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A Few New Pictures To Share

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Ranchy

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This has been a wild weekend for us, so far. Yesterday, we loaded up Al's 4-H calves, and took them to the Shipping Corrals, to weigh them. Unfortunately, the scale has come off the knives (who knows how that might have happened?) so we took them to one of the neighbor's and borrowed their scales to weigh them. While the guys were getting that set up and ready to use, I snapped a few pics........

Here are a couple of their calves, waiting while their mamas finish their hay:

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Wheezy and Bandita, waiting in the trailer:

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Fixing the scales, where their show calves had knocked them off, too:

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Wheezy's Moment of Truth-500#, only has to gain 250# more to make minimum weight in 5 months:

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After we got the calves weighed (didn't get a pic of Bandita on the scale, camera was being unco-operative :roll: She weighed 445#, no minimum for heifers.) we went down to Hubby's folk's and got some medicine for me to take, for the ear infection I have. While we were there, Papa told Al that his cow had calved about the 14th, has a bull calf again. So, we went in search of the herd, to check out his new baby.

New Mama Blondie:

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Cows and Calves (the log building in the background is the old Los Lentos School):

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What we woke up to this morning, ended up with a couple of inches, but it's mostly gone now:

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Very nice pictures Ranchy,that New Mexico looks like pretty nice country how many pairs to the acre, stock looks to be in real good shape too..............good luck
 
Richard, nice to meetcha! :D
New Mexico is some pretty country, at least on this side of the state......we have lots of mountains, and yep, those are pine trees. We have an over-abundance of those, to be sure! We also have aspen, fir, spruce, cottonwood, willow, a few sycamore scattered along some of the creeks, and just about any other kind you can think of.
It's actually not unusual to have snow here right up to the end of May......just depends on the year. Al's first horse, a mare we got from a couple who ranch near my dad's place, fell in a cattleguard her first night here, after the 2' of snow covered it so much that she couldn't see it was there, and thought it was an open gate, we think. Sadly, we had to put her down, as tendons were too damaged to heal up and her be sound.

Soapweed, that's quite a compliment, coming from the Master! :o :lol: I do love this part of the state, but have lived places I'd rather not go back to, if you know what I mean...... :wink:
 
Ah, Haymaker, ya snuck in on me, while I was trying to get some other stuff done! :lol:
This country hasn't looked this good in about 10 or more years. Until last summer, we'd been in a pretty severe drought. Back then, it took upwards of 45 acres per cow unit. Another factor we have to look at, is the terrain........lots of rough, rocky country, almost overgrown to a point of there isn't grass at all in places. Out in the open, though, it takes less space per cow. I'd say, probably in the neighborhood of 25 acres per cow, give or take.
There was so much feed left after the rains last summer (and a lot of it's still out there) that the only thing we (personally) had to feed much at all, is the milk cow. She was raised on a dairy, and I know they hand-fed her everything she had to eat, so never learned to get out and rustle for herself.......dern pampered bovine unit! :? Even though she's looking better than when we brought her in, she still looks like a stiff wind could tip her over.
 
I've always loved that part of NM. Haven't gotten to do much travelin in that part of the world for a LONG time, but it sure is perdy there.

Looks like Al is gettin geared up for another busy 4H year....wish him the best with all his projects.
 
Nice pictures, those trees make a good background. It takes alot of dedication to get those 4-H calves ready for fair....good luck !
 
I always enjoy your part of this great country...I have NM on my list of places I want to see someday....I'm sure there's always sumthin new to see each day..Thanks
 

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