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2009
May
2009
The great cattle drive… and chase
May 9th, 2009 at 07:28 pm by Shari Thomas in Around the Farm, Family Cow, HorsesTwo horses, two sometimes cowboys, a cow and calf, and a pickup truck made this whole 1l2 mile process look like we were herding cats.
Our ranch horse, Neche, wasn’t really wanting to work today. This is the first time she’s been asked to actually work, as in help herd a couple of cows. She’s spooky and sometimes prefers to avoid us. We think she was a hard broke horse, that never got much love and attention.
Cindy and I spent a couple hours working her from the ground in the round pen this morning. That included a good brushing, and playing “follow the pellet bucket”, while we waited for our neighbor. read the rest of the story
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