When you envision a cattle drive, you might not know exactly what we mean. Likely it envisions romantic visions of horseback riding, river crossings and lassos. Those visions are definitely romantic, but not accurate the Ortman farm. One of our little secrets is that our cows are trained (somewhat) to come when we call. While this isn't too unusual, we're a bit biased and think our cows are pretty awesome and generally respond very well to our calls of "Come Boss" which has been distorted to a non-word call of "Kah-boss"
The proof, as they say is in the pudding (apologies for the pretty rough/loud audio, this is the best I could do holding my own phone):
This video is a bit of lie. What's not shown is the group effort involved in the cattle drive. While the cows and calves are clearly following P when he calls and leads, C was also making sure the stragglers were coming along in a timely manor and P's dad was making sure the path ahead was ready for the cattle.
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I asked Adam what you were saying when we were out there with you, and he said "Come, cows." Obviously not. Kah-boss is way better.
ReplyDeleteAwesomeness. I am going to try this on our cattle-herding dogs. :-)
ReplyDelete"Kah-boss" also works very well on nephews. I started to play the video and they came running!!
ReplyDeleteWere you riding a horse? I couldn't tell from the video. That would make it a bit more authentic.
ReplyDeleteNo horse involved. That would be pretty awesome, and I'm sure the nephews would be thrilled about a horse on grandpa's farm, but mostly we're a walking, ATV and tractor sort of family. In the video I'm walking.
ReplyDeleteOkay, guys. It has been a month. More blog posts, please!
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