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A good night-horse was highly prized for its night vision, temperament, and its ability to bring animals under control when a "rush", known elsewhere as a stampede, occurred at night. [3] The standard team of men employed to move 1,200 cattle consisted of seven men: the boss drover, four stockmen, a cook and a horse-tailer. Store cattle were ...
Pocket knives may be used to castrate and/or earmark an animal, to bang cattle tails or in an emergency to cut free an animal entangled in a rope or horse tack. [6] Specially designed and cut for riding, oilskin Driza-Bone coats are used during wet weather.
Decreases the water infiltration rate of soil. (Results in more runoff and erosion [17] [19] as the soil absorbs water more slowly than before) [note 3] Tilling the soil results in dislodging the cohesiveness of the soil particles, thereby inducing erosion. Chemical runoff. [17] [note 3] Reduces organic matter in the soil. [17] [note 4]
Unguligrade animals, such as horses and cattle, walk only on the distal-most tips of their digits. Digitigrade animals walk on their distal and intermediate phalanges; more than one segment of the digit makes contact with the ground, either directly (as in birds) or via paw-pads (as in dogs and cats).
30,000 cattle and sheep were driven from Wales to London each year. [7] A weekly cattle market was founded midway between North Wales and London in Newent, Gloucestershire in 1253. [7] In an Ordinance for the cleansing of Smythfelde dated 1372 it was agreed by the "dealers and drovers" to pay a charge per head of horse, ox, cow, sheep or swine. [8]
Regardless of ability, Black men were constrained by having to negotiate with White men who might refuse to respect the authority of a Black trail leader. [2] Denied opportunities to become a foreman or range manager, many Black cowhands trained White counterparts, with others settling land with their own cattle. [2]
The California hide trade was based on the export of hide, horns and tallow during the early nineteenth century from around 1810. [3] Rancheros (affluent cattle farmers) and their vaqueros (cowboys) cared for free-ranging livestock along the California seaboard with the help of a Native American workforce. The cattle were not only the source of ...
The fat covering the back of a live animal or a carcass, especially beef cattle. The amount of backfat on an animal is often used as a metric for estimating yield before it is slaughtered. [2] backgrounding The preparation of young cattle for living in a feedlot by getting them accustomed to confinement facilities and processed feed. [5] bale 1.