Dunkin surveying the barnyard
Dunkin checking out the bulls
Tag Archives: bulls
The Ides of April
Bull fight
The bull fight crowd is pretty placid
the cranes of spring
Seamus on the run
Free range children
Seamus with Val and Dulce
McCoy, Tiarnan and Maeve ready for lambing
scenes from Powder Flat
puppies on the run
puppy with shadow
Pat with young bulls
Tiarnan, Seamus, Maeve and puppies playing in the corn
Border collie puppy hanging out on the corn sacks
Hampshire ewes
Siobhan with Lulu
Antonio, Meghan, Oscar, Brittany and Gyp–hard at work
some early lambs
ewes with water bottles
November–from fall to winter
November is a month of transition. We ship the calves and start moving the cows and the ewes to their wintering grounds. The lambs are on feed, and the calves are either sold, or selected as replacements and on winter feed. The cows are pregnancy tested and their fate determined. It’s a lot to be thankful for when fall segues into winter and we settle in for the long months of quiet and cold.
moving cows near the Chivington Place
rider moving cows below Powder Mountain
Welcome(???) to the Powder Flat Headquarters–part of our wintering grounds
Ewes on the reservoir, ready to trail north
ewes near the communication towers, Badwater Pasture photo by Oscar
cows crossing the creek
photo by Oscar
the little bulls at Powder Flat
Heifers at the Flying Triangle
the deer are settling in for the winter, too
Summer Love: A.I. for the cows
Cows waiting in the Elephant Corrals
Not all of our cows find Mr. Right Bull in their forest pastures in the summer months. Some of them meet Mr. Artificial Inseminator just before they trek to the National Forest grazing permits. After studying the bull catalogs and deciding on the future fathers of many of next year’s calves, Eamon orders semen and sets the wheels in motion.The process is complicated, but the day arrives, and the AI crew arrives, and the chosen cows are ready to conceive. This allows us to use better quality bulls than we can afford to buy, and means that we don’t need to keep as many live bulls on hand throughout the year. The bulls aren’t too disappointed though. They go to the Forest with the cows, and breed those who didn’t conceive or are in the natural breeding group.
The AI techs prepare the semen
This is romantic? No bull!
McCoy and Eamon working the chute
Family labor: Georgia, Jim, Rhen and Jeff
McCoy and Megan bringing up the cows
The bull team
Ready to ride
Ladder Ranch
