Yeeep gotta love it. Seems evey spring I'm walking beat up fence lines though the thick stuff to find gaps downed trees and missing cows fun times and this is about the clearest part of this fence line . In about a week their probably gonna be a dozen or so cow dogs and half as many horses involved. It's almost like clock work at this point

Hope you are well compensated Wolfie. Hard work is good for a young man.

I have about 300 yds of that kind of stuff to maintain out probably 30 mile of fence and I think it's terrible.... im glad I'm not running cows in ur neck of the woods. My hat off to u though.

Lol the old man might slip me $100 for gas and what not but it's fine

I have been there, done that, with and without the dogs. Its usually an exciting day. Some of the wild woods cows would make good rodeo stock. Blood letting usually occurs on one side or the other. A team of good cow dogs are amazing to watch how they deal with uncooperative bulls.

We had three ropes on a big old wild syco (mentally disturbed) wild woods cow one day and she still managed to pen one of the ranch hands against a truck. He had broken ribs with internal bleeding that took a while to heal up, but we got her loaded that day. Be careful.

Dave

I've gone on all the escaped cow hunts i ever want to. The worst hunt lasted 11 days and went from near Sydney, Ohio to near Covington, Ohio, a distance of a little over 28 miles, if you flew straight between the two and likely hundreds of miles as the scared, chased cow rambles. That cow lost a few hundred pounds over the 11 days it was loose. My friend Dennis, who the cow belonged to and I, lost some weight too.

The best advice I can give to make it easier to retrieve a lost animal is to feed train all your livestock and domestic animals to a feed call. The call can be anything you want as long as it's consistent and you enthusiastically use it when making a production out of feeding your animals. Animals, like people, are food greedy and it makes even very dumb animals somewhat trainable with food.

For a few years, my friend James had serious problems with dead ash trees on his neighbors property falling on and smashing down his fence. His cows got out a lot. All of his cattle were trained to "Sook Cow!" and would come running if they ever heard you yell it. They would also follow if you carried a small amount of feed in a bucket, giving them the occasional mouthful. We walked them back from at least 4 miles on one occasion.

I have feed trained ducks, geese, quail, peafowl, guineas, chickens, pigeons, mice, rats, dogs, cats, goats, cattle, doves and pheasants to a feed call and it works on all them if they're loose, or if you just want to make it easier to catch them in a pen, or bring them in sight in a large pasture.

Keith

Used to know a guy that had 2 sections that looked like that, he would turn them out in it in the spring then round them up in the fall, which was not a fun time, some of those cows got downright wild not to mention mean and nasty only to ready to take after a man on foot, and working them out on horseback was near impossible

But watching a couple of well trained cowdogs work them out of there was a downright thing of beauty

There was a good reason I kept a gun close to hand when working there though

In order to be a super puncher one should stay on his horse. If you git off and start punchin cows sooner or later one will punch back. Don't ask me how I know this.

I usually find a high headed brindle that never got tipped and square up to her as soon as I hit the ground b/c who wants to be taken out by a mega cute lil black whiteface with long eye lashes? Talk about shame in her game, yuck.

Dale Brisby won't even share the kinda advice I can give ya if you wanna go day wagin!

There's places down here an old woods cow can go a horse can't. That's where the dogs go in.

In Florida and South GA they call them cracker cattle, pineywoods in AL and MS. They're all woods cattle to me. Dad had 60 head of them in the 70s, his dad put up the first fences to keep them in and his dad like everyone else just had cows in the woods.

I've always liked the old woods cattle. Not much to look at all rangy and bony, not as good of eating as Angus or shorthorn but probably the toughest SOBs and best mothers of any I've ever been around. The mamas will flat stomp a mudhole into anything that messes with their calf.

How bad are the ticks down there wolfdog?

Not many trees out here but no fun walking fence off the top of some rock pile where the snow has just laid it all on the ground for 100 yard + stretches'. I did work a place as a kid that still had a half mile of old split rail from when it was home steaded.