Sunrise over the Sierra Madres
As we trail the sheep and the cows onto the Routt and Medicine Bow National Forests, we see a lot of sunrises.
Monthly Archives: June 2017
Ace Number One Cowboy
Casey and the docking team–Seamus, Siobhan and McCoy
While Casey posts photos on Facebook of his cowboy exploits with the rough and tough Ladder Ranch crew, here is what he is really up to!
Docking 2017
Belle helping the humans
Go that-a-way!
When most of the lambs are on the ground, we are faced with the next big task–docking. This is a major job which involves handling each and every lamb which has recently been born–giving it an earmark, castrating it if it is a male, judging if it is replacement quality if it is a female, vaccinating for enterotoxemia and tetanus, cutting the tail, and last, but not least, stamping on a paint brand. This operation involves a lot of moving parts with a lot of coordination of critters and people. It calls for all hands and the cook!
Heading into the corral
Bringing up the ewes
Docking crew ready to go
McCoy, with the docking crew and the Dinkum Docker
Siobhan taking a break
Rhen and Tiarnan–the happy dockers!
Tyler, German, Juan and Rafael at the docking board
German holds lamb while Kimmy castrates
Jaime putting a lamb into the Dinkum Docker
Tyler and Jaime
the multi-talented Kimmy vaccinating
Rhen branding for Pepe
Brittany counting tails
After the docking
Luka supervising lunch
Time for rest and contemplation of tails
Guard dogs coming in
Here’s the guard dogs checking things out as we bring the lambs in to dock in the Cottonwood Pasture.
Looking for love
Put me in, Coach!
It’s almost time for the bulls to seek romance with the cows. The highlight of the year comes just before the summer solstice, when their long months of waiting are at an end, and they get to hang out with comely cows in the beautiful Routt and Medicine Bow National Forests. What more could a bull want?
Which one of these is not like the others?
One antelope hanging out with a herd of deer–go figure.
Head Catch Haiku
Tralia, Brittany and Randy on the job
Queen of the North Fork–
with Tralia on the job,
the calf’s got no chance!
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