls armed with hypodermic needles tying to give the shots while the cows bucks and swished tails full of wet green poop! There were times when we almost vaccinated ourselve. Oh I’m sure it would have been hysterical to watch, but it wasn’t a whole lot of fun to be one of the cowhands. But, this time, with some professional help, the cows didn’t even bust out any fence panels or try to jump out of the chute like they did last year and by 1 o’clock the last little heifer was scootin out of the gate to join the herd.
There are a lot of people out this way (Butte City) and at the ranch that are real good with a lasso and a cuttin horse, but I’m not one of them. Far from it. My idea of roundin up cattle is with my trusty 4 wheeler and that’s about as far as I will go. If it doesn’t have a key to turn off, I ain’t gettin on it.
Of course you can’t rope a cow from a 4 wheeler, well, I suppose you could, but only if you had a death wish or were a total greenhorn. A full grown cow weights about 1000 pounds and that’s a whole lot more than me and my Honda. Now on a horse it is a different story. A good horse and rider can bring a cow to a quick stop when you dally up on the saddle horn, but you try to turn one any other way and chances are you’re just along for the ride and the cow is drivin.
So that’s how our day went, hope yours was just as much fun.
I figured you deserved a break from the political stuff. Nothing like some cowboy work to bring a little balance to life and get you far away from politics. Well, I better go wash off that wormer medicine….and the cow pies. Adios.