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What is Another name for cattle round up?
Cattle drive.
What was it called when ranchers rounded up their cattle in 1866 and drove them to sedalia Missouri?
A cattle drive.
The terms cowboy and cattle drive were used?
They used their knowledge of herding cattle and their horses to round them up from the home-base on the ranch, then moved them from the ranch to the place that they are going to sell them. Cattle drives always take more than one cowboy to complete. For instance, over a 500 head of cattle usually took about 10 horsemen to drive from point A to point B which often was 50 or 100 miles away.
Cowhands had to know many skills to round up cattle?
Yes they certainly did.
What does herding dog mean?
They help farmers round up sheep and cattle.
What is the most important fact in the cattle drive and why?
The whole point of the cattle drive is to get large numbers of cattle to the nearest railroad town. To keep profits up it was important to keep casualties to a minimum, meaning getting every individual bovine to the destination, at a decent body weight and healthy. Although cattle are herd animals there are always some that may want to stray. All efforts were made to round up any stragglers. Crossing rivers could be dangerous and sometimes a cow or two could drown.
How do you prepare cattle for the cattle drive?
They have to be rounded up in order to herd them. Rounding up involves gathering them into a large group (cattle tend to spread out over a large area in small groups of 5 to 10 animals) so that they can be put in a corral for when the drive will need to commence.
In which John Wayne movie does he get kids to help hom round up the cattle?
"The Cowboys" (1972).
What was the lowest position a person could fill on a cattle drive?
The lowliest position on a cattle drive is the person riding drag. Drag is a position requiring little skill. He's at the back of the heard and lives in the dust stirred up by the cattle.
What occurred during the Great Western Cattle Trail Drive?
to go up north
What are back up horses for a cattle drive called?
The horse herd was known as a remuda.
What is important to open range ranching?
No fences, and all cattle must be branded so come round-up time, the cowboys know which cattle belong to which rancher.
