June 26, 27, 2015

[Soapweed]

Cows in repose

The life they chose

Scratching her nose

A bug where he blows

A rose, I suppose

Horses on a hill, seeking shade or a cell signal

Bird watching

Swans a swimming

Geese a gandering

Curlew curling

Post posting

Sandhills scenery

Steer calf

Water cooler conflab

Tools of the trade

No worries, mate.

Nourishment to last until the next time

Patriarch on patrol

Redneck water slide

Fun is where you find it.

Daddy showing how it's done

Splash!

Yeehaw!

It's nice

When a plan comes together

Another plan coming together

At the Women's Ranch Rodeo

In Hyannis, Nebraska , Saturday, June 27, 2015

 

[gcreekrch]

Thanks Soap. It must have really gotten hot down there for Sparky to have cut his hair.

 

[mustang]

I was really impressed with the swimming pool!! Why didn't I think of that ?

 

[SD7]

knife or band

 

[Faster horses]

Everything is lookin' good! Cows, grass, kids, dads, dogs, birds.....everything. So neat to see a family having fun together,
and doing something simple!

 

[Soapweed]

knife or band

We knife cut the bull calves. In the picture below, the calf has horns. Our main plan is to eliminate horns by using polled bulls. Some of the commercial bulls I purchase do have horns in their background, so occasionally a calf is born with horns. I used to dehorn all the calves with paste at tagging time, but that was time consuming and hard to accomplish in bad weather. The first priority now is just to get them tagged with numbers corresponding to their mother's number. For a few years, we tried to dehorn at branding time, but that is also kind of a time-consuming hassle. Dehorning at branding time often leaves little stubs that continue growing. We don't get many horns anymore, but now it just seems easiest and most effective to dehorn in September when we give preconditioning vaccinations. By then it is easy to determine if the horns are for real or just scurs, and when they are off, they are off for good.

 

[George]

I love the daily life in the country - - - most city kids would not know how to enjoy "that contraption"