Trail Seeker

A couple of days ago a fellow put some cows into the field next to mine, My little heifer, thinks the ewe and her lamb that accompanies her where just not enough company and she got eager to introduce herself by pushing a hole in the fence and made herself at home. She is halter broke, but she knew enough that if I got close, that would mean she would be roped and hauled back home.

Recruiting my good nieghbor (who runs cattle) and his polaris and the heifer's halter ropes we set off to get her. First we tried to pull her out of the herd, but that soon proved not worthwhile, so we ran them along the fence in order to circle them over to the gate where we could single her out and get her on the road, but coming around the first corner, the gate going into another field was not there and they took a left rather than a right and towards the gate we wanted.

As we sped in the polaris, with me in the back, we hit a big hidden hole that tossed me into the air, fortionatley I landed back in the polaris. The other field is very wet, over grown and a creek runs down it. the cows, not being used to the field would not cross the creek and we were able to circle them around. This time, with me in the back, we thought we could race up to them and single her out and run a lasso on her, the first couple of attempts failed, but finally I got her and a rope burn too. She sure liked her new friends and sure to find a way back over from my field that we ran her up to my niegbors and let her loose with a couple of his steers. Even with the steers, you could see her looking off into the distance as her new friends resumed grazing.