loading the steers
Campbell on the job
After a summer of cell grazing, it is time for yearling steers to leave the high country. Here we are loading them on trucks, fat and happy.
in the chute, waiting to load
working the steers
sorting
Supermoon rising
Cows at Elephant corrals
When the cows and their calves come off of the summer National Forest grazing permits, it is time to sort them. We pregnancy test the cows, and sort out the opens, and the cows who won’t make it another year at our high altitude. Some will go on to slaughter, and some will go on to homes where the wintering conditions are easier. We sort the heifers from the steers. The steers are all sold, and go on to feed and eventually become steaks. The heifers are sorted into replacement heifers for us, replacement heifers for other ranchers, and fed heifers.
Cows with Squaw Mountain
Eamon sorting
Seamus and Maeve, helping
Sharon and Siobhan, with extra horsepower
Jim, Tiarnan, Clyde and his mom Peanut
Cows coming into the Home Ranch corral
Eamon and McCoy looking through Dirte’s ears
We never forget what a privilege it is to be raising children alongside our cows, sheep, horses, dogs, llamas, etc. Today, the three “big kids” (8, 6, and 4) went out to work with Siobhan’s 4-H steers, check the cows who are about to calve, and just play in the slush and snow.
Siobhan with Salt and Pepper (Sal y Pimiento), her 4-H steers
Salt, at rest in high value hay
Seamus, Siobhan and Maeve–checking the pregnant cows
Pregnant cows in the Big Meadow
moving the remuda
Seamus, Siobhan and Maeve in the playhouse
birds of a feather
“Grandma, listen!” Birder friends–what are these?
Bridget–ready to check to pregnant cows
happy as pigs in slop
Eamon and Pat in winter
Siobhan, Maeve and McCoy with Salt and Pepper–Siobhan’s 4-H steers
Ladder heifers
Squaw Mountain with bales
birds of a feather
almost like partridges in a pear tree
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