More rain and snow today, just when we were getting dried out from the last storm! I want to thank everyone who has shared, tweeted, and linked to my Atlas Blizzard story. It seems we are spreading the news and making people aware of the tragedy in the Black Hills. You guys are great! Tonight…
Tag: cattle
Questions and Answers – October 2013 Edition
Let’s go! Marilyn: Question: your dogs expend a LOT of energy when they are working. What do you feed them for optimum nutrition? Marilyn, I feed Loyall dog food and usually they are on just the Maintenance. If there is going to be tons of work, I’ll buy their Active Adult which has higher protein. …
Atlas Blizzard Links
Thank you so much for your response to yesterday’s post about the Atlas Blizzard. I am glad I could answer some of your questions, or perhaps, just explain topics a tad bit better. Tonight, I think I’ll just provide a few links that you may be interested in investigating. For details on livestock stress and…
The Atlas Blizzard
TEN THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT THE ATLAS BLIZZARD AND CATTLE! People have been shocked that I’ve tweeted and posted on my Red Dirt facebook page that the Atlas Blizzard that stranded me in Cheyenne last week, has killed an estimated 60,000 – 100,000 cattle in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota. …
Wordless Wednesday – “Headed Downhill”
Cows and heifers headed downhill out of the snowy Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming.
Camera Play
Playing with my camera at weaning… I had my camera just shoot the green/yellow range and leave the rest black and white. Vernon watches as the calves load onto the semi. Then I tried just shooting blue… I liked that better… so I did some more… My other favorite blue tinged one… I relax with…
Wordless Wednesday – “Cowpy That.”
Or should I have just said, “Copy that.”?
Sweetie
Morning found us headed up the mountain to wean calves. The guys had left their horses up yesterday… I was afoot. We headed them all towards the corral… c’mon, girls! Before we knew it, the trucks arrived… and we hustled to sort the calves off from their mommas. We were home by noon, and then…
Blues
Panama and Rio are on level ground, it’s just Fossil Butte and other hills are angled! It rained this afternoon, not much, but between today and yesterday, it’s the most rain we’ve had in quite a while. Everyone’s talking about how this winter is supposed to be really tough, according to local weathermen and the…
Cowboys on the Horizon
Pregnancy testing… The way to find out if a cow gets to stay or hit the road. We actually ended up just after lunch! Two o’clock or so… which is AMAZING for us! We’re so used to trying to do ALL of them at once, but splitting the herd in half, while it causes more…
Clouds Dancing
Well, it could have been worse! I haven’t ever gathered this leased pasture before… I’m not sure what I was doing when we were in it last year… all I knew was that the cows needed to go UP. UP is a hard direction to get cows to go! About an hour and a half…