Well, I played the Fairweather Cowboy Card and babysat kids so The Girls could go ride in the snow and cold! It was time to bring the cows in from the badlands pasture… and while I snuggled Reagan, fetched the Little Girls from preschool and welcomed the Little Boys off the bus in the afternoon……
#TBT: Burton Girls
Looking back even farther than last week… I must have been in college!? Unbelievably, in a week, my mom will have been gone for nine years… but she made me laugh the other day! I can still hear her voice! Left to right, my mom, Jerri Underwood Burton; me! (In pigtails and baseball cap); my…
Wordless Wednesday – “Cliff Face”
Cliff Face
Book Discussion
I held my book discussion on The First White Woman In The Big Horn Basin by Paul Frison. This local history book is fascinating in so many ways! For those of you really interested, the Washakie Museum in Worland has some new reprints for sale. The book discussion can be watched here.
Questions and Answers January 2019 Edition (part three)
Big Post… sorry, it took me two days to write! From Marilyn: Non ranch-work question! Do you get the station DIY? If so, have any of you watched “Barnwood Builders”?? I am enjoying and learning things about old tools and barn construction that are very interesting! <Ooooooh, yes! I do watch Barnwood Builders! Ranchers are…
Questions and Answers January 2019 Edition (part two)
From Sandy: A couple of questions for you: What is involved in “prepping” the heifers? And another term you have used — What is meant by “sustainablity”? <For us, prepping the heifers for calving season means worming them. Anything that grazes can get worms. Cattle wormer is applied to their backs. Thankfully, we don’t have…
Questions and Answers: January 2019 Edition
WoW! I guess not having many Q&A sessions last year let you stock up on questions! From Dawn: I’m learning a lot from the Big Trails blog about ranching, but I do have a few questions! <For those of you who don’t know or remember, Brandon has a weekly blog over on his website BigTrailsBeef.com….
#TBT: Cradleboard
I made a cradleboard for Victoria, oh, so many years ago! By looking at this photo… she wasn’t the only one that looked so very, very young!
Bitty Heifers
Heifer is the term for young female bovines… though generally, those about to have their first calves. The girls we worked with today are just itty bitty heifers, about ten months old. They received their bangs vaccination today. I’ve gone into that in more detail other times, just type in bangs in my search bar,…
Sort
Heifers go in. Steers go by. The calves were gathered from one place and trailed home to the corrals where we sorted them. This is the beginning of their separate lives… They both need to grow and gain weight, but for, obviously, different reasons. We weighed the steers in groups, averaging their weight. This helps…