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Welcome to the world, Emma!
The horse herd welcomes Emma
This morning when we checked the horses, we found that Sarah has a brand new colt! Sarah is a great kids’ horse, so Tiarnan and Rhen were very excited to visit Sarah and her baby. She has a filly, born on my grandmother Emma Terrill Salisbury’s birthday, so of course she is named Emma.
Tiarnan and Rhen checking out Emma
mealtime for Emma
Tiarnan and Rhen opening the gate
New babies at Powder Flat
Coco and her filly–a half sister to Dirte’s new colt
Meanwhile, back at the Powder Flat ranch…new babies keep arriving. They gladden the heart!
heifers and calves at Powder Flat
Pat with the heifers and ewes
lambs snacking on alfalfa
The first colt of the season
Dirte and her new colt
The weather is still trying to make up its mind. Is it Still Winter? Almost Spring? Spring? But Eamon’s mare Dirte made up her mind that it was time to deliver her colt. We still haven’t gotten close enough to determine whether it is a filly or a horse colt. The trees are trying to decide if it is safe to send out buds. In the meantime, the calves, lambs and colts are making their appearance. It must be spring!
Waiting for the green
cows with their new calves in the Big Meadow
Fall Filly
Plata and Diamond
Pat’s mare Plata did not foal in June with the other mares. She is an older mom, and took her time. Maeve called, saying, “Grandpa–Plata had a filly and she is black with a diamond on her forehead!” Pat asked Maeve what she wanted to name the baby and she said “Diamond.”
Gathering cows off the Med Bow
and we have to leave the Forest because???
October 1st is our off date for the cows on the Medicine Bow National Forest grazing allotment. We have had a blessedly wet summer, so we are leaving plenty of feed behind. The days have been warm, so the cows see no reason to leave to Forest. Still, we have to gather them and trail them into Sheep Mountain, our contiguous private land pasture. Good grass awaits them there. The next project is to work the cows and calves.
Eamon waiting for Fancy to grab breakfast before we head out
Randy, the Shanghaied range rider
the last of the salt licks
Peanut was also salt hungry
Fancy grabbing lunch
Val, the Borgie (Corgie/Border collie cross) brings up the cows
The new Prince
Dirte with Prince
Not to be outdone by British Royalty, Eamon’s mare, Dirte, gave birth to a colt this morning.
Maeve, Tiarnan and Siobhan checking out the horses
Babies everywhere!
Sarita and her wild horse catch colt
Cows with black baldie calves
Rambouillet ewe with cross-bred lambs, Powder Flat
Modesto’s dog with pups, Cyclone Rim
Ladder Ranch
