High Tech find & Cowboy Tech capture of Roman the 4-H project steer 29 Jan 2024

Roman the 4-H project steer got loose Sunday 28 Jan 2024. The owners asked me to saddle up my mare, Avi, and bring a rope - so I could help search - and when we found him we could rope him and get him back home. Some of the owner family searched on foot, some by car, some on a four wheeler. My horse logged 13.4 miles searching during this first phase of the search. We called off the search about 3:30am.

Search resumed Monday morning 29 Jan 2024 - after a wee few hours of sleep and enough time given for my horse to eat her grain and a good bit of her hay. In daylight we found more tracks but would lose them when the steer travelled down the hard portions of the gravel road. So the owners called in a drone operator with thermal imaging capability - Drew Whelan (517) 442-7819. It took a little less than two hours for Drew to find the steer about a mile beyond where our ground search had gone. Drew hovered his Thermal Imaging Drone over the steer to allow us to more easily find him in the woodlot.

High Tech find was accomplished by Drew Whelan (517) 442-7819. Cowboy Tech capture attempt began by Jack Griffes on his mare Avi.

The 4-H project black feeder steer was in a woodlot - so we slowly worked him out into a soybean stubble field. Steer sprinted - horse pursued but sandbagged by rating the steer too far back rather than moving up where I could catch him quickly. So we ran the whole quarter mile field length. Steer entered a flooded area and I caught him there. Then bit by bit my mare Avi and I worked him over to the road and onto the stock trailer - giving him many breaks to keep his stress level from getting too high. My horse logged 7.9 miles during this second phase of search and capture.

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