GeneralLeeGirl

If I Fall- Doc Walker

Hahaha... Yep, cows'll do that to ya! lol We live on a big, steep coulee bank and there's a fair-sized creek at the bottom. We were sorting our heifers, choosing which ones we wanted to keep and which we wanted to sell. Anyways, there was this pretty little red Angus cross heifer. Beautiful conformation, good mother. But she was nuts. She tried to take us a few times. I told dad there was no way i was keeping her around but he was determined. So he put her in the keeper pen. The first one in that pen. So she was crazy and riled up to begin with so she was running around looking for a hole. Then finally she just up and jumped the 7-foot plank corral with a good foot or so to spare! And she was gone! Well, she went down into the coulee and we went looking for her. Then about 15 minutes later, I got a call on my cell phone from the guy who lived across the coulee saying he had one of our heifers. We went over there and sure enough, it was her! It took her 15 minutes to get across the coulee, where it takes me and my horse closer to an hour and a half to get across! My dad decided then that maybe it wasn't such a good idea to keep her around... LOL Yeah, the whole BSE situation had a huge impact here. Most of it was just the media playing it up to be a big pandemic, but it had a gigantic effect here. The boarder being shut didn't help matters at all either, since most cows sold in Canada wind up in the States. Back before BSE, everyone and their dog had a fairly large herd of cattle, now I really gotta think who's still in the business... I wrote a speech on the short and long term effects of BSE in Alberta this year for 4-H. And I also presented it at some local beef producer meetings and toastmasters and I just got an invitation to present it to the Alberta Beef Producers. (ABP is the biggest cattle group in Canada) I've had people cry at the end. BSE has NOT been fun... But you just kinda take the tractor another round and hope it gets better...

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The word 'Angus' is kinda a curse word for anybody who ain't an Angus breeder! hahaha. I love my Shorthorns! but I also like a little bit of Angus influence in my cows. You're not the first person to give me hell bout that! lol! The Shorthorn breeder I worked for this fall said that he would've fired me a long time ago if he knew that I ran ShorthornXAngus cattle! But I got him back at a show back in January when my blue-roan shortyXangus crosses beat-out his full-blood shorthorns in the pen of three! LOL. And I won't let him hear the end of it either... The cattle business is a dying thing up here. Ever since BSE in 2003, the whole cattle thing has gone head-first into the tank. At FarmFair this year, there were about 500-700 head of cattle there, a far cry from the close to 2000 head they used to get. Those of us still in it are runnin a bit of a debt and only take the best to show hoping we can sell em for some big bucks. It's kind of a sad situation, but that's what the Alberta cattle industry is today. But someone's gotta keep the tradition going! I got a show coming up here in April, Peace Country Classic. I'm gonna take a pen-of-three replacement heifers and a couple cow/calf pairs. Hopefully I'll do not bad and sell the replacement heifers at the sale. I can't wait! Get to see all the usual crowd and get up at 4 so i can get my cattle washed before the rush and then sit around and BS and drink coffee til the show! There ain't much better! lol

the RCMP lol

Well it is Chet you're talkin about...

Boss Hogg!!! LOL

Yeah I know eh? Popcorn? *Offers popcorn bag to TD*

Is it on CMT Canada?? Or does anybody know?? I hardly watch tv anymore... I'm outta the loop! lmao

*pops some more popcorn into her mouth, holds out bag to others hanging out in the booking room* Anybody want any? I got lots! lol

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Dandelions (They are a very misunderstood flower... rofl)

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Let Chet be Lord-o-Outlaws for a spell... make for some good entertainment! lol

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Ok. So I'm still stuck in 1998 and have dial-up internet! WOO-HOO! NOT!!! Don't y'all just hate it when your in the middle of downloading something very important off of the internet or uploading the latest chapter in your Dukes Fan Fic and then suddenly, *dramatic music* your internet cuts out!! Making you want to scream, cry and possibly throw your computer out of the nearest window. Also something that makes the super slow speed internet even more lovable is when it cuts out on you when your on MSN or on Chat, in the middle of a very intense conversation about your latest failed FanFic upload, caused by your crappy dial-up internet! Such a pain in the you-know-what! So is there anybody else out there with spastic internet? Or am I on my own... Maybe it's just that I live in Canada and it's the cold that's slowing it down... lol

Oh my... *shields eyes*

chicks dig it (by chris cagle! lol)

Aww, poor Brian! Hee hee, Carma sucks eh? lmao Way to go MaryAnne! *walks over to booking desk to give MaryAnne a high-five*

Hey Val! Another cow-shower person! lol I have been in 4-H for 8 years now, in the local beef club. I've had three projects most every year. (Market Steer, Yearling Heifer, and Cow/Calf Pair) I own a heard of 100 head myself of fullblood and commercial Angus and Shorthorn cattle (I'm not into the purebred business... not yet anyways! lol). I have had the opportunity to work for some local Gelbvieh breeders at FarmFair International in Edmonton for the past about 5 years. And while I'm there I also kind of free-lance and show cattle for some Shorthorn and Hereford breeders when the Gelbvieh's don't show. And I got to go to Calgary for the World Angus Forum with some local Angus breeders and work with them down there this summer and show some of their cattle. That was such a cool experience! There were so many different breeders and cattle from all around the world. You couldn't get another animal in Spruce Meadows! (And that place ain't small! lol) And I also got to go with the same people down to Agribition in Regina a few times. I'm also starting to show my own cattle in some local shows in the area. Starting small. I want to get involved in the Aces Wild tour next year, showing steers and yearling heifers on a show circuit. There's actually quite a bit of money in that... if you can win! lol.. If not, it's kind of a money pit.. lol. Your right Val, this definatly ain't the place to be makin money. But I do it cause I love it. I love leading my animals round the ring and showing them off, and possibly walking away with a big banner. I love grooming them all up all nice and fancy. And the things you don't learn! Like boning a calf's legs! I never heard of it til I went to FarmFair and saw a little Maine-Anjou steer with hair 5 inches long on his legs! It blew my mind!

haha.. exactly! *throws gearshift from 4th to 5th*

Can sure as hell try! hahaha!

Oh darn... wouldn't that be terrible? *winks*