A few photos from the week

[Soapweed]

Wednesday

Pairs in the pasture

Youngsters on the range

First calf heifers and their babies

Spectating at the horse sale
Thursday

Holding pairs at the pond

Persuading the cattle onward

Calves running and playing. Look at how high one calf is kicking, at the very back.

The old and the new
Friday

Today is a brand new day

A little different touch on black baldy decor

Still attached to the cord

Up close and personal

Take this thing off so I can see

There, that is better.

Proud momma

First calf heifer pairs out in the pasture

Babies having a hay day

The 17th calf born

Typical view of a sandhill

Wilson Lake in the background

The End.

 

[joaker]

Lake Wilson!!! Wow what a difference location makes, here we call that a slough. But great pictures, always enjoy you stuff soap!

 

[Canadian_Cowgirl]

Oh yummy! :lol: you always seem to be in the right place at the right time soapweed! Nice looking horse from what i can see, Do you rember how much it went for? Those are cute calves for black things! :lol:

I aboslutly LOVE the last picture! Thanks!


Katy

 

[Red Robin]

Husky calf or little cow in that brand new day photo , or so it looks. Nice pics again Soapweed.

 

[Nebraska Sandhills]

Thanks for the pictures Soapweed. Looks like the calves are off to a good start. You've probably answered this before, but what do the different color tags signify? ownership or sires possibly? just curious how your system works

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

Still attached to the cord........(nah...just came with it's own leash) lol

 

[Jassy]

Oh Lilly you crack me up..lol a leash...lol to funny!

Well you can chalk up another week of successful ranching Soapweed...all is looking good in your neck of the hills...Thanks for your photo's.

 

[Sundancer]

What a poppin good set of babies!! Can't wait to get the likes of those in my feedlot! And be thankful that you have no mud.....we are hip high in mud right now and it doesn't seem to want to settle. However, we are at 77 degrees with a stout south wind but a little too humid to dry things fast. I wish I were in your country....grass is always greener, right? :wink: By the way, where do you market your calves? We have bought out of Valentine, Atkinson, and Burwell.

 

[Soapweed]

Thanks for the pictures Soapweed. Looks like the calves are off to a good start. You've probably answered this before, but what do the different color tags signify? ownership or sires possibly? just curious how your system works

We use several different colors of tags on the calves, mostly to give us some indication of what cow they go to. We are calving out quite a few first-calf heifers this spring. Last summer these heifers ran in two different bunches, so we are giving purple tags to the calves from supposedly our "best" half of the heifers, and white tags to the "lesser" half of heifers. All of our three-year-old-cows are Angus, and their calves get green tags. The calves from all of the four-year-old Angus cows and older get yellow tags. All of the calves from three-year-old on up black baldy cows get blue tags. We have about 175 head of red and red baldy cows, and all of their calves get pink tags. My sister runs a few cows here, and her calves get orange tags. Saddletramp's calves get red tags. I know, it sounds like a disorganized mess, but it is a pretty simple system once it is understood.

 

[Soapweed]

What a poppin good set of babies!! Can't wait to get the likes of those in my feedlot! And be thankful that you have no mud.....we are hip high in mud right now and it doesn't seem to want to settle. However, we are at 77 degrees with a stout south wind but a little too humid to dry things fast. I wish I were in your country....grass is always greener, right? :wink: By the way, where do you market your calves? We have bought out of Valentine, Atkinson, and Burwell.

Wish we could take some of the extra moisture off your hands. We got about fifteen hundredths of an inch of rain yesterday, which will surely help but we would have welcomed more. It should hold the dust down for a couple of days.

Come to the Valentine Livestock Auction about any week during the month of Octoboer, and you will have a chance to bid on our calves. Thanks for the interest.