I have a yellowjacket 12v portable 'lectric fence charger, and a bit of wire.
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Holy Cow, post: 394604, member: 50 wrote: [USER=29]@Kris Morgan[/USER]
"I've found having them cube broke to a strange call is much more efficient, until calving time and then, well, get the rope. :)"
You are 100 percent correct. I keep a little feed in front of them year round to keep them coming to me and my distinctive call. It's that rare need to get up close and personal that takes a rope.
[USER=29]@Kris Morgan[/USER] [USER=50]@Holy Cow[/USER] [USER=11913]@Monte[/USER]
What on God's green earth is "cube broke"?
FL/GA PLS., post: 394679, member: 379 wrote: [USER=29]@Kris Morgan[/USER] [USER=50]@Holy Cow[/USER] [USER=11913]@Monte[/USER]
What on God's green earth is "cube broke"?
That simply means they are broken (like you'd break a horse) to come to a specific and not often heard call for range cubes. They eat them like candy and will run like dogs for it. The trick is most people holler or honk a horn for their cows to come. People still steal cows around here. An old rancher told me years ago to have a call unlike anything they would hear and only use with in conjunction with feeding. So, someone can stop at the feed lot and blow their horn and holler all they want. If you don't call them right, and they don't recognize the truck, they just don't care.
Anyway, that's cube broke. 🙂
But, if they are fed 3 times a week from a diesel pickup, even if the guy has an air horn, they also associate the diesel truck with the getting fed, and will follow a diesel all the way to the base point! Thats where Nate's electric fence comes in handy. I still prefer to lead them away from the base before I set it up. Sometimes they can smell the cow cake in the box of my truck, and thats trouble... 
[USER=379]@FL/GA PLS.[/USER]
Far better to be cube broke than stump broke.
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Here's part of an ad searching for such a critter around Newport, TN.
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"Looking to buy or rent a stump broke calf for a 18th birthday party for my boy and his buddies. Party will be 3rd week in June. No goats.
Sheep considered."
Monte's right about the truck sound getting their attention. But, I've always found they can tell the difference between my truck and most other trucks. Need to get the exhaust system fixed, I guess.
Fellow who works for me some tells a story from nearly 30 years ago along that line. He lived in town several miles from his pasture. Various neighbors routinely told him he had a specific cow who was out wandering along the road almost every day. But, she was always in the pasture when he arrived. One day a neighbor stopped him and told him the rest of the story. He had been in the perfect spot to see the old cow raise her head and look towards the hill top about a half mile distant, then run and jump over the fence to get back where she belonged. About 30 seconds later my buddy appeared in his old car coming over the hill. The old cow knew the sound of his car and knew that meant she might get fed if she was near the feed bunk when he arrived.
I made the mistake of honking my horn trying to make a cow move while in the pasture.... within seconds I was surrounded by the whole herd. Had to get into the next pasture to get away from them. Never honk a horn to make a cow move!
Holy Cow, post: 394683, member: 50 wrote: Far better to be cube broke than stump broke.
Thank you guy's for the education, the Cow (the Holy One) has now caused another blast of ignorance on my behalf.
What is "stump broke"? I know what "choking the stump" means with respect to the lower Mississippi River, but stump broke I ain't neer heard of. 😎
What did the mama cow say to the baby cow?
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It's pasture bedtime...
RADAR, post: 394701, member: 413 wrote:
What did the mama cow say to the baby cow?
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It's pasture bedtime...
That's a good one.
What's a cow that's had her calf..................Decaffienated.
There's this thing called Google that comes in real handy for learning the meaning of unfamiliar terms.
Uh, yeah, I think I'll let google explain "stump broke" to ya...
Google just provided more info than I was prepared for.
According to a retired sergeant in college a stump broke goat was a prized possession in a country or two we inhabited.
Monte, post: 394714, member: 11913 wrote: Uh, yeah, I think I'll let google explain "stump broke" to ya...
two words: Harold Platt
(neighbor kid)
Not the sort of thing one would want to be known for. (laughing hard here)
Holy Cow, post: 394713, member: 50 wrote: There's this thing called Google that comes in real handy for learning the meaning of unfamiliar terms.
OMG! I have heard of playing "Lonsome Cowboy and Virgin School Marm" but that involves a human male and human female. 😮
FL/GA PLS., post: 394700, member: 379 wrote: Thank you guy's for the education, the Cow (the Holy One) has now caused another blast of ignorance on my behalf.
What is "stump broke"? I know what "choking the stump" means with respect to the lower Mississippi River, but stump broke I ain't neer heard of. 😎
[USER=379]@FL/GA PLS.[/USER] I'm not typing out what stump broke is. 🙂 Google it. Try urban dictionary. It's not a good thing. 🙂
