Herd Management Quotes

To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

You can't expect to see calves running in the field the day after you put the bull to the cows.

Two Million Wild Horses

Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made.

My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.

The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification.

I have no affinity for cows. I mean, they're cool.

If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment.

The second purchase was my ranch, Mockingbird Hill. The third purchase was Longhorn cattle.

The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here.

The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber.

My Longhorns are registered and I am a member of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association.

Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Canada. Because this is a dairy cow, they're all individually tagged.

Perhaps most important for nomads was the belief in the symbiosis that existed between wolf and humans on the steppe. Wolves were an integral part of keeping the balance of nature, ensuring that plagues of rabbits and rodents didn't break out, which in turn protected the all-important pasture for the nomads' herds.

You get a checklist, and then you just sort of ride herd on it. It's just a few items on a single sheet of paper.

I now have great color sprinkled throughout my herd.

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.

Deer are as plentiful as chickens on a farm.

I have three cows, and I'm looking forward to more in the future, so I'll have a little herd.

You always know how many horses are in the herd. It's just a question of how long it takes to get them into the barn.

I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.

We're all outriders out there, and what we have is all these large number of tasks - that's the herd; that's all the cattle - a whole bunch of individual, hundreds if not thousands of projects at any given time ongoing that we're trying to complete. So we're trying to keep the cattle herd, keep it all just going in the right direction.

This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.

The cows have ID numbers. And we should be able, throughout the investigation, which is ongoing as we speak, to be able to track that cow back to where it came from initially.