Pat and Siobhan near Sheep Mountain
Category Archives: Horses
Branding calves at the Elephant Corrals
branding a baldie calf
We branded some of the big calves and will soon be ready to turn out on the National Forest. We have a great crew. Our friend Rod, who was running the gate, commented that he thought someone was putting calves into the back of the corral as fast as the ropers could pull them out!
Megan and Taylor sharing
Eamon and Tyler looking for the next calf
Rhen on the gate, McCoy roping
three ropes
Branding calves in the mountains and on the desert
It’s time to brand those calves which have been born this spring. We’ve been branding calves both in the mountains and the desert. We have our good crew of employees, friends and family on hand to help us with this endeavor.
Ready to gather: Cookie, Mike, Eamon and Karen
Siobhan and Dice
Taylor bringing in the cows
Mike and Tiarnan conferring
McCoy on the job
Pat and Cookie have a lot of irons in the fire!
Calves in waiting
Looking for the branding crew
Rhen and McCoy at work
David and Joe
Water is life…on Powder Rim
Cows and baby calves
The cows on Powder Rim are doing a great job calving. Thanks to Casey for “going native” and tending them. Of course, I don’t know what a cow could want that they don’t have…especially fresh water!
Springtime by the reservoir
wild horses hanging around the developed water
Solar well pumping water
blessed water
Pat checking on the new babies
Along the spring sheep trails
looking east from Powder Rim
We have started trailing from our wintering grounds to spring country where we have shearing and lambing in our future, and theirs.
The ewe lambs have spent the winter in the Powder Wash country. Yemerson has started them along the Powder Rim trail. In a few days, they will arrive at the Badwater Pasture, where they will hang out until early July.
In the meantime, the ewes who wintered on the Chain Lakes allotment on the Red Desert have started south. Their destination is the Cottonwood lambing grounds. In a few weeks, we’ll have wool in the bags, and lambs on the ground, God willing.
ewe lambs watering on the Powder Rim trail
nooning at the reservoir
leaving the Red Desert
between I80 and the railroad overpass
Pepe giving an early lamb a lift
catching a ride
over the Union Pacific bridge
almost to the Rodewald gate
Timmy–ready for green grass
Ladder Ranch
