does anybody ride their cattle?

Ixy,

Although I am an eccentric Professional Bull Riding fan, I have been on a bovines back since I was a bored kid in the summer on the farm long ago, and as I remember it wasn’t for long….certainly not eight seconds…

But one of the fellows that works steers in our group of modern animal powered forestry rides his ox back into the woods particularly uphill regularly. I think this photo is already in the gallery, but here it is again. There is another photo of a fellow on a bovine on this site too.

This fellow – Kyle Hager will be featured on our upcoming Rural Hertiage on RFD-TV show to air in the week of July 6th. I will post an exact time when I find out exactly when it airs.

Hi,

check

http://www.razyboard.com/system/morethread-junge-gespanne-zu-verkaufen-ein-trainingsbericht-2-zugrinder-411995-5465631-20.html

this young woman trains cattle for riding and draught in Switzerland.

I don’t know if anne has an account here but I think she has. But she had a baby a few weeks ago and wasn’t much online.

@Ixy 8918 wrote:

out of interest…I am just starting riding my first steer now – i have sat on him for very short periods before, purely to get him used to the idea of me being on top before he got big enough to really complain about it. Now I can mount and sit up there and he doesn’t mind. 😀 before I ride him untied and like, move somewhere, I need to find someone trustworthy to scrape me off the floor and take me to hospital if something goes wrong 😉

i’ve got a long history in horseriding, used to be quite good, but have had a long break from that – in a way though i’m glad because this is so different – it definately feels weird not to have a big reassuring neck in front of you…

I think Bivol, or someone else from your side of the pond, posted a thread several months back with some videos of some youngsters riding steers or young bulls and at least one of a young lady riding a bos indicus bull of some sort, I think with a saddle. I think they were in Central or South America. There was also one of some guys riding Texas Longhorns with Mexican style saddles & wearing big sombreros. I think they were in Oklahoma.

I can’t recall if it was all on the same thread or not. I’ll look for it and see if I can find it.

BTW: when I was a kid I use to show market steers at our county fairs and FFA shows. After we finished showing them we often would ride them and/or drive them for a few weeks before they went to the slaughter house. Been quite few years, but it seems to me that they took right to it.

Ivy,

There is a entire web site about riding steers I don’t know the name off hand but they have some pretty cool pictures on it. Should not be to hard to find if you search for it.

Doug

http://www.premierlonghorns.com/RidingLonghorns.html