Cow Tripping 101
I had a very gentile lead cow, that had a coffee can stuck on it's front foot, and was not a very happy cow!
She needed attention fast, before she hurt herself. The property is over a section and it's to far to the squeeze chute and barn, with her on a bad foot and weighting over 1200 lbs.
So I was just coming to work and I drove to the barn and took my "Billy Cook" saddle and put it on "Skeeter" and "Cow Patty", "Skeeter", and I went to "Suzy Q" the lead cow's aid!
Suzy Q was a high horned cow. So I roped her horns as not to strangle her! Then I rode closer to her to put slack in the rope! Then in the way you swing a jump rope, I put the rope on her right side and dallied off to the saddle horn with the rope and went left, tighten up the rope, which went under Suzy Q's belly and TRIPPED her to the ground! Then Skeeter did her job, and kept the rope tight.
This allowed me to go to Suzy Q and the can came off easy, so I took a pigging string and tied up the two front legs and Suzy Q quite fighting and hollowing, because she knew I was helping.
Then I checked out her foot, and feed her a handful of pellets from my saddle bags and let her go!
WELL THAT IS CALLED COW TRIPPING, CUZ!
I had a very gentile lead cow, that had a coffee can stuck on it's front foot, and was not a very happy cow!
She needed attention fast, before she hurt herself. The property is over a section and it's to far to the squeeze chute and barn, with her on a bad foot and weighting over 1200 lbs.
So I was just coming to work and I drove to the barn and took my "Billy Cook" saddle and put it on "Skeeter" and "Cow Patty", "Skeeter", and I went to "Suzy Q" the lead cow's aid!
Suzy Q was a high horned cow. So I roped her horns as not to strangle her! Then I rode closer to her to put slack in the rope! Then in the way you swing a jump rope, I put the rope on her right side and dallied off to the saddle horn with the rope and went left, tighten up the rope, which went under Suzy Q's belly and TRIPPED her to the ground! Then Skeeter did her job, and kept the rope tight.
This allowed me to go to Suzy Q and the can came off easy, so I took a pigging string and tied up the two front legs and Suzy Q quite fighting and hollowing, because she knew I was helping.
Then I checked out her foot, and feed her a handful of pellets from my saddle bags and let her go!
WELL THAT IS CALLED COW TRIPPING, CUZ!