Spring has definitely sprung, if not with weather, then with spring work. After a dry winter, we have had series of spring rains and snows. In the meantime, we have lots of baby lambs and calves arriving. We are trailing sheep to spring country and preparing to shear.
Cows with calves at Powder Flat
Heifer eating afterbirth
Wild horses watering at developed well
windmill from the ground
ewes and lambs
docking the early lambs
bum lambs in a box
lambs warming up in a tub
rainstorm with Battle Mountain
Tags: Battle Mountain, cows, ewes, heifers, lambs, Powder Flat, rain, wild horses
or…the heifer’s in the corn stalks
A Little Boy Blue come blow your horn,
The sheep’s in the meadow the cow’s in the corn.
But where’s the boy who looks after the sheep?
He’s under a haystack fast asleep.
Will you wake him? No, not I – for if I do, he’s sure to cry
Tags: corn stalks, cows, heifers, Little Boy Blue, Poetry
Sorting heifers
We sold one truckload of heifers so it was time to sort and load them. After weeks of dry weather, fire in the forest and smoke in the valley, we’ve had rain. It has settled the dust and greened up our brittle grasses. The Big Red Fire did a lot of good, this week’s rain is doing a lot of good, and the first frost which came last night is just a few days ahead of the Equinox. Fall is here, and the cooler weather is welcome.
Belle and Gramps bringing up the heifers
Meghan on Clyde
Eamon with McCoy on post, supervising
Rhen and Sarah checking out the truck
Tags: Eamon, heifers, McCoy, Meghan, Rhen
bringing in the heifers
Are they or aren’t they. The heifers are headed in to be pregnancy tested. We are lucky to have to two veterinarians in our community–Drs. Ben and Hallie Noland. Four-year-old Rhen calls Ben “Doctorbennoland” and the good doctor came to check out the heifers. McCoy, six, was mad because Rhen got to help while McCoy had to go to first grade and miss out out on the excitement.
Ben checking out a heifer
Rhen supervising
Megan and Eamon working the chute
Brittany and Kimmy
Meghan on the job too
That’s a good look for you, Doctorbennoland!
Tags: Britanny, cattle, Dr. Ben Noland, Eamon, heifers, horses, Kimmy, Megan, Meghan, pregnancy checking, Rhen
McCoy waiting to fly
Eamon is working on his pilot’s license, so he decided to combine business with education. Eamon, Pat, McCoy and Eamon’s flight instructor, Ryan, flew to Texas to shop for bulls and to Nebraska to check on our heifers that are wintering there.
Our new bull–unfortunately, they couldn’t hook a stock trailer onto the airplane.
McCoy checking out the bulls
Heifers on cornstalks
Heifers on feed in Nebraska
McCoy, Eamon and Pat with the heifers
Home Ranch from the air
Tags: airplane, bulls, cattle, Eamon, heifers, McCoy, Pat
Ladder Ranch
