FIND, CATCH, AND LEAD OUT A COW

[The Old Man]

  A couple of weeks ago I got a call to go find and catch a cow for a fellow. He said she was in a deer lease and had been since November but they wouldn't let him try to get her until deer season was over. Since season was over they had tried to get her but couldn't keep up with her in the brush and he'd heard I had dogs. I told him we'd give her a try so we set a time to meet, we got there and he had drawn me a map showing me how his place and the deer lease laid. He cut the fence in a corner of the deer lease onto his place, and told us she was usually in the far corner from here, He said maybe you can drive her back through here, he didn't think she could be roped in there where she was. I turned a couple of dogs out and told him we'd be back after while. We went looking for her, got over to the far nw corner and didn't locate her so we started to the east the dogs went to trailing rather than winding (I'd already had to tone them back as they had winded some cows on the next place over and gotten to them before I knew they were out of pocket) anyway they bayed her just off a big old pond there in the brush that had beaver holes all in, I could barely pick my way across the dam. They'd also dammed up the overflow making a big slough or swamp and dogs were bayed just off that in thick brush. She was a Charolais/Angus looking cow heavy bred, and the instant she saw me she broke but didn't get far and was bayed again repeat the process a couple of more times. I had saw Adam a few minutes before and figured he heard the dogs and would be set up on a small opening to the west where we'd came from, I got her punched out of the thicket right in his lap, he pitched a rope on her. I put a rope on her as well and dallied her up real short so she couldn't get behind me, her being muley I kept her right at my stirrup, Adam got behind her and we lead her a little over a mile to the pen. We were real careful not to choke her or stress her since she was so heavy bred, she cooperated real well, the old fellow was happy, he said you'all have her leading like a show cow, all's well that ends well.  It don't always go that smooth.

[t-dog]

That’s a good read. Sounds like you and Adam have that chemistry together that sure makes things flow as opposed to working with someone for the first time. Those deer hunters though, man they sure can make themselves look foolish. Just as easily as y’all did that, it could’ve been done much sooner and then a neighbor wouldn’t have had to worry about that ole greyish/blue cow being mistaken by a trigger happy city slicker for a deer. Depending on what she was bred to, the calf that she likely got over in there to have in hiding will probably be about that color too. We all know cattle are high dollar right now.


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[The Old Man]

  Yeah, we have done lots of that sort of thing together and he is good savvy help, was right where I thought he'd be given the circumstance.

[Cajun]

Real good work Clue. Those Yaller dogs did a fine job. Have you ever tried a Plott on cows. Reason I asked, a fellow I know told me he used to run young Plotts on cows to get them started.

[Slim9797]

That was a fun read for sure. Cool to hear a “cow hunting” story. Not much of that left to do right here around my house.
 


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[NLAhunter]

Heck yea that kinda stuff is about as fun as hog hunting to me

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[The Old Man]

  I haven't used a Plott on cattle but a long time ago I had one get loose a time or two while gathering cattle at home that came to me and worked. He didn't display as much get ahead or lead as the Curs.
  And yes, it is just another sport that I enjoy.
  We gather and or catch cattle for people pretty regularly, especially when it is in the seasons cattlemen are gathering to work and sell them.

  I had an accidental breeding a while back Plott/BMC and I have kept one to piddle with. Just want to see what he'll do, Pretty good lookin OL'pup, actually looks like Slim might have raised him and given him to me. I have been going to take some pictures of some of the dogs and when I do I'll include a pic of him.

[warrent423]

  I haven't used a Plott on cattle but a long time ago I had one get loose a time or two while gathering cattle at home that came to me and worked. He didn't display as much get ahead or lead as the Curs.
  And yes, it is just another sport that I enjoy.
  We gather and or catch cattle for people pretty regularly, especially when it is in the seasons cattlemen are gathering to work and sell them.

  I had an accidental breeding a while back Plott/BMC and I have kept one to piddle with. Just want to see what he'll do, Pretty good lookin OL'pup, actually looks like Slim might have raised him and given him to me. I have been going to take some pictures of some of the dogs and when I do I'll include a pic of him.

A little hound hybrid vigor never hurts once in a blue moon, especially if you are using them to find cattle

[t-dog]

That plott/cur pup has something going for him or you wouldn’t still be feeding him. In all my years I’ve only ever seen a handful (4-5) of what I considered “great” dogs. One of those was a plott/cur. He was a heck of a dog.

As for looking like he came from Slim, that’s Slim’s Sketch blood. Some of his dogs now carry a little of our dogs blood. I had a Bayou Cajun Plotts VDNA (Visual DNA) test done and Dr Mike confirmed that there is border collie in there. It might have a baring on their look in the future lol.

I would think the plotts would be the easiest hounds to get consistent stock dogs from just because of how they were developed, but they be too far removed from that to matter by now. I would sure think it would help in the heat having the hound in there. I’m not knocking breeds, just a personal observation that the hounds prey drive supersedes his self preservation instinct a lot of times. It can be a good thing and a bad thing.


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[warrent423]

The right hound blood has always been a foundation in making cur cow dogs down here. Old timey, leggy, Redbones and Leopard hounds have always been at the top of the list. I have met some boys here in Tn that breed plott crosses. Way too much bark to breed out of them in my opinion. They do excel at treeing bears though.

[make-em-squeel]

good dog wk..