More April 2014 photographs

[Soapweed]

Sunday morning coming down

But where there is life, there is hope.

The EMTs have arrived. Guess you could call them a pair o' medics.

She looks better than she did.

Switching pastures

Jumping for the brand

Babies at the back

Hope that finding a sideways olive is like finding a four-leaf clover.

Easter dinner

Busy table

Trying a different calf table

Ready at the back

Sparky assisted this day.

Calves in the waiting room

Tally keeper

Vaccinator for the day

Sparky helped us so Peach could babysit, so Sparky's bride could work at her job as pharmacist at the hospital.

An oyster vine that grows on the prairie

The old guy is trying to earn his keep

By running a branding iron

 

[RSL]

That is the same as our table and I love it. Mostly the table here is due to an extreme shortage of help and the knowledge that there are days when 1 person has to go it alone.

 

[Faster horses]

Everything and everyone is looking good!! Those are sure some
stout-looking healthy calves.

Which table did you think worked the best?

 

[Big Swede]

We just placed our seed order to Guerneys but I never saw an oyster vine, where did you get it? :shock: :lol: Great pictures as always.

 

[Soapweed]

Everything and everyone is looking good!! Those are sure some
stout-looking healthy calves.

Which table did you think worked the best?

We like the yellow For-Most the best.

 

[Soapweed]

We just placed our seed order to Guerneys but I never saw an oyster vine, where did you get it? :shock: :lol: Great pictures as always.

This oyster vine commonly grows on the prairie or in the mountains. It is not to be confused with the oyster vine the sprouts from the sea.

 

[DejaVu]

Wow. I thought the cow & calf were gonners. Soap, I had a For-Most calf cradle. Always watch the open side so a calf doesn't have a leg out when you open the front. A spiral break is the result.

 

[Anonymous]

We just placed our seed order to Guerneys but I never saw an oyster vine, where did you get it? :shock: :lol: Great pictures as always.

This oyster vine commonly grows on the prairie or in the mountains. It is not to be confused with the oyster vine the sprouts from the sea.

Your oyster vine would have a lot of rocky mountain chefs crying big tears....

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

If you were closer I'd let you try my Calf Roper chute. I haven't used many others except a OLD Powder River but I sure like the Calf roper.

 

[gcreekrch]

We just placed our seed order to Guerneys but I never saw an oyster vine, where did you get it? :shock: :lol: Great pictures as always.

This oyster vine commonly grows on the prairie or in the mountains. It is not to be confused with the oyster vine the sprouts from the sea.

Would the differences be called praline and saline?

 

[littlejoe]

I just about always learn something from you! I like the idea of the red panel---keeps next calf headed right way and sis from getting kicked.

We like stuff safe and easy, I'm kinda revamping a few things and want to make calf table a 2 person deal. Been head scratching over how to get the guy who pushes calf up an easy way to get out to tip table over for his wife.

It looks to me like there can be an open gap 'man gate' that red panel blocks calf from exiting outa.

On the brands, neat bender---ours is 2 character, I like to have the handles different from each other. I like to start and end with short rod, but put a pipe in the middle that rod will slip into. Drill a buncha holes into it, it'll surprise you how much cooler operator end stays. I like tapered bearing races to make brand itself outa.

 

[Faster horses]

I just about always learn something from you! I like the idea of the red panel---keeps next calf headed right way and sis from getting kicked.

We like stuff safe and easy, I'm kinda revamping a few things and want to make calf table a 2 person deal. Been head scratching over how to get the guy who pushes calf up an easy way to get out to tip table over for his wife.

It looks to me like there can be an open gap 'man gate' that red panel blocks calf from exiting outa.

On the brands, neat bender---ours is 2 character, I like to have the handles different from each other. I like to start and end with short rod, but put a pipe in the middle that rod will slip into. Drill a buncha holes into it, it'll surprise you how much cooler operator end stays. I like tapered bearing races to make brand itself outa.

I don't know much about calf tables, but I do know that you don't need to
tip all of them over, especially if the calf has been banded at birth. We have
neighbors that don't tip the table over. Works fine.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

I just about always learn something from you! I like the idea of the red panel---keeps next calf headed right way and sis from getting kicked.

We like stuff safe and easy, I'm kinda revamping a few things and want to make calf table a 2 person deal. Been head scratching over how to get the guy who pushes calf up an easy way to get out to tip table over for his wife.

It looks to me like there can be an open gap 'man gate' that red panel blocks calf from exiting outa.

On the brands, neat bender---ours is 2 character, I like to have the handles different from each other. I like to start and end with short rod, but put a pipe in the middle that rod will slip into. Drill a buncha holes into it, it'll surprise you how much cooler operator end stays. I like tapered bearing races to make brand itself outa.

I don't know much about calf tables, but I do know that you don't need to
tip all of them over, especially if the calf has been banded at birth. We have
neighbors that don't tip the table over. Works fine.

With the design of the table I use every calf is tipped but then I do everything from the top side or head. No walking around the table and two of us do all the calves. 1 pushes and one processes.

 

[littlejoe]

I just about always learn something from you! I like the idea of the red panel---keeps next calf headed right way and sis from getting kicked.

We like stuff safe and easy, I'm kinda revamping a few things and want to make calf table a 2 person deal. Been head scratching over how to get the guy who pushes calf up an easy way to get out to tip table over for his wife.

It looks to me like there can be an open gap 'man gate' that red panel blocks calf from exiting outa.

On the brands, neat bender---ours is 2 character, I like to have the handles different from each other. I like to start and end with short rod, but put a pipe in the middle that rod will slip into. Drill a buncha holes into it, it'll surprise you how much cooler operator end stays. I like tapered bearing races to make brand itself outa.

I don't know much about calf tables, but I do know that you don't need to
tip all of them over, especially if the calf has been banded at birth. We have
neighbors that don't tip the table over. Works fine.

With the design of the table I use every calf is tipped but then I do everything from the top side or head. No walking around the table and two of us do all the calves. 1 pushes and one processes.

I got a thorsen and you gotta tip it. We built a 'bud box' and have been putting in man gates any place I've ever crawled over a fence. On cow working alley, they open in. I'm too fat to have one open in on a calf alley. With just me and my wife, I want to be the one to push calves in and also tip the table. When I saw Soap's red panel, a light bulb kinda quit being quite so dim as to how to make it handy to do both.

 

[Soapweed]

I don't know much about calf tables, but I do know that you don't need to
tip all of them over, especially if the calf has been banded at birth. We have
neighbors that don't tip the table over. Works fine.

With the design of the table I use every calf is tipped but then I do everything from the top side or head. No walking around the table and two of us do all the calves. 1 pushes and one processes.

I got a thorsen and you gotta tip it. We built a 'bud box' and have been putting in man gates any place I've ever crawled over a fence. On cow working alley, they open in. I'm too fat to have one open in on a calf alley. With just me and my wife, I want to be the one to push calves in and also tip the table. When I saw Soap's red panel, a light bulb kinda quit being quite so dim as to how to make it handy to do both.

My sister is the one pushing the calves into the runway and onto the table. She is the one who came up with the wing idea, and it really works well. After putting in the wing, the whole operation goes faster and with less effort.

 

[Aaron]

Must be some whiteface in the background of that black cow, as I have been told that they are the only ones that prolapse. :wink:

 

[greybeard]

A set of back catchers knee pads that go down over the top of your foot make it a lot easier to recruit pushers.
Keep yer head up!

 

[gcreekrch]

One old timer here borrowed a calf table from a neighbor to try one out. He set it in the middle of the corral and had the crew catch the calves and push them into it.

He said he would never own one as it was the hardest work he'd ever done branding his calves. :roll:

This did happen over 40 years ago. The area has progressed some in thought process since. :lol:

Looking good there Soap. It's the will that makes the way. :wink:

 

[Big Swede]

Must be some whiteface in the background of that black cow, as I have been told that they are the only ones that prolapse. :wink:

All of Soap's cows have whiteface in their background. :wink: He's been doing his darnedest to breed it out of them though. Just kidding Aaron.