Well it's a sure bet that I'm the closest thing to a cowpoke that you folks are likely to run into, and from where I sit ebbie has won this pot hands down, except she's a girl and who's gonna ever believe a mere little slip of a girl when it comes to such things as cow-tippin?

There's several ways you can tip a cow. The most common way is to bulldog it. That involves runnin the cow (steer, generally) at a pretty good clip and sliding out of the saddle on to the shoulder and neck of the running animal with your heels plowin dirt in front of you and your arms twistin his head down and around, hopin his body will follow his head and he'll sorta tip over. Most steers got handles growin out of their heads to aid and abet the cowpoke as he does his twistin.

Another way is called headin an healin. One cowboy (or cowgirl) will drop a loop over the steer's horns (They're at the head end of the animal, bein the same thing as the handles you use for bulldoggin) and t'other will swing his loop from the side and behind so it goes under the steer as he steps forward and catches his hind legs. That's the healin part and if you both make a good catch and get a good dally on yer saddle horns, then you can spur yer horses in opposite directions and that's the tippin part.

The third way is only good for small cows (called calves and heifers and yearlins and such) and you gotta hev a horse that is smarter than the average cowboy, or the animal either. If you can get yer loop on the calf (or whatever) and yer proceedin along at a pretty good pace, you can shift yer weight back and into your right stirrup and yer horse will take that as a signal to stop and when it does, thet calf'll go ass over tin cup and you got yerself another tipped over cow, albeit a small one.

Now, if y'all had paid attention when I left my little story about Patsy here a couple days ago you'da knowed about all this. Y'all haven't bin listenin to yer Michael Martin Murphey, have ya? Ya need a little Cowboy Logic, I reckon. After all, if ya couldn't tip cows, what'ud cowboys be good fer?