Wyoming Wind
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And our fall work continues...we got all our pairs down the road to our other ranch where we have a TON of fall grass. A lot of the ground is pretty boggy and so when it freezes the cows can utilize the feed, much which is still pretty green. It's not froze yet though! We have been very dry until this past week and had a fire start just south of our grazing allotment. No worries for us though; 4 years ago half our allotment burnt, almost 10,000 acres. The fall snow put this latest one out.

The other day my husband, his parents, and his sister gathered our cows with heifer calves at their side and chose our replacements. We gathered our west meadow and cut out the pairs while they were stuck in a corner of the field.

While gathering:

My husband and mom in law driving a pair

My husband, Lou, and his mare Bertha. Isn't that an aweful name for such a pretty girl (I apoligize for those named Bertha out there)!

My pa in law on Holstein...again, I get voted out on the horse names around here!

My husband driving a pair out of the herd on Bertha
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My ma in law on my favorite mare, Jill. Not a bad horse name except she was named after my hubby's ex-girlfriend from years ago. Before my time. Good thing she's a nice horse

Shorly after cutting our replacements out the weather broke and dumped on our country, putting the forest fire out, and freshening the feed up.

We are getting ready now for shipping our calves on Sat. We are hoping we meet our weight--we have always been over by 10 or more pounds but our cattle came home off the forest pretty stressed. They had great feed up there but too many grizzlies. We are out at least 35 calves. Yes, that's what I said. 35 calves. We have had 4 get confirmed as griz kills. I'm going to try to talk my husband into keeping our raised cattle home next year on our leased land. I can't handle seeing all the dry cows, especially when our calves are bringing so much money this year! We hope hunters find more of our dead calves so we can get up there and hopefully have them confirmed so we get paid for them. I thought i'd never say it but I think i'd almost have wolves than bears. And we've had lots of wolf problems! Well, regardless PAY DAY comes on Sat for us! Yay!
I apologize for my photos being small and some getting posted twice. My 15 month old is not providing much time and concentration to do this today!

The other day my husband, his parents, and his sister gathered our cows with heifer calves at their side and chose our replacements. We gathered our west meadow and cut out the pairs while they were stuck in a corner of the field.

While gathering:

My husband and mom in law driving a pair

My husband, Lou, and his mare Bertha. Isn't that an aweful name for such a pretty girl (I apoligize for those named Bertha out there)!

My pa in law on Holstein...again, I get voted out on the horse names around here!

My husband driving a pair out of the herd on Bertha
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My ma in law on my favorite mare, Jill. Not a bad horse name except she was named after my hubby's ex-girlfriend from years ago. Before my time. Good thing she's a nice horse


Shorly after cutting our replacements out the weather broke and dumped on our country, putting the forest fire out, and freshening the feed up.

We are getting ready now for shipping our calves on Sat. We are hoping we meet our weight--we have always been over by 10 or more pounds but our cattle came home off the forest pretty stressed. They had great feed up there but too many grizzlies. We are out at least 35 calves. Yes, that's what I said. 35 calves. We have had 4 get confirmed as griz kills. I'm going to try to talk my husband into keeping our raised cattle home next year on our leased land. I can't handle seeing all the dry cows, especially when our calves are bringing so much money this year! We hope hunters find more of our dead calves so we can get up there and hopefully have them confirmed so we get paid for them. I thought i'd never say it but I think i'd almost have wolves than bears. And we've had lots of wolf problems! Well, regardless PAY DAY comes on Sat for us! Yay!
I apologize for my photos being small and some getting posted twice. My 15 month old is not providing much time and concentration to do this today!