This photo was from Wednesday amid the cold and snow… Today was forty degrees above zero with a brilliant blue sky. Wyoming’s mood swings can be epic. Nevertheless, Vernon is still out there, feeding cows every day. (I’d show you that if my camera would just talk to my iPad. Seriously, do they not realize…
Category: Cattle
Tasty
Our nice and sunny is headed for nasty and cloudy, AGAIN. Storms and the resulting changes in air pressure can bring on labor. Even though the majority of our heifers should calve starting the 27th of February, weather and low birthweight bulls (used on our heifers for ease in calving their first babies) can slightly…
Action
More photos from yesterday… (I still couldn’t get them to download to my iPad, but a direct line to my desktop works, so I did manage to save these photos…) Indy and Bravo run alongside each other trying to catch up to the herd. We are all on four wheelers or side by side, the…
Getting Close
I’m having problems downloading photos off my camera… but the dogs and I helped bring the heifers up close to the calving shed in preparation for calving season today. We peeled off 37 cows that were with them and took them to a field. It’s amazingly awesome when the cows know where to go and…
Gathering Deadline
Today I was going to watch the grandkids while everyone else was going to gather the cows from the badlands. Jaxon was a bit under the weather, his mom keeping all of her kids home, so I ended up with only Lorelei. Quinlan had decided to cowboy. Lorelei and I began to tackle an old…
More Just Because
Tess and I just had to take baby reindeer pictures this year… We’re not the first ones to do it by far. Which led into my chicken bow pictures and I’m going to stick a Santa hat on Indy to make a trio. Tess’s milk cow, Petunia, calved and her calf is Nick. His daddy…
Supper Time
Beautiful sunset after a “warm”, 30 something degree day.
Never Good
The weather was fine. In the fifties with sunshine ripped me away from chores I should be doing and the dogs and I were off for a walk. My usual loop heads down past the studio… but we have some cows down there. Not wanting to have the puppy meet them yet, I turned and…
Calves
Gathering the calves to bring them home… They’ve been having a good life on our hay fields and will continue to do so… but on some fields over in Worland. It tried to snow at the end… but it was just more cold than anything. Who wants to be a cowboy now?
Mix and Match
After the first half of the herd had been sorted and trailed to their pastures, we decided to break for lunch. Megan and Brandon and I had our horses, and they tied theirs with halters to the corral. I had no halter, and was too lazy to walk to the barn to get one. I…
Broke
Cows were off the Mesa and settled in the Double Crossing overnight. We were to begin riding, gathering them and bringing about half of them into the corral. Half simply because our corral cannot hold them all at once. Vernon and I drove in to the home place and cows came running. We were driving…
A Few More
I hope you’ll forgive me a few more images… This is such a scenic spot and the light was nice… Don’t think I was purposefully ignoring Brandon or Daniel in my photos… they were, for the most part, way too far away to photograph. In fact, Daniel said he had the gate open for 33…