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Trailing Sunrise

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.

 
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Posted by on June 30, 2017 in Nature and Wildlife

 

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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!

 
 

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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

 

 

 

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Lambs on the lookout

 
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Posted by on June 24, 2017 in Animals, Sheep

 

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Guard dogs coming in

Here’s the guard dogs checking things out as we bring the lambs in to dock in the Cottonwood Pasture.

 
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Posted by on June 23, 2017 in Animals, Dogs, Sheep

 

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Two bucks

Eamon spotted these two bucks on Dudley Creek, near the Routt National Forest

 
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Posted by on June 20, 2017 in Nature and Wildlife

 

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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?

 
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Posted by on June 16, 2017 in Animals, Cattle

 

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Which one of these is not like the others?

One antelope hanging out with a herd of deer–go figure.

 
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Posted by on June 9, 2017 in Nature and Wildlife

 

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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!

 

 

Pat and Siobhan looking for cows

Pat and Siobhan near Sheep Mountain

 
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Posted by on June 7, 2017 in Animals, Cattle, Family, Folks, Horses

 

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