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Horses.

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Anything from beef producers, backgrounders, stockmen, to feedlot owners.

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Livestock ranching is the breeding, and raising of animals, these animals are usually used for meat purposes and raised in large herds. Ranches are more commonly found in the western parts of Canada and the United states. These livestock operations generally use large amounts of grazing land depending on the size of the ranch.

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A drover, shepherd, cowboy, stockman, herder, etc.

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Severe overgrazing, the extensive use of barbed wire, the expansion of the railroad and the real nail in the coffin: the Great Winter of 1885-86 where thousands and thousands of cattle perished from cold and hunger.

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20,000 plus acres - Barbara Moncrief

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Shepherds blamed the cattle ranchers for overgrazing the land they need to graze their sheep on. The cattle ranchers blamed the shepherds from grazing their sheep where their cattle are supposed to graze, either before the cattle have grazed there or after. Other reasons were that sheep were the ones who were able to overgraze grasslands over cattle because they can graze so close to the earth, unlike cattle who can only graze to a few inches above soil-level.

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There are many good and bad causes that people see associated with cattle ranching. Here's a lost of both:

Good:

- Healthy cattle (less sickness with extensive management and natural diet)

- Healthy grass (good grazing practices induce vigorous grass growth)

- Low labour costs (cattle are feeding themselves and not being fed)

- Minimal manure management (Mother Nature takes care of that on the pastures)

- Environmentally friendly, as manure and urine goes back into the soil to help plants grow, and grass makes cattle fat and happy

- Range cattle produce beef that is healthy for people to eat, containing lower and healthier fat than feedlot grain-fed beef.

Bad:

- Overgrazing (always comes with poor grazing practices)

- Deforestation (which is synonymous with what is happening in South America)

- Requires fencing to keep animals in and to keep animals out of riparian areas

- Higher methane production with cattle grazing on pasture versus being fed in a feedlot

- Grass-fed beef can be something that people don't like, preferring grain-fed over grass-fed.

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In the American west.

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Pastoralist

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The use of slave labor on farms did not hurt the small farmer. It was the taking over of the small farmer's land that hurt the small farm industry. The large landowners, for various reasons, were able to squeeze out the small landower.

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Alaska and Texas

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they could afford the most modern machinery.

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It is called a finca or cortijo.

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They had to possess extreme confidence and mastery skills, because it was not easy to be a cowboy. Cowboys in the 19th century, and even today, had to be jacks of all trades. The skills required are far too numerous to list, but here are some examples. Cowboys needed to have basic woodworking skills in order to mend fences, buckboards and wagon wheels. They had to be able to work in extreme weather, hot and cold. They needed a basic knowledge of animal husbandry to care for their animals. The ability to treat minor, and sometimes not so minor, injuries was also an invaluable skill due to the paucity of doctors. A good memory was needed in order to travel and locate animals, navigating by landmarks, verbal instructions and hastily sketched maps. The work requires a high level of physical fitness. Contrary to popular belief, marksmanship skills were neither important nor widely held. Firearms are heavy, especially when traveling with most of your worldly possessions on a horse. Revolvers were most commonly used against varmints which, often as not, were as likely to run from the sound as be hit. Probably the most important of all cowboy skills was the ability to improvise and adapt. There was no written job description for cowboys, only ever-changing conditions and tasks.

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It means to amass or to gather. In cowboy talk, it means to go out on the range or to the pasture and gather all the livestock and bring (drive) it to a central location (usually a corral) for whatever purpose (de-horning, vaccination, market, etc.).

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Concentrated Roundup painted directly on green portion of the plant should probably do it. 2,4,D will work also. 1 ounce to 1 gallon of water, spray till wet

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A maverick cow. Any unbranded animal is referred to as "slick". Maverick is a term mostly used on steers or bulls that have quit the bunch or are wily and hard to capture (how they remain slick!). Rarely a cow will behave this way, mostly she'll stay within eyesight or earshot of her herd. Maverick cows teach their habits to their calves and become problematic when its time to gather them.

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Few of them survived the branding

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He became the biggest lamb dyer in Texas

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Several resources for locating a genetics professional in your community are available online at:

http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/info=consultation/show/finding_professional

You could also buy a hot pocket.

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It heralded an end to the open-range cattle industry, and created more friction between open-range ranchers and the sod busters, otherwise known as the farmers because the ranchers wanted the land that the farmers were turning over for crops for cattle grazing. Of course barbed wire wasn't the only thing that affected the cattle industry. Over-grazing, the near-extinction of the very cattle that were herded back east for their meat, the completion and expansion of the railroad and the ever-increasing population of farms, towns and cities in the West had an impact on the cattle industry.

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