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WyomingRancher

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I enjoy looking at all of the photos posted on this site, and wanted to share where I live too. This forum is a great way to "visit" a bunch of different ranches and see a lot of new country without ever leaving home!

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Calving... getting close to 1/2 done
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My tagging trap is doing the trick!
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Yearling Balancer heifers (and a not-so-heavy cow). I had to put my yearlings out with some cows since my water situation isn't the best this year. Anyhow, I'm going to do it again since it has made the yearlings grow-up and learn some manners!
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I had to keep ONE red heifer last fall :D
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New Angus bulls to breed to the yearlings. I need to get a bit more angus back into my females and hope these bulls work.
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Yanuck said:
Nice.... where's your snow???!!!!
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Thanks everyone for your nice compliments.

Yanuck, the snow is all west of here this year. The draws actually have a good snowpack, and we had good fall moisture, and so the grass should be able to get a start (the wind opens most of the ground up).

I have mixed feelings about "missing out" on the big snows, but after looking at photos from a year ago, I guess I really don't mind the bare ground for calving. On a normal year, most of the beneficial wet snows come in late March and April. That's one reason I try to get my calves born in early March... I HATE muddy, sloppy corrals to calve in. However, with this drought, who knows what normal is anymore :)

Snow Fun during last year's winter (shop door is 14' high):
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That country is between Cheyenne & Laramie I'll bet. I've been across I80 a time or ten. Be in the Medicine Bow Natl Forest, or am I wrong again?? Hate it when that happens :?
 
Ohhh , to have that much bare ground in March...looks like early May here. Nice country, good cattle, and what looks like a patient bronc groundtied behind those bulls :wink:
 
Beautiful country and beautiful cows. I am partial to that red heifer. You could send her my way, since she doesn't seem to fit in with the rest of your herd :wink: :D
 
randiliana said:
Beautiful country and beautiful cows. I am partial to that red heifer. You could send her my way, since she doesn't seem to fit in with the rest of your herd :wink: :D
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She is quite special, and since I'm a redhead, I'm partial to keeping a little "good" color in the herd :lol: Thanks again for your nice compliments!

gcreekrch, yes, that's my patient palomino. I use horses too, but not until later in the spring. We get bare ground since we enjoy daily winds of 30+ MPH with gusts over 50mph. Trust me, it gets old, but thankfully does expose grass.

Shortgrass, you are correct... it's pretty country in the summertime!
 
:lol: Wasn't it Baxter Black that said the wind never blows in Wyoming......... under 45 miles an hour. One of my closest friends moved here from Wyoming in the early 70's, he's shared lots of stories of the weather there. Last year was a one in 15 for snow up here, 5' settled, still had a foot in my yard on May 1st, fed cows till the 28th,sure did appreciate opening the range gate. My bronc is sorrel,mechanically good, cosmetically not so good, maybe too many hard rides? You could mail me about 75-80 acres of that dry ground in about 2 weeks, I promise to send it back, fertilized and seeded in mid May.
 
Triangle Bar said:
Nice looking cattle. I like your tagging trap. Great idea :)

I've heard Wyoming wind socks are simply a length of log chain. Is this true? :lol: :lol:
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Thanks. I hate tagging by myself and so after looking at Soapweed's tagging method last spring, I thought this up. Even when I have help tagging, it is a nice trap to have. Now that it seems to be working, I am going to build another one on the other side of my calving lot.

Last fall I was in a building mode and built an alleyway to scourguard heavies as they were sorted in. Before, I had to do it at another set of corrals which get snowed in on bad years. I was excited when calving began to try out my new facilities.

I sorted 80 head in with my first heavy sort, and scourguarded them by myself in 2 1/2 hours. I added an alley back stop, which my cows hadn't seen before, and so it took a bit longer to train them to go under it. The next time I work them they should go faster. I was really happy with how it all worked :D .

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Yes, log chains are a common wind measurement tool in Wyoming :) Today is calm, but three days ago it was a "ten link day"!
 
We had to keep one red heifer too. :) We always have a white one too due to the little girl on this place.
 
Great pictures! I toured Medicene Bow last summer and it was beautiful country,,but dry,,hope you have a better summer this year. I've been wracking my brain to try and remember the country church that is up in that country,,,but can't seem to recall...

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I like your cows. They all have a lot of depth, and so do the new bulls you picked. I always enjoy the pictures, I should force myself to learn how to put some up.

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Jassy said:
WyomingRancher said:
Esterbrook?
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Yup that's the name!!! So do you live around that area?
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Kinda, I live in the same mountain range, but farther south towards the Colorado border. They were dryer last summer than us. Luckily we had about a foot of rain from mid-July until late September.

This drought seems to be an every other year occurance, and so I'm preparing for a dry spring. Hopefully I'll be wrong!
 

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