Whipping up a couple of pound cakes, an annual meeting (you know, it’s like we’re a business or something), and a long attempt at helping a friend with her printer/phone/wi-fi/internet… not a necessarily photogenic day. But there was this…
Tag: bulls
Chore
After we buy bulls, and they’re delivered… they spend some time in quarantine, just in case they might bring some illness from their home. Then, before they’re turned out with our other bulls… they must be branded. We just had that discussion about bulls and branding… oh, by the way, we did find those other…
Long Lost
We knew he was in there… somewhere… but in our one leased pasture that wins multiple awards for having the most hidey holes, draws, gullies, trees, rocks, hills, valleys, and brush, he was difficult to find. Bulls can be excellent hide-and-go-seek players. Since his job was complete and he wasn’t hurting anything… we had put…
Big Boys
The snow continues to come off FAST! I glanced out my window last night, moonlight was bright, and I thought, WHAT IS THAT BIG BLACK THING OUT ON THE ROAD???? It took me a minute to figure out the hillside was all bared off where before I was used to a white, snow covered hill!…
Bulloney
While I was holding the herd the other day… two bulls had a tiff. The went at it, head to head, for about 15 minutes. They started at one side of the herd, and keep shoving on each other clear to the other side. It wasn’t loud, or particularly physical, but they kept pressure on…
View
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…
Nice Looking Fellas
While I’ve been in Christmas mode, for myself and the library, the guys attended the Sitz Angus Bull Sale up in Montana. Today, the new bulls were delivered. They are four very nice looking bulls. I’m glad I didn’t have to walk into a trailer with 10 bulls in it though… They were mild as…
Bulls
The new bulls from Sitz Angus Ranch have been here a while now… separated from the other bulls to help them settle in and give them a period of quarantine time. It’s time to join the big bunch. But first, our brand has to be applied. With the good cattle market, the price of bulls…
I Won’t
After a tremendous day of rain yesterday, (.79″ here, 1.3″ at the home place) which forced our ‘day off’, we were back in the saddle again. I managed to snap a few pics before I got too busy. Then, as things were settling down and we were motivating down the highway, and I was just…
Had To Be There
Waking up to this is just thrilling. Don’t Lucas and Dally look thrilled? Now that the cows are out in the badlands… the bulls get to move out of their spot as well. We’ve kept them miles away from each other, but now they can move to the creek bottom bull pasture and spend some…
Classic Springtime
The snow is barely gone and another blizzard is raging outside, what was starting to dry up here will be mud again tomorrow. Classic of springtime around here… Some of our bulls graze by the old granary while remnants of winter hang on the shadowed hillsides and draws. This was two days ago… tomorrow morning…