Hocks

[Baystatetom]

I have had my steers logging everyday for a couple of weeks now and have noticed that everyday at least once one or the other of them is bleeding from the hock. The ice and snow and half rotted slash from previous harvesting is beating them up a bit. So far nothing serious, just scrapes that I don’t notice until I see a spot of blood in the skid trail and then go looking to see where it came from (Luckily it has not been me yet). I can’t think of anything to do about it but figured I would throw out here and see if anybody had a solution.
~Tom

[Carl Russell]

@Baystatetom 39407 wrote:

…… bleeding from the hock. The ice and snow and half rotted slash from previous harvesting is beating them up a bit. So far nothing serious, just scrapes …..

I had a mentor who always said….. “It’s a long way from the heart”!!!!

Blood always looks worse in snow anyway, but I’m sure they hardly notice it. The other good thing is that in snow the cut stays clean, and there aren’t any flies biting much these days either…..:rolleyes:

I don’t want to sound like a hard-ass, but I generally don’t get too worried about cuts and scrapes….

Carl

[Baystatetom]

Your right Carl, I don’t baby them much at all. They have been pulling huge loads all week in the extreme cold, might have softened my heart for a minute there :-).
~Tom

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