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Goose87
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« on: December 15, 2020, 02:19:14 pm » |
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I have a book on Louisiana cowhands and particularly the Grey Ranch and it’s history here in Louisiana, in the book they mentioned having a native type of horse much similar to the cracker horse, mustang, marsh tackies, I want to say they called them pessle tail ponies, the ranch hands eventually bought good blooded quarter horse and thoroughbred studs to turn out with the wild herds to breed up durable working horses but with a little more leg underneath them, I know it’s off topic but there was some pictures in the book of these big wild soggy marsh cows walking for miles across the marsh on 2x12 planks on post about 3-5’ off the ground to make driving them easier on the hands and the animals and mounts, they would lead a few old cows up to the planks first that knew the routine and the rest of the herd would follow, it mentioned that some of those old cows lived into their 20’s and got to where they knew what time of year it was getting to be and started making the drives all on their own, I forgot what diseases came through but most all of the original grey ranch herd was killed off
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