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Ace-in-the-Hole, Powder Wash

08 Apr

horses, ready to go

 

Today, we gathered, trailed and sorted cattle in the Powder Wash. It was a great home-schooling experience for Siobhan, Tiarnan, Rhen and Seamus (helping but camera-shy!). We were joined for a time by three young mustang stallions, evidently kicked out of their herd and looking for friends.

Siobhan, home-schooling

Tiarnan and Dot, one of his home-school teachers

Meghan and Siobhan

 

heifers, Megan and Rhen

Eamon sorting the heifers

sorting crew, Powder Wash

Cows and heifers trailing up the Powder Wash

 

 
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Posted by on April 8, 2020 in Animals, Cattle, Dogs, Family, Folks, Folks who help us out, Horses

 

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Babies on the Ground

05 Apr

Cows and calves, Squaw Mountain

 

 

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, we have lot of new baby calves being born. We’ve had some fresh snow, but the temperatures are decent and the mamas are doing a good job. It warms the heart to see these new babies!

Ames Field

Mamas and babies

Angus cow and calf

Sandhill cranes are here too!

 
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Posted by on April 5, 2020 in Animals, Cattle, Nature and Wildlife

 

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Another tough winter (continued)

06 Jan

Ready for the trucks

 

Here’s more photos from sorting the sheep, Who will head north for the winter and who will stay at Powder Flat? The ewe lambs and the younger ewes go to sugar beets and crop aftermath near Burlington. The older ewes and peewee lambs will receive special care at our Powder Flat ranch.

 

bravely guarding the sheep

Here’s the truck!

heading up the alleyway

Eamon and Ned, the brand inspector

Seamus in the chute

Seamus and Oscar

horses, sheep and cows, oh my!

 

 
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Posted by on January 6, 2020 in Animals, Cattle, Dogs, Family, Folks, Folks who help us out, Horses, Peruvian sheepherders, Sheep

 

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Preg Testing day

10 Nov

Waiting for the vet

Is she or isn’t she?

Rhen, the happy preg tester

 
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Posted by on November 10, 2019 in Animals, Cattle, Family, Folks

 

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“Almost Winter” is sure looking like winter!

24 Oct

Cows and sheep heading in

 

 

 

I’m thinking of Wyoming’s four seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Construction. It seems like Winter is in a hurry. Almost Winter, we hardly knew ye!

 

 
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Posted by on October 24, 2019 in Animals, Cattle, Nature and Wildlife, Sheep

 

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Fall cow work (Almost Winter)

22 Oct

 

from the Forest to the corrals–getting ready for winter

 
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Posted by on October 22, 2019 in Animals, Cattle, Horses

 

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Winter’s Comin’ On

21 Oct

bringing cows and sheep in for extra feed

 
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Posted by on October 21, 2019 in Animals, Cattle, Nature and Wildlife, Sheep

 

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Ready to brand

31 May

Bringing in the cows and calves

 

It finally stopped raining long enough to allow us to brand some calves. Clouds were threatening, but with lots of good help, we got through them. They were, as my Dad used to say, “Big enough to get ahold of.”

 

 

cows checking the clouds

Eamon watching Jeff chase the errant cow

Jeff bringing her in

Jeff and Mike watching the calves

 
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Posted by on May 31, 2019 in Animals, Cattle, Events, Family, Folks, Folks who help us out, Horses

 

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some sheep, some cows and a coupla llamas

27 Jan

Some sheep, some cows and two llamas walked into a bar. . .not really, because they couldn’t get a ride to the Cowboy Inn

 
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Posted by on January 27, 2019 in Animals, Cattle, Llamas, Nature and Wildlife, Sheep

 

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Fall Gather

22 Oct

Bringing the cows and calves home

 

 

In the fall, the cows and calves are gathered into private pastures near the Home Ranch. They have spent the summer months grazing on National Forest permits. It takes several “back rides” to make sure that all the critters have come down from the summering ground, and we collect them into pastures where they can graze and hang out until it is time to sort them. Here are some views of our family, friends and employees moving cows and calves closer to home. Soon it will be time to load the calves onto trucks to their new homes, and the cows onto trucks to go to winter pastures and cornfields where they will ruminate and gestate until spring.

The cows and the sheep have been sharing the Sheep Mountain pasture.

Trailing past the sheep camp.

Avencio and the sheep are staying behind.

Heading past the reservoir

trailing along the ditch

a ewe and lamb came along

crossing the Little Snake River bridge

Will and Micah heading for the gate

Eamon counting cows through the gate

the fishermen were not disturbed

 
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Posted by on October 22, 2018 in Animals, Cattle, Events, Family, Folks, Folks who help us out, Peruvian sheepherders, Sheep

 

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