Chasing A Wild Cow Miles Through The Mountains!

Good morning folks. Welcome back. Another beautiful day. So, the grass we stockpile for grazing our cows in the fall and winter, it can get a little low on protein when it gets to this time of the year. So, one of the things we've got to do is supplement our cows' protein with some protein cake. So, I'm going to bring some cake over to one of the groups of cows who have grazed down their pasture. They're starting to get their pasture grazed up. They're actually our cull cows. We're going to move them over into the feedlot here, probably tomorrow, today or tomorrow. And then, we'll feed them in the feedlot, fatten them up a little bit, and then probably sell them. But, we've got a couple guys who are interested in them. We might sell them a little sooner than that. He's ready to go have some fun. Get some cows. Can you see her at all? Hi. She was just right here. We saw her on the road when we were coming by, but she took off. Let's see if we can track her down. They just went around this corner, so we caught up to them, but they just keep taking up. So, it's just kind of wild. We'll see. We might just have to bring her this way. I'd like to get in front of her and bring her back. I don't know if we're going to be able to go over to one of the cows. Either way, it's going to be a little bit. We'll get her. He popped off the road and came down into the trees. So, I'm going to stay on him so we don't lose him in the trees. My dad's going to go ahead and try and get in front of him. And we'll probably try and bring him back the way we were. I just want to make sure I can stay on their tracks here. There's their tracks. There they are. That's good. I was starting to second guess myself. Because their tracks turned around in here. It's really hard to tell if they're elk tracks or cow tracks. If they're a day old, if they're right now. But, we were on the right side. Hopefully, they'll be a little more tired now. We ran them for a little ways. Maybe once they're tired, they'll cooperate a little better. It's not a guarantee. But, I don't know if you can see them. They're just right here. Heading the right direction now. So, yeah. This cow just got left behind when we were rounding up. Some of these wild cows will go off on their own. And when you're rounding them all up, they just evade you one way or another. So, we never got her. And she just showed up and people call us about her. Or we see her when we're coming up looking for stragglers. But, yeah. It'll be good to get her home. I think she's the last. Fingers crossed. I think she's the last one left up here. We haven't heard any news about any other ones. So, it's usually a good sign. Alright, cow. Just relax now. Look at that. A little grouse. And she's running. I had them on this ridge. But, this hunter spooked him. I don't know. Somewhere up here. I can't find their tracks. Yeah, they were up on top, but they were running down. Coming this way? Well, to the... That way? Southwest. Yeah. We've been... Just trailing her. Through the trees. There. She's actually right there. I haven't seen her in a few miles. But, hopefully, she'll get tired out. She doesn't really like to slow down, does she? What's that? A couple more miles? Yep. Three or four miles of running. Then they'll slow down. Yeah. She's kind of headed the right way now. Yeah, that's a lot better being able to see her. Good boy. Tired yet, cow? Good grief. I don't know how far we've gone, but it's been miles and miles. We lose her. Track her down for miles. Find her. She runs. It's pretty fun. Fun. Quotation marks fun. Well, my dad and I split up. I went back to get the pickup because he was going to bring him up to the neighbor's corrals. Then, when I was on the way up there, I saw him on the road. Then, we were going to try and get him back in here because they turned around. So, I came back. The cows were headed up that way. I rode up to meet him. Couldn't find him. Then, when I came back here, the pickup was gone. His horse was here. So, I'm guessing he got him in the neighbor's corrals. I went up to pick him up. I don't know. There's no seltzer, so we're just riding around blind. But, yeah. It's literally been all day chasing this one ornery cow and two calves. I don't know what time we got up here. 9 or 10. It's 4.30. So, yeah. Six hours chasing one cow. It's alright. It's just how it goes. It was painful to get back there. Yeah. Did you end up just going to cliffs or what? Yeah. We just went around in circles and finally, I got her out in the open where she couldn't get away from me. Then, I decided, well, let's go that way. I'm tired of going in circles. Yeah. I went up here to meet you and cut him off and put him in here. When I got him in cliffs, he kind of gave up. Did they? Yeah. Then, I had no trouble getting him in the corral or nothing. They went in the corral, right? Well, zero problems. Weird. Just trailed him up to the corral. That's weird. Huh. Oh, it's a good thing we got her. Yeah. No kidding. Well, we ended the day chasing that cow. Eighteen and a half miles. Six hours. It's a pretty kind of long day. The horses are tired. The calves were really tired. The cow, she wasn't yet real tired, but we thought she'd be tired a lot sooner. Anyway, thank you guys for coming along. Really appreciate it. Hope you all are doing well. We'll see you in the next one.