Fall, East Central Alberta

[Dylan Biggs]

Moved bulls to new pasture yesterday and snapped a few pics along the way.

Found this beaver dam.

Hannah my youngest daughter and Anne, from France were along to help.

View to the southwest, lots of dead willows evident from all the previous drought.

A nice little pond.

A bull taking a wrong turn.

Trixie is the first to cross. Zeke not far behind.

View east while we wait for the dogs.

Here comes the wayward bull.

Climbing out right into a willow.

Dogs discussing the situation with another bull that wanted to go north instead of east, he almost beat the dogs across.

Turned and coming back.

Maybe not, he loafed for a good 5 minutes and was completely content to stay in the water till we went away.

Trixie decides to up the anti.

A not so polite nip to the face.

He decided coming back wasn't that bad an idea.

The swimmer reluctantly gets out.

Crossing where we had intended.

All across and going through the gate.

 

[Anonymous]

Looking good...Yep dogs are sure handy when you got bulls wanting to waterhole up...

Speaking of bulls- I was just looking thru Kits bull sale catalog- and saw your name mentioned along with a learned quote ....

 

[RSL]

Quite frankly, bulls in the water in October at Hanna is kind of freaky...
Great pics.
We are nearly done with cutting our first cut of hay for the year here a bit further north of you...

 

[per]

Quite frankly, bulls in the water in October at Hanna is kind of freaky...
Great pics.
We are nearly done with cutting our first cut of hay for the year here a bit further north of you...

No kidding, I was surprised to see bulls swimming there a month ago let alone in October. :shock: Sure is pretty there right now.

 

[Northern Rancher]

Must of been the day for cows to swim-those purebred cows I bought this winter quit the bunch and went on an adventure yesterday. Ty and his buddy were bringing them home when they decided to jump in the creek-the farmers have trenched it so the banks are too steep to climb out so they had a half mile swim pretty played out cows. Usually not much water in it this time of year but it's running fast and deep this year lucky they were with the current. Our little Idaho Shag is working good so I maybe have finally got a good dog to go with the wife and horse lol.

 

[Faster horses]

Put up a current picture of your 'Idaho Shag' would you, NR?
I'd like to see what she looks like now. She was such a cute pup.

Dylan, where did those dogs come from? Did you train them?
How long have you had them? Did you say they were Border
Collies? They are amazing...

 

[burnt]

Thanks for the great pictures! They are most entertaining with your dogs doing their job so well.

 

[Dylan Biggs]

Looking good...Yep dogs are sure handy when you got bulls wanting to waterhole up...

Speaking of bulls- I was just looking thru Kits bull sale catalog- and saw your name mentioned along with a learned quote ....

A learned quote? That's a stretch, I figured he had quit quoting me years ago, he must be hard up for material!

 

[Dylan Biggs]

Quite frankly, bulls in the water in October at Hanna is kind of freaky...
Great pics.
We are nearly done with cutting our first cut of hay for the year here a bit further north of you...

No kidding, I was surprised to see bulls swimming there a month ago let alone in October. :shock: Sure is pretty there right now.

Freaky is right, we finally finished cutting a couple of days ago, should be finished baling today, a lot better challenge then last year with no hay at all!

Per how goes the harvest? Thanks for the contact info.

 

[Dylan Biggs]

Put up a current picture of your 'Idaho Shag' would you, NR?
I'd like to see what she looks like now. She was such a cute pup.

Dylan, where did those dogs come from? Did you train them?
How long have you had them? Did you say they were Border
Collies? They are amazing...

FH, did you make it to Alaska, do you have any pics? Hope you had a good trip.

About the dogs, the two black and white Border Collies are from Kevin Meyers, Mantz Creek Ranch, Douglas Wyoming. I got them at 5 months old in 2006. King the red one is a locally bred McCallum Border Collie he is 2.
I do my own training if you can even call it that.

 

[Northern Rancher]

It basically says guys like me look so good because we eat too much lol.

 

[Faster horses]

Yep, we made it to Alaska and home again. I have posted some
pictures of visits with per and his dad and BMR. Have others yet to post, thanks for asking.
We were gone 29 days and travelled 7350 miles round-trip. :shock:

Those are amazing dogs. I'm sorry that it didn't work out so we
could see them. Mr. FH really enjoys dogs. I do too, but I think
dogs are his favorite creature on this earth. He would have enjoyed
seeing them. Maybe next time.

 

[Dylan Biggs]

Thanks for the great pictures! They are most entertaining with your dogs doing their job so well.

Thank you, the dogs have there helpful moments that's for sure and a few where they aren't so helpful but that is part of the deal when you have young dogs learning on the fly.

Glad you like the pics.

 

[Dylan Biggs]

Yep, we made it to Alaska and home again. I have posted some
pictures of visits with per and his dad and BMR. Have others yet to post, thanks for asking.
We were gone 29 days and travelled 7350 miles round-trip. :shock:

Those are amazing dogs. I'm sorry that it didn't work out so we
could see them. Mr. FH really enjoys dogs. I do too, but I think
dogs are his favorite creature on this earth. He would have enjoyed
seeing them. Maybe next time.

That was quite a trip, glad you made it home safely, I look forward to seeing some pics of Alaska.