| Title: | Equine Notes Conference |
| Notice: | Topics List=4, Horses 4Sale/Wanted=150, Equip 4Sale/Wanted=151 |
| Moderator: | MTADMS::COBURN IO |
| Created: | Tue Feb 11 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2080 |
| Total number of notes: | 22383 |
This past weekend about a dozen of us cowboy wanta be's
got the chance to do a real cattle drive. This was not
for fun but it was anyway.
We had to move a friends 175 head about 6miles across
several pastures to their fall feeding grounds. across several
"washes" , a few creeks, and around other grazing cattle.
All went well for me, but my friend had a horse that
was completely green to cows. His horse waited till they
were on the bank of a creek and did a front shoulder roll.
After cleaning the mud off all were a little shaken but
not broken.
It was great seeing wide open spaces with no power lines,
cars or houses. There was some hugh antelope, that did not seem
to mind us at all. Even a big gray crane did a fly by of us.
Happy trails,
Carl
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| 2050.1 | What kind of Antelope? | CSCMA::SMITH | Tue Aug 27 1996 09:55 | 7 | |
Antelope? Are these imported antelope or domestic antelope (deer)?
Just teasing, since csc32:: is in Colorado, this really caught me by
surprise.
;-)
Sharon
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| 2050.2 | 'lopers | BSS::MONTVILLE | Sharon Montville | Tue Aug 27 1996 10:41 | 10 |
To be technical about it, they aren't antelope - at least not in the
same family as African antelope. They are pronghorns, but usually
called antelope or 'lopers. I never get tired of seeing them, and I
see them almost every day on my way to the barn.
Colorado also has 2 different kinds of deer - mule deer (muleys) and
whitetail (same as back east).
Sharon (also in Colorado, who someday would like to do one of those
catle drive "vacations")
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| 2050.3 | PEAKS::OAKEY | The difference? About 8000 miles | Tue Aug 27 1996 13:58 | 13 | |
Ok, since you started a fun on horses on note, this gives me an excuse! :-)
Last weekend I spent both days at the Colorado State Fair helping (where I could
-- I'm a rank amatuer) the Mountain View Belgian stable show their hitches and
carts!
Got to ride on a two and four horse hitch, and helped setting up just about
everything from their single horse carts to their six-horse hitch!
Neat horses to work around; gonna have to get a bit more agressive about saving
for a couple of my own.
Roak
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| 2050.4 | State Fair | BIRDIE::ROY | Wed Sep 18 1996 15:36 | 4 | |