Step One: Convince the girls they actually CAN exit through the gate that’s been closed to them all winter. Step Two: The first real test for mommas and babies… can you please stay together as you transverse the ranch yard around tractors and sheds and granaries and gas tanks and trailers and… ? Step Three: …
Author: Carol
WANTED
WANTED: Person to help take care of multiple ranch horses. Must be willing to do deep grooming. Must not be squeamish with blood and bugs. Must know horse anatomy. Must be able to read horses’ moods and temperaments. No tools required, except for perhaps a pair of pliers and/or a pair of flat rocks. Former…
Introduction
I did it. Here’s my newest possession… Of course, I bought her right before the cold, wet weather… so I had one small ride on her and then she was hidden in the garage. Eden and I finally got to go again, even if I did have to wheel her by big mud puddles and…
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It’s been trying SO HARD to rain or snow here… Further south they’ve accomplished that, but not here. We’d love some rain, but it’s refusing to fall for the most part. I think I’ve measured .07″ in the past few days. It is Grey. It is Cold. Which just means we’ve put our winter clothes…
List
It’s begun, that long list of Things To Do Concerning Cattle on the calendar. Almost every day for the next few weeks we have a plan already. Vaccination, pouring, mineral shots, weighing, AI preparation, and turnout of various groups. It could be overwhelming if we look at it all… but, we will take it one…
Mead!
Since my sister returned from Texas, we have been plotting to make a special little item! Years ago, she took me to the Texas Renaissance Fair. She made me a costume and EVERYTHING! It was a BLAST and I’d go again in a second… of course, along the way, we had a taste of mead….
Not So
(Part Two) Two bags of IV fluid, antibiotics, electrolytes… and the calf lays on my lawn, in the warmth of the afternoon sun. We alternate a bottle of milk replacer with a bottle of electrolytes a couple of hours later… hoping the fluid will kick his gut back into gear. As the sun sets, we…
Scourge
He won’t say it. But I see it in his eyes, in his touch, in his gruff, “You’re all right. You’re OK.” His rough hands rubs the black hair on a (not so) small nose, petting the calf like a dog, and dust rises to the top of the hair and coats his hand. The…
#plant16
With the weather turning nice, the guys have been working on fields getting them ready for #plant16. (that’s the twitter hashtag for farmers working on planting this season’s crops) The fields have been plowed, disced, leveled, and now… here comes the alfalfa and oats! The seed is delivered on pallets, and Vernon unloads them. The…