cowdogdays13…6th Annual Cowdog Production Sales – Preliminary Results

My goodness it was hot today.

But we worked cattle, cowdogs, cowdog pups, ate Burger’s Smokehouse ham (yes, I know ham is not beef!), BK Bakery gourmet cookies, and various other good things. We had fun despite folks getting sunburned. Ran the sprinkler in the corral to cut the dust.

Sale results are not all in yet since the TX folks and a few OK folks could not make it today. But, so far the yearlings are $3,500 and  the 4 month old started pups $1,300.

Keep the Texas folks in your prayers.  They have a lot of cleaning up to do to put their lives back together after the tornados.

I truly enjoy being around good people! Tomorrow, we will be back at it. Getting folks acquainted with their new cowdogs and cowdog pups. Going to be HOT…pace yourself, right?

Thank you to Julie Brown of Progressive Cattleman magazine for being here this afternoon.

Now, I’m headed to the shower to wash the “bark” off!

 

cowdogdays13…Sale Cowdogs…Smoke

Smoke’s data is in the post below.  Smoke’s greatest working love is riding drag or flank when moving cattle.  He has a very hard bite.  He is easy to handle, friendly, great around people.  He does have an e-collar on in this video clip.  He does not require an e-collar to use him.  I just have several females in heat right now and their scent is all over the place and he was getting distracted to mark every female spot on the way to the corrals.  When he is at work, Smoke is all business.

Smoke at Corrals

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cowdogdays13…6th Hangin’ Tree Cowdog Production Sale

WEATHER Forecast Friday, Saturday, Sunday (as of Monday) - slight chance of intermittent rain (20-30%).  Lows? mid 60′s.  Highs? low 80′s.

Bring your rain gear.  I am going to go ahead and set up a pen inside my hay barn just in case we need to get out of the rain for the cowdog demonstrations and schooling time.

The food and people loafing area will be at the machine shed so you will have a place to be out of the rain when we take breaks.

Feel welcome to bring your kids and grandkids.  It is a family activity.  Don’t worry about spooking the cattle or cowdogs.  That’s just a part of it.  Things don’t always go perfect in the pasture or corral anyway on regular days! But if things get “western” please take “oops fixing” into account while I work through the situations.

Lodging info is on my website Contact Page or on my blog.  If you need ”close to me towns” with lodging:

N = Columbia, Kingdom City…SE = Rolla… SW = Eldon, Lake of the Ozarks…W = Sedalia, California…NW = Boonville

My cell phone is 573-659-5971.  If you cannot attend but want to possibly bid on a cowdog I will be able to help you with calling in for the sale.

General order of the day on Friday.

11:00 AM – Registration

12:00 noon – Cowdog demonstrations will begin.  I will start with some of my regular working cowdogs and we will work down to the litter of pups.

Smoke (the oldest cowdog in the sale) has had a dental cleaning, his teeth/gums are in good order.  No extractions or problems with jaw fractures.

All the cowdogs and pups are sound and have no injures that they are recovering from.  Nothing sells unless it is totally and completely sound.

All cowdogs and pups are current on vaccinations.  I will be giving a general dewormer this week too (regular monthly deworming).

4:00 PM – Demonstrations will be completed and we will determine the sale order of the cowdogs.

5:00 PM – Sale of cowdogs and pups.  A base price will be listed for each cowdog and we will bid in $100 increments.

This is not a rapid, gavel pounding auction.  Low-key deal.  And, we take time to let the phone bidding people participate in the bidding.

cowdogdays13…Reference Cowdogs – Hawk, Ducchess, Gabby

Hawk is the mother to Ducchess, Gabby and Liza.  Ducchess, Gabby and Liza are daughters of Bert.

Ducchess’s pups in the sale are Dick and Harry.

Liza’s pups in the sale are Bess and Fran.

Gabby’s pups in the sale are the black and black/white pups pictured in another post below.  Just scroll down and you will find them – 7 of them.

Ducchess, Liza and Gabby’s pups are all sired by Oscar.  So these are strategic targeted matings to see if the genetic results are consistent.  So far, to me the quality of these matings is outstanding.  Very consistent in the various aspects of what I want to see in a cowdog.

Hawk, Ducchess, Gabby

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cowdogdays13…Cowdog Pups in the Sale

Liza’s two black female pups are listed in the sale…Bess and Fran.

I’ve had the litter in the corral 2 times now with some weanling heifers.  Here is a clip of yesterday…day #2.

The pups have been working the sides, behind, and around me and back to the back of the heifers.  Two 20 minute sessions of letting them just mill around the heifers.

Liza and Gabby are littermate sisters out of Bert x Hawk.  They are full sisters to Ducchess.  The sale data and reference cowdog data are in two separates posts here on my “blog”.  Just scroll down and you’ll find the info.

Liza Pups with Hfrs.

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cowdogdays13…Sale Cowdogs – Yearlings Harry & Dick.

1. 1st day working 5-9 yr. old cows in the corral (some mud, rain)
2. up close
3. crowded
4. sorting
5. away to me
6. come by
7. get ahead
8. get back
9. watch
10. heading/heeling
11. down
12. learning patience
13. listening
14. no e-collars

Dick is the black cowdog.  The blue cowdog with the green collar is his mother – Ms. Ducchess.

Harry (low res. file) is the blue merle cowdog with the blue collar and his mother is Ms. Ducchess.

Dick #1 Trimmed

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Harry Trimmed

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cowdogdays13…Sale Cowdogs and Pups

NOTE:  Dam and sire information is listed on Reference posting.

UPDATES:  

Saturday, May 11th…added video clips of Dick, Harry (see separate posts above).

Sunday, May 12th…added pictures of Socks, Sydney.

Monday, May 13th…added pictures of Dick, Harry, Smoke.  Added a Smoke video clip in a separate post.

                                             04/24  Head:

Name   Sex  Born    Color        Wt.   Heel   Sale Cowdog   Dam x Sire

Harry  M    01/2012   Blue Merle  50   50:50  Sale Cowdog   Ducchess x Oscar

Dick    M    01/2012   Black         51   50:50  Sale Cowdog   Ducchess x Oscar

Bess    F     01/2013  Black          xx      -:-    Sale Cowdog   Liza x Oscar

Fran   F      01/2013  Black          xx      -:-    Sale Cowdog   Liza x Oscar

Pup #1   F  02/2013  Black          xx      -:-    Sale Cowdog   Gabby x Oscar

Pup #2   F  02/2013 Black           xx      -:-    Sale Cowdog   Gabby x Oscar

Pup #3   F  02/2013 Black           xx      -:-    Sale Cowdog   Gabby x Oscar

Pup #4   F  02/2013 Black           xx      -:-    Sale Cowdog   Gabby x Oscar

Pup #5   F  02/2013 Black           xx      -:-    Sale Cowdog   Gabby x Oscar

Pup #6   F  02/2013 Black           xx      -:-    Sale Cowdog   Gabby x Oscar

Pup #7   M 02/2013 Black           xx       -:-   Sale Cowdog   Gabby x Oscar

Sydney    F 03/2012 Blue Merle   48      -:-    Sale Cowdog   Highball x Bert

Socks      F 10/2012  Black          xx      -:-    Sale Cowdog   Diamond x Sly

Smoke   M  xx/2009 Smoke Merle 55  30:70  Sale Cowdog   Confidential

Note:  Cowdogs listed as “Sale Cowdog” are subject to change, for example…due to injury from time of posting to sale date.

Statements and announcements made on the production sale day take precedence over information posted prior to sale day.

No cowdogs or pups will sell with appendix or permanent registration papers to any association or club.  The pedigree information is considered intellectual property and sole proprietorship of Tammy’s Cowdogs.

These are the Gabby x Oscar pups…6 females, 1 male.  Pictures taken – April 23, 2013.  First day wearing collars and being tied.

Dick

Harry

Smoke

Grp. with Gabby…(l-r) #1 to #7.

(l-r) #1 to #7.

Pups and their mom – Gabby.

1st day with collars and tied.

#7 Male

#7 Male

#6 Female

#6 Female

#5 Female

#5 Female

#4 Female

#4 Female

#3 Female

#3 Female

#2 Female

#2 Female

#1 Female

#1 Female

Socks

Socks

Sydney

Sydney