A fun thing that happen years ago working cattle.

On of the fellows wrote about how we have things that seem serious at the time, when working with livestock, that are real funny years later.

An example of this would be when my current wife was first married to me, is 14 years now. It was in late fall so it was cool but not frozen yet. We had several days of heavy rain. So it was real muddy. I had a pen of replacement heifers that I had shut out of a small pasture so the ground could dry up. Well some how they got the gate open. They where having a blast running around in the mud. Making a real mess in the pasture. The walk way back to the barn was a muddy mess a foot deep with mud and manure. I tried to get the heifers back in by myself but they where having too much fun running around to go in the yard/pen. So the wife came out to help me. She had a pair of slip on rubber boots. So we get the heifers just about back in the lot. She hollers out she is stuck in the mud in the walk way. I tell her to just stay put and I would chain the gate and come back to help her out of the mud.

Well she wanted to go before I could get back to her. You have to picture this. Her standing in knee deep mud with both feet stuck. When she would try to lift her feet her boots wanted to slide of her feet. Well she got to thrashing around some and lost her balance. So I look around at her just as she stands straight up and is windmilling her arms like she is trying to fly. About then she falls flat over on her back just like those old ice tea commercials. The bad thing is she is not in the swimming pool. She is in knee deep mud and manure that was just churned up by the cattle. She hit hard enough I saw mud splash up. She even buried her head a few inches into the mud/manure. She has long hair that is almost to her waist. So lets just say she was a real sight. I was having to bit my tongue as I was helping her up and out of the mud. Mean while my Christian, never likes to cuss wife was cussing like a sailer. LMAO

So to this day we all tease her an asked her if she wants to help sort the cattle. It still brings a few cuss words. LOL

I will see the picture of her hitting that mud the rest of my life.

LOL

That's funny-And priceless!

I can see it now. "I'll be right there Honey" SPLAT

JD, you could write a book with all your stories. I like your posts. Ron Mn.

That is too funny.
Kow Farmer (Kurt)

Reminds me of one time I had a highschool boy helping me sort sows out of a knee deep muddy lot one spring. He ws chasing those sows around out there and they WOULD NOT go through the gate. His slip-on rubber boots got sucked down into the mud and out of them he came! He simply kept chasing after those darn sows in his stockin feet. THEN the sows decided to go through the gate and promptly tromped his boots completely down into the mud. We found them about a month later when the mud dried some. He and I stll laugh about that to this day!

That may have well been me. G-son was helping with cows a few months ago, had one just about run over him and tried to go over a gate. He swung at her, hit her on the pin bone and broke his hand. Neighbor worked in college for a dude ranch out west. Christian owner forbade cussing- except for when they were working cows. Sil was helping chase cows around in the mud a few years ago. While trying to head off a few calves from escaping, his boot stuck, and he stepped out of it to keep his balance. His next step was into knee deep mud. So he bought a set of rubber boots. His feet still come out of them...Daughter tried to head off some heiffers in the barn last spring. I had just cleaned the barn the day before. I have told her more than once that USDA spent some four million dollars on a study that concluded that manure was slippery when wet. She just proved their theory was right. And the latest, just to prove that cows also want the benefits of technology. She laid her cell phone on a post so she wouldn't lose it out of her pocket. A calf on the other side of the fence ate it.... Such is the life!!

LOL that is funny!!

I have a barn that stays wet in the spring that I try to avoid using that time of year. One year I had to move the bull out of that pasture and I had no choice but to run him through the muck barn into the chute. I absolutely could not work him with slip on boots, I kept getting stuck in the muck. Finally, in a fit of anger I stepped out of the stuck boots and worked barefoot. I found I was muck faster without the boots. Never got stuck at all. Got the bull loaded up barefoot After the anger wore off, my feet started to feel gross. Washed them off in the very cold stream and off to the next pasture.