EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Went and helped Chance this morning gather some cattle, had a great time and learned quite a bit.  It was HOT, when I left it was 102 and the heat index was 110 and they were loading out cattle.  Thanks guys and look forward to the next time.

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i didnt know ya'll had that much open country in east tx  ;D are they shippin, weanin , or just movin this time of year?

Stripping and shipping today....

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Wouldnt be a cow working without "donk"....
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Good pics Matt.

I was sweating to death at 3:30 this morning, I can imagine what it felt like after the sun came up.

Mike, I did maybe a fraction of the work the others did today because I can't take the heat any more and I am still hot right now.  I don't know how everyone and their horses and the dogs made it through today without a heat related injury.  I am pretty sure it was the hottest day of the summer.....

Great pics Matt, did you get any of the dogs working?


It was a little extra hot last night.. :-\

No but Crystal did, hopefully she will post em up.......

Bryant,

   I am pretty sure Crystal got some good pics of the dogs working.

I had a good time, but damn it was hot. Started the day at 4:00am, and unsaddled the old man at 7:30pm. I was still reading 99 degrees at 6:00 this evening.

I will post some pics tomorrow after I cool off. :)

That is sure a long day in the heat....I told Mike I was thinkin of calin y'all on our way out last night figurin y'all was on the road.

Just uploaded some pics from Mandi's camera.

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The Marlboro man  ;D
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Mandi, you take good pictures lady!  Subjects are not always the most appealing though  ;D

Matt,

I think I took like 536 or 540 pics. I have some pretty neat ones, and many I need to crop and edit to make some wall hangers. It's darn sure not my abilities, it's my camera taking up a lot of slack. I like oddball subjects, I think I have 20 pics of various cows that caught my eye, and several of those were in the process of bawling. There is just so much emotion in those pics of bawling cattle. I got some great pics of Crystal and her daughter Tristan - it looked like mother/daughter bonding that in my imagination would likely be something to spark some memories for Tristan later on. My favorite of that run of pics didn't make it onto the ethd site, but I will crop and edit and give Crystal the hard copy to do what she wants with.

There was a man there helping named Charlie that caught my lens more than anyone or anything else. To me, he was just cowboy. He looked the part and darned sure worked the part. My camera loved him and I tried to capture candid shots of him working. Pure Cowboy.

I'll go through and do some editing and maybe post up some of my favorites from the weekend. I'm not one much for action shots, I like to play with the more off the wall stuff.

Cheers!
M

Did Crystal train that Donk to help himself into the ice chest too?  funny!

That is what I like about em soo much!  I was just funning about the "subject" earlier cause you caught my ugly mug  ;D

Yeah, I knew you would not like seeing yourself as the subject of the camera. The problem is that some people just photograph well. Unfortunately for you, you are one of those people. My camera likes you because the pictures usually turn out well.

I was really referring to my strange taste is photos because I would hate for someone to be following this post hoping for some good action shots. I like the different type of photos.

Cheers
M

great pictures...        them calves look good. 

Great pics, thanks for posting, that donkey has it figured out and that is a super good looking yella dog in the back ground of the other pic, it could pass for one of Craigs dogs.

Great pics Mandi, are they from a point n shoot or the dslr ?

dslr

Matt, its never too late to consider a life in porn.  Hogs, dogs and porn....that's a wicked fetish.

Huh?

Richard that would be the life huh!?  I am glad Mandi's camera likes me because I have not found many others that want anything to do with me  ;D

DSLR-Digital Single Lense Reflex

In my terms it means....fancy, high dollar camer vs a cheap pocket model  ;)

The camera  ;)is smarter than I am- I got it now!

Awesome pics! the "strangest" shots always turn out the best ... especially when the subject doesnt know its being photographed.

I sure dont miss those hot summers in the cow pens ;D I wouldnt know what to think if I had to get out and spend a few hours on a horse in this heat!

Good looking donkey lol I remember riding one named Billy Jack when I was about that little guys age after my shetland went on to greener pastures.  He had a cross on his back but was far from an angel  :angel:

Donk is as much an angel as I have seen for taking care of that young man the way he does. Beats all I have seen,  especially   for a donkey. I have a standing offer to buy him from Cattle as soon as he can do without him.

Cheers
M

Well guys hope ya'll had a good time!!I have several good pictures of the dogs working will try to add them latter!! I sure enjoyed ya'll!!
Matt 711 came back heavy bred so I bought her back and will put her in with your herd!!LOL
Chris 735 lbs brought $105 a pound!! I will take that all day!!
Mandi the Donkey still has a brain freeze from all the ice he ate!! ;D ;D

Sweet I can lease her out for ranch rodeos and make a killing  ;D

Good as long as you and Chris are on my team!!
You know since Chris was teaching my cows bad habbits by running up on the fence from them they just wanted something to eat!

If I had a gun on me, I would have had to write a check for #711. Would have dropped her in the pen, and drug her out for the buzzards.

735#....Told you I would go broke buying out of the pasture. ;) As for me running up a fence, I think ole Buttercup had my number. You ever seen a fat boy move as fast as I did yesterday?

Matt,
    I think once word gets out that #711 is out of the ranch rodeo rotation, Chance might have a few more teams enter up this year.

Great pictures!!!

With the heat index, the Houston area was the hottest place in the nation Sunday according to the news!  I guess when its time to work cattle its time to work cattle but I think my hat of choice would have been one of those umbrella hats I see old people gardening in!!! Yall are crazy!
Circle C, Bad cows are a real motivator for this fat boy also! Its funny how they can make us reach speeds we never thought we were capable of!!! Don’t ever under estimate us fat guys people!!! ;D

Nija I feel like Chris has ruined my cow she has always been a bluffer but being he ran from her I think she might go ahead and commit to hitting someone!!Will you or Chris go over and fix her problem!!
She needs a psychiatrist but ya'll can cure her of her problem!The main cure is to just stand there and try to speak to her in a nice low tone voice!!

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Cheers
M

Chance,

   You had a few that need some talking to, or maybe they are just too friendly ;D  One of them was hell bent on spending time in the saddle with me. I bet she tried to jump the fence and ride with me no less than 6 times.

I just did not see a problem with from where I was standing!!

I will be happy to give it a try as long as I can use a stick or a baseball bat as a back up!!! They have been pretty good attitude adjusters in the past! lol

Just hope you don't strike out that could be bad!!Even if you was to bunt her that still could be bad!
I had broke  a 1" pipe made for a spray rig over a cows nose while I was spraying them for fly's on a concreate pen!! She stated with me knocked me down started slipping and slideing all over the top  of me on the wet concrete I started crawling to the fence as she was hitting me and then she starter whipping me up against the soild wood fence so I cralwed back to the center of the pen and my uncle came and got her off me!!Everyone was hollering for me to get out of the pen but there was no chance of standing up with her knocking the fire out of me!!They said why did you crawl back too the pen I said it was hurting me against the fence she was just hitting me in the center!!

On second thought, I will pass.  ;D
When I was in school I worked some weekends at the Navasota Sale Barn. It didn’t take long to figure out that the bull alley was the best one to work!! Those cows would get you when you didn’t expect it and they really do hurt!!! lol

Did you work for Mr Sonny Moore!!You know you are going to get screwed when a cow buyer shows up in a cadilac with a cigar in his mouth!You will never come out on top I asure you that!LOL

We sure liked dealing with Kenny Richardson at the Navasota and Industry sale barns. Hated to hear it when he passed a few years ago.

He was sure a good guy!That was odd what happen to him heck he was not that old at all!!

LOL. No but I have done some hog hunting on his property in Washington County when I was in my 20's. And yes I had permission!
I work for a very large black guy named Blue. I had a blast and would have probably worked there for free!

So can I asked what happened to Mr Richardson?
             

They foung him dead in the alley way at the barn said it was a heart attack!!Now this happened a while  back 8-12 montha ago!!

There was a trucker who hauled cattle for Sonny he was a big black man!!He told me that he had to pick up some cattle for the prision in huntsville!!He said while he was there the Blue Bell truck was backed up and was dollying Ice Cream in the prision he said he ask the gaurd you mean to tell me ya'll feed the prisioners Blue Bell the gaued responed with yes he said whats it going to take for me to get locked up I buy off brand Ice cream because it's cheaper!!
I thought it was a funny story!!

Chance,

    I know news moves slow in the piney woods, but Kenny died Dec 2007.    I think the tin can and string is old technology.

You really ought to get a tv, or radio, or at least a phone so that you can get your news a little faster.  ;D

Someone should go ahead and tell Chance the "mullet" has long been gone too.

After I posted that I though you know I think it has been longer than that!!
But you are right cause Greg came and picked up some of my cattle in 2007 and it happened right after that!!

2007 huh? I sure didnt know that but it dont surprise me that he died in that sale barn though.

CWARD- any chance i can get a started cow dog from you?

You sure about that? It might trash on a hog! ;D

Mr. Martin I do not sell dogs and I do not get rid of anything that I like!!If I like it then it will die here if I don't well it will die here!!! ;)
I do give a few dogs away each year but there are very few started dogs!! I cull hard and don't like scattering dogs all over the place!!

In the video you sent me what breed of dogs were those working!!

They have been known to do that but we never mind takeing the time out of our busy day to tie a hog then finish working cows!!

Even though I told Crystal one day we were going to go on a cow hunt and she had something to do and ask how long we would be!!
Well when she called at 2pm after we had started a 6am we had done tie oh about 11 hogs!!I asured her after the last one we were going to go find the cows and we did!!But I got in trouble she said if you were going to find cows why did you take the catch dog and vest!!Them some bad cows!!LOL

cool story and pictures
  thank yall for sharing with all us
       Dexter

CWARD- I understand about the dogs.         The dogs in the video are catahoula. I got one here and there through the years. I don't keep but 5 or 6. One of those dogs in the video over heated the other day. she wondered off, layed down and never got up again. I'm still upset at myself for that, I should have made them go get water And rest a few minutes ( rookie mistake ). Another one of those dogs I got from Chris Shivers, And she worked really well, but a man came along and made me an offer I could'nt refuse so i sold her ( another rookie mistake ). Now im kinda in a bind for a good cow dog. I've Got a few freebies to try for a while, if they don't work out i will give them back. Just keep me in mind. Thanks.                     

One day I gotta meet this BoarNinja. He sounds like me and him might be kin-folks.

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he proly wont have time for that he is to busy hunting with the HDL girls  ;D

If you was my kin I would dis own you for selling a good dog! lol ;D

Check with Chris's step dad Buck. He has some sure enough good ones and he may have an extra pup. Just dont be selling that thing if he gives you one. ;)

I don't know Chris, but I need to get in touch with him. I really learned a lesson selling that dog. That was a big mistake. Hey Ninja, Your more popular around my house than you might think. My wife and I were joking around the other night when she said "Martin you need help", I looked at her and said "baby you need a little BoarNinja'in"   She looked at me like I was crazy. I think she thought it was a new love making position.

LMAO!!! Sounds like you keep your wife as confused as I do mine!!!

I think most of us can look back in regrete to a dog we had to sell for some reason or another when we were young! I know I have. Lesson learned!!! Good dogs dont grow on trees do they?

Good luck on the dog search martin!