{"id":2435,"date":"2013-07-26T05:36:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T09:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2013-07-26T13:20:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T17:20:12","slug":"the-great-thistle-hill-cattle-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/the-great-thistle-hill-cattle-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"The great Thistle Hill cattle drive…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20130724_191644\"<\/a>….well, maybe not quite.\u00a0 But at this time every year we do bring the main herd in to work the calves.\u00a0 Nothing dramatic like roping and branding.\u00a0 We do carry some in a trailer to the vet…a more efficient use of time…for de-horning or castrating.<\/p>\n

But it’s all done without horses and\u00a0any fuss.\u00a0 You can see Wooz standing by the gate of the pen….she simply calls “whoo whoo” or something like that…and they eventually wander in.\u00a0 I’m standing inside the pen so they understand where they’re going.\u00a0 They need to turn in to me and not go straight toward the camera and another pasture.<\/p>\n

\"20130724_193314\"<\/a>\u00a0Of course, not everyone gets the “whoo whoo”.\u00a0 This young bull has always had a mind of his own.\u00a0 He’s one of our new British calves and perhaps he’s being protective of his horns and other vital body parts.<\/p>\n

But only his horns were at risk.\u00a0 He stays intact, of course.\u00a0 And we rounded him up with the Gator and\u00a0a “shh shh” nudged him into the pen.\u00a0 The photos are by Duane Ard.<\/p>\n

As I said, not much drama.\u00a0 Just the way we like it.\u00a0 But if you’re in a mood for the real “wild west” here’s a video of west Texas complete with some wonderful pictures of the scenery and a roundup.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/22132017?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to Gisela Volkert for the link.<\/p>\n

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….well, maybe not quite.\u00a0 But at this time every year we do bring the main herd in to work the calves.\u00a0 Nothing dramatic like roping and branding.\u00a0 We do carry some in a trailer to the vet…a more efficient use of time…for de-horning or castrating. But it’s all done without horses and\u00a0any fuss.\u00a0 You can see Wooz standing by the gate of the pen….she simply calls “whoo whoo” or something like that…and they eventually wander in.\u00a0 I’m standing inside the pen so they understand where they’re going.\u00a0 They need to turn in to me and not go straight toward the camera and another pasture. \u00a0Of course, not everyone gets the “whoo whoo”.\u00a0 This young bull has always had a mind of his own.\u00a0 He’s one of our new British calves and perhaps he’s being protective of his horns and other vital body parts. But only his horns were at risk.\u00a0 He stays intact, of course.\u00a0 And we rounded him up with the Gator and\u00a0a “shh shh” nudged him into the pen.\u00a0 The photos are by Duane Ard. As I said, not much drama.\u00a0 Just the way we like it.\u00a0 But if you’re in a mood for the real “wild west” here’s a video of west Texas complete with some wonderful pictures of the scenery and a roundup. http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/22132017?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0 Thanks to Gisela Volkert for the link.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions\/2445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}