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Posted: Dec 29th, 2004 at 02:43 pm
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just curios does anyone still rope and drag calves at branding time ?or has technoligy taken over this , what used to be almost a social event for the year !
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Posted: Dec 29th, 2004 at 03:02 pm
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We still rope them around here. We have used the squeeze chute every once in a while to brand some steers, but we mostly rope and brand 98% of them.
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Posted: Dec 29th, 2004 at 04:02 pm
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wish people around here still did , but no rather set up panels , drive them in via 4 wheeler ( thats where i come in, left overs from the roudup )
to the pen load them, haul them , work them , haul them back to the same pasture, and turn them loose. I am not the smartest guy in the world but it lookes like you could skip some of the procesess and do it all right there . maybe thats to simple !
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Posted: Dec 31st, 2004 at 12:09 am
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Well we still rope and brand. well we did when we lived on the ranch. and everyone that i know ropes and brands everything. i love it and i wouldnt do anything else. i have worked calf tables and dont like them. we work all of our older cattle in a hydrolic chute. i love working on a ranch and miss it.
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Posted: Feb 26th, 2005 at 12:39 am
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My first post here. Be gentle!
We still rope them around here, too. (Montana and Idaho) I've always thought that branding tables were a terrible contraption. You could lose a finger in there!!
We gather up about 250-300 pairs into a pasture, rope the calves, drag 'em to the fire, brand em, castrate, de-horn and turn em loose to their mamma's. No panels, no 4-wheelers.
Definitely social. Along with calving, it's one of my favorite times of the year !
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Posted: Mar 31st, 2005 at 02:22 pm
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Lots more fun ropin and draggin
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Posted: Jun 16th, 2005 at 12:53 am
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Anyone ever use Nord-Forks to brand with...They are slick...course they cut down on the B.S. side of the whole affair because you need one less person for each Nord-Fork, but they are pretty slick when you don't have a lot of volunteers...at either end.
We still rope, drag and brand here as well.
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diamondn
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Posted: Jun 16th, 2005 at 01:16 pm
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We do not brand any of our calves until we decide which heifers we are keeping in the fall. The neighbors still rope calves and drag them into fire and it is a lot of work but a lot of fun too.
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hhangingh
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Posted: Nov 17th, 2006 at 02:56 pm
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We still head and heel everything no flat @$$ing allowed!
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I'd rather spend 10 seconds in the saddle than a lifetime of watching from the stands.
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Posted: Mar 12th, 2007 at 09:23 pm
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Pannels here need a big crew to rope and drag 200.
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blackbuckaroo
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Posted: Sep 10th, 2007 at 03:57 am
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Can't fathom why anyone would use a calf table!.Big loop dally roping is where it's at!!!!.Even though there's exceptions,there isn't any!!lol.
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landrun89
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Posted: Aug 24th, 2009 at 08:29 pm
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we start in oklahoma and end up in kansas. We rope and drag about 4,000 head a year in the spring. We do gather in the fall but hydraulic shoots have taken over during the weaning. but we run fall calvin and spring calvin cows so we get to rope fall and spring!! norde forks work good, but you can't bum a chew from a norde fork!!!
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loulou
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Posted: Oct 25th, 2009 at 09:00 am
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hai its is nice to see that it still good fore the calves .
i like youre pictures to see frome here in holland .
my dream is to come to kansas and see how they work the cows .
hope u can read my message i live in holland (netherlands)
iam standing at an westerestable but dont have a quarter but a coldblood horse .
hope u will send a message back.
greets karina
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