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Re: O/T great story Hugh MacKay
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Posted by Hugh MacKay on January 12, 2006 at 18:08:36 from (216.208.58.112):
In Reply to: Re: O/T great story Hugh MacKay posted by Chris in Washington on January 12, 2006 at 17:33:51:
Chris: I once bought a farm a few miles from my home farm. This was to become the home of my holstein replacment heifers. I soon realized the fences weren't great on this property. It was a dry summer and watering holes for cattle got low. My 50 heifers had just moved upstream to fresher water. In the process they crossed the fence into forest land. We looked for them better part of a day. Finally I went to a neighbor who had a new helecopter and was learning to fly. He couldn't take me up but his trainer did. We found the heifers in 5 min. He then proceeded to herd them out of the forest. That guy was was damn good, he kept the heifers moving, yet never got them running. He knew how to herd cattle with the helecopter. I asked him later where he learned that. He had been hired to do just that somewhere on a large cattle ranch. He told me where at the time, however I've forgotten the state. He said with large numbers of cattle the helecopter was quite cost effective. I could readily see that as he could probably move 3,000 head as fast as he did my 50.
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