we found out that really we did not need to round them up, over time we would just call em in when they heard us dumping the feed and hey in to the feeding bins, sometimes they would follow us back to the barn yard when we were out in a truck checking on the heard to make sure none were injured or anything, they all followed us back to the barn and stared at us when we got back to the barn hahahaha it was so funny

i loved bailing hey and straw

stacking them in lofts

now they do not do that much anymore, they just pack it in one huge roll

yeah famillar .....I had 2nd cousins that were dairy farmers....they are the worst...when they need milking they are waiting at the door...

omg @Groot i have something funny to tell you , well it was hilarious to me and my dad lol

if you miss your alarm....which was rare ...the mooing will wake you.

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my dad would farm the land around the pasture , he would rotate crops each year and the years he planted field corn, after harvest he would put up an electrical fence and let the cattle out to eat all the fodder and left over cobs the combines missed, it helped fatten them up without costing anything, well ...... lol one day

as the cattle were out grazing in the harvested corn field, one of the cows there got curious about the electrical fense, my dad was sitting on the swing on the porch looking onward, she approached the wire causiously and was sniffing at a distance, then she decided to get really close and she LICKED IT HAHAHAHAHAHHA she bolted back and bucked and ran in circles

my dad split his sides laughing, she stood back and stood there for almost an hour staring at the electrical fence bilwildered

I've been woken many a night to retrieve cattle that simply walk thru a fence and eventually you have several wandering along the country rode until someone call to let you know cattle are out.

when they were dropping calves, a few we would bring into the barn if it was cold out before they were about to drop a calf, a day or so after it was born, i would sit at the base of the fence on the outside so not to disturb mom and calf, i would stick my face in the fence and the calf would sniff my nose then try to lick my nose hahahaha it was so neat

hahahaha @Groot that happened many times to my dad with his cattle

my sister had a smart horse who figured out how to open gaits hahahaha

we finaly got that resolved and on april fools my sister ran up the stairs early one morning yelling, dad dad the cows are out, my dad without looking outside ran down stairs put on his jeans and boots and about to run out the door and my sister yelled APRIL FOOLS , i was like sis you are an ass for that lol

did you ever have to help with the birthing...I mean with rope around your wrist, a hand winch , block and tackle etc?

yes omg

up to my friggen shoulders!

tho our cows were naturally tall and large, at times the breeder bull stock would produce a unusually large calf that would get stuck and we had to do the rope and pull and it is tricky to not pull to hard where it dislocates joints of the calf nor prolapse the cow's uterus

my dad would keep this in mind when picking out breeder bull stock from our vet, to not get a bull to large where the calf would be too large for the cow to birth

right, and the hooves don't tear the uterus.

yes

all the above stuff yes

then the medicinal stuff you put in a cup to dip the umbelical cord area on the calf so it doesn't get infected

looping that rope around the snoot or hooves was tricky while your face in in there ass.

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yes and the cow is in deep distress mooing and crying lol i felt so bad

i was like hang on sweety it will be over in a flash , omg i would get so emotional lol i was crying with the cow

oh and since and i todl you since the cattle were 1/12 hereford , some of the calves still had horns in their DNA , my dad was trying to breed that out of them so they would not injure each other and the pain they suffered when dehorning the calves, but when we had to dehorn a few omg it was hell

we had to dehorn them when they were under a few weeks old or they would have to be rounded up and put in a holder and they are bigger and stronger and more dangerous,

I didn't have the emotional influence ...focus...these cattle are strong beasts and although I loved them they were way more brutal then me. One time I was up past my elbow and the heifer keeled over...taking me with. cousins only laughed.

then we had to use a medicine that would clot the blood on the surface so they would not get infections nor bleed to death, ugh it was a painful job on both ends for both us and the calves, and we had to do it before they were weaned because if the scab is still weak it can rupture from the calves crying and in distress being weaned and cause them to bleed to death

I never dehornd.....my uncle used weights to turn them down.

yikes @Groot

well that is another thing , my dad would always research for the temperment of the bull and cow stock

he wanted mainly tame tempered cattle to avoid all that wild mess

the moment one of the offspring would be on the wild side and stir trouble in the heard , he would immediately call the butcher shop to pick that one up lol

it is too risky to have ill tempered cattle in the heard, they will kill you the moment your back is turned

fortunately i never had any ill tempered encouters with the cattle, there was one troubled calf i was attempting to break in for 4-H , it attacked my dad , we sent it off to the market

I was never involved in the culling selection for slaughter or breeding. I never got to do the insemination or anything like that. Transport trucks in and out was never a duty I was asked to be involved in so rarely new other than tags which cattle were someone else or my uncles.