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Bull Run or the Samurai Express

Akaushi bulls t

We decided to try a new breed of cattle to crossbreed with our Angus and black baldie heifers. These Japanese-origin Akaushi bulls were located in Muleshoe, Texas (northwest). Pat, Sharon, Tiarnan and Rhen made a run to Texas to pick up them up. We stopped in Denver and Mosquero, New Mexico on the trip down. Our friends Jack and Tuda Crews have a wonderful bed and breakfast, The Rectory, in Mosquero. We were able to visit with them before heading on to Muleshoe. After loading the bulls, we made a 14-hour run home. The boys were troopers all the way! We unloaded in the dark.

Rhen and Tiarnan in Denver

boys’ boots at The Rectory

windmill near Mosquero

Tiarnan, Rhen and Muleshoe mule statue

Rhen, Tiarnan and cattle

on the road

Rhen in Muleshoe

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Posted by Ladder Ranch on May 31, 2020 in Animals, Cattle, Family, Folks

Tags: Akaushi cattle, Muleshoe cattle, Rhen, Tiarnan

Branding at the Terrill Corrals

14 May

Retired chute at the Terrill Corrals

My Dad, George Salisbury, and his cousin Bob Terrill, used to run cattle together in the Powder Wash country. The corrals, north of Powder Wash Camp, are still known as the Terrill Corrals. While the corrals don’t see as much activity as they used to, our family and the Terrills still brand calves in the corrals, with Bob’s son Tim and granddaughter Tate.

Tate. bringing in a calf

Tate and Tiarnan, roping

wrastlin’ crew

Siobhan and Rhen–beware the girl with the knife

Tiarnan, ground crew

Tim (who worked a lot) at the lunch wagon

Tiarnan. Dot and calves

Tate, at the Terrill Corrals

Maeve and Tate

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Posted by Ladder Ranch on May 14, 2020 in Animals, Cattle, Family, Folks, Folks who help us out, Friends, Horses

Tags: branding, cattle, Maeve, Powder Wash, Rhen, Tate, Terrill Corrals, Tiarnan, Tim

Unloading the heifers AKA home school

10 Apr

Hereford heifer comes off the truck.

We brought the heifers, recently gathered at Powder Wash, to the Home Ranch. The unloading crew was Eamon, Rhen, Sharon and Siobhan. Our equipment included a mop in lieu of a “poking stick.” This exercise fulfilled home schooling requirements for animal science, mathematics and physical education.

Eamon and Rhen

Rhen unloading

Rhen and Siobhan

heifers crossing the bridge

green grass is on its way: Pat, Eamon and Rhen

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Posted by Ladder Ranch on April 10, 2020 in Animals, Cattle, Family, Folks

Tags: cattle, Eamon, heifers, Home Ranch, Rhen, Siobhan

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

Tags: cattle, cows, dogs, Eamon, heifers, horses, Megan, Meghan, Rhen, Siobhan, Tiarnan

Welcome to the world, Emma!

07 Apr

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

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Posted by Ladder Ranch on April 7, 2020 in Animals, Family, Folks, Horses

Tags: colt, filly, horses, Rhen, Tiarnan

Winter Walk

19 Jan

Tiarnan and Rhen

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Posted by Ladder Ranch on January 19, 2020 in Family, Folks

Tags: Powder Flat, Rhen, Tiarnan, winter

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 Ladder Ranch on November 10, 2019 in Animals, Cattle, Family, Folks

Tags: barn, cows, Rhen

The all boy crew

13 Aug

Tiarnan and Rhen trailing toward the corrals

Sorry for the long hiatus. . .I’ve continued to have computer issues, but I hope they are resolved and I can now return to offering glimpse into the life and times of the Ladder Ranch and its crew. I will do some backtracking because of course, I’ve been taking pictures!

When we trailed out of the Red Desert last April, a couple of ewes snuck off and have been hanging out near the Continental Divide Rim energy production facilities. We’ve seen them, and received some phone calls from folks working in the area. In the meantime, they each had a fine lamb, and avoided shearing. We knew that capturing them would be difficult, since they were clearly independent. A few days ago, Pat took Tiarnan, 8, and Rhen, 6, and a couple of horses with the mission of capturing the errant ewes and lambs and bringing them home. It was an adventure, but they returned home with two ewes, two lambs, two horses, two boys and Pat.

Rhen with escaping sheep

Tiarnan trying to keep up

bringing them in

the corrals at last!

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Posted by Ladder Ranch on August 13, 2019 in Animals, Family, Folks, Sheep

Tags: Rhen, sheep, Tiarnan

Counting on, Modesto’s bunch

02 Jul

ewes and lambs in the Johnson corral

July 1st brings the on-date for the Forest grazing permits. We worked Modesto’s bunch at the Johnson corrals, in the Routt National Forest. We not only counted the ewes and lambs, but put numbered paint brands on the “marker” ewes, and gave Rhen an opportunity to practice his mutton busting.