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
Ladder Ranch
flyfishrandy
July 19, 2017 at 8:36 PM
What are marvelous set of pictures that told a great story in some beautiful country. I was glad to see the sheep grazing after all they went through that day . It looked like all the hands had a pretty full day also – what hard workers! It was people just like that that built and settled this country and that same work ethic is alive today at Ladder Ranch.
panavia999
July 23, 2017 at 12:15 PM
Great series of photos. Many thanks for posting.