Ride the Wind Ranch (Kathy, Marty, Joe and Ben; the horses, Longhorns, bunnies and flower) wishes you all a wonderful 2012 ! For us the New Year started as a great ranch day; being outside, feeding the animals, fixing a couple of rails on a fence and enjoying a beautiful sunset.
Our Texas Longhorn cows know us so well and as all animals, they are very familiar with our appearance (height, way of walking etc.). Therefore they know right away, that it is us, if they see us walking somewhere. But yesterday when we went to fix a couple of rails on a corral, the cows startled and run away. It must have been, that caring the long rails on our shoulders made us look like aliens...?
Talking about cattle and recognizing voices: when they have a baby calf, they sing lots for the calf to recognize the mom's voice, so later they can call each other.
We only have a few calves and keep the yearlings in a corral until they sell in spring, so they naturally get very familiar with us. Of course, we always talk to them too. Nice story: we once went to visit a rancher, who bought a few yearlings from us over a year back. When we were standing close to his corrals, looking at all his animals and talking, the three yearlings of ours came walking to the fence, they recognized our voices after all that time !
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