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Well I was able to get on the field this afternoon . The buffalo 🐃 were quite inquisitive over the whole operation
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The chisel point on the front row sure made the old 100 go in the ground
 
You sure do have a beautiful office view!!

I see an ear tag on one of them critters. Are they livestock, or are they tagged by Nat'l Parks or something?
 
SV, Local Bison got loose and had people all upset near me. About 75 of them they said tore up fields and round bales.
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SV took them about 3 weeks to get them rounded up. Years ago over near our dairy farm on East Brook road near Walton a guy had a herd. Went by there last year the fence is still up . Neighbor up hear in Westford had a herd of elk until recently. Told me to much red tape.
 
Something about them I have always loved I like their heads and the way they are shaped and they move like lightning it?s amazing how something that big can move that fast
 
Hey sv. Whats your elevation. Thought I was going to be headed your direction but can"t know. Nuff said. RB
 
Yes, good eating. We used to stop at a great diner near Oneonta NY that offered buffalo burgers. That's what we always ordered. Sadly the owners retired and the diner closed.
 
Below you made a statement I must challenge. (not a flame at all) you indicated tame bison. There are none to call tame. In my experience on the safe side of a fence, or car door, and with them (both owned and wild) within a few feet, all of them should be considered wild animals. I witnessed several encounters that could have turned into injury or death. One was a Biker that threatened to kill me with a M1911 for not driving into a herd of 20 so he could drive (somewhere) to avoid them pushing on his front tire as they went past. My wife and I were in Yellowstone, behind a Class A RV and had no where to go. Many have been killed by owners, or just being stupid in the outdoors. Jim
 
I worked on a Buffalo farm part time when I was young. I fed them round bales in the winter I was always amazed how fast they could run. They are good eating, it?s been years since I had any buffalo meat. I helped load a trailer load of them once, and once was enough. Everything went well except for one young bull who must have known where he was headed. I tried to close a large gate to keep him in an area where we could try and get him into the chute again but had to climb a high board fence to get away from him. He put his head down and ran right through the 2x6 hardwood board fence and broke off a horn doing it.
 
We had buffalo loose around here years ago. I worked for a buffalo farm part time and the owner had given some buffalo to the local Indian tribe. (Onondaga). After a few years they had a fair amount of buffalo and a bunch of them got out. They roamed around here for a while, some of them ended up quite a ways away from their home and we never really heard what happened to them. The state was involved at that point, maybe they were tranquilized or something harsher.
 
On one of my many motorcycle trips through Yellowstone I was stopped in the road with a long line of cars and nowhere to go. A big Bison was walking down the edge of the pavement on my side going the opposite direction. My wife was on the back of my Goldwing and my buddy was with his wife on his flashy looking trike. I told my buddy that he would probably go after his bright colored trike as opposed to my dull looking black Goldwing. Thank the good lord he just kept on walking by us like he was on a mission.
 
Great photos! Glad to see you in the fields some. Nothing going here yet, but drying fast. The main problem is it's still too cold, most mornings the ground has a frost crust on it yet. Supposed to be cold starting Sunday through Tuesday then warm up. No rain or anything so should be dry enough even on my place to work by late next week. Some of the sand guys could maybe start soon. First 60 deg day in the forecast for next week.
 
As a young man we used to fly out to Catalina Island CA. One of the channel islands off the coast of Long Beach. There are a herd of bison out there that have been on the island for a long time. The small airport, and some of the restaurants in town used to serve buffalo burgers, and buffalo steak. They were pretty good.

We would go hike out there, and always kept a wary eye on the wild buffalo. I have some pictures, but they are old style chemical exposures from the 80s.
 
Tame buffalo? A guy here raises them. He said, you can't herd them with a ATV or a pickup (if you value your pickup), you herd them with a large tractor.
 
According to some local lore, the buffalo on that island are supposed to be decendents of the herd that "Scotty" Philip put together in the late 1800's. He is credited with saving the herd that lives in Custer State Park. His herd was the rements of the ones roamed the plains of the Dakota's.
Some of them were sold to a movie company in the late nineteen teens, transported to California & put out on an island for filming a movie there. They are supposed to still be there. DNA studies done by SD Game, Fish & Parks indicate they have the same genetics as the ones in CSP. SD GF&P operates CSP. They still sell buffalo every fall to help support the Park. The sale also keeps the buffalo from "eating themselves out of house & home".
 
Supposed to rain today and possibly snow next week . It?s a bit wet here but it?s not making clods I figured I?d open it up and let the wind and sun work on it a bit . I?ll cultivate probably one more time maybe twice then harrow it and drill
 
They are good to eat . I loaded some on a trailer one time and they would shake the earth they would run so fast
 
I am from Iowa, never been around a buffalo. We went to Yellowstone, everyone stopped for the buffalo in the road. Cattle will always move for a vehicle, so I slowly went around them and planned to move the lead one with the minivan. He looked in my window, blew snot on me, but moved over.

I heard later that is not a good idea.
 
While in Long Beach, I always wondered what Catalina Island was like, it looks huge from there. Never knew that there were Buffalo out there.
 
I don?t if I?d say better but it?s definitely good stuff it?s all the rage amongst the hippie organic crowd
 
Nice soil...envy, envy, envy. On the last picture, just a bunch of little babies aren't they.........cute picture.
 
Are there 2 people on the tractor? 1 driving and the other photographing? I think I remember that you are in SE Idaho? I have a brother in Boise. Your cultivator looks like a copy of the old Graham Hoeme or Jeffrey.
 
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