Chimenea
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Hi everybody. I've been kind of quiet lately, but have been enjoying keeping up with everyone's posts.
Wanted to share a few pictures we've taken over the past few months; some of the Facebook users have seen the pictures already, my apologies for the redundancy to those that have already seen the photos. (In case you are interested, you can see a bunch of photos here https://www.facebook.com/RanchoLaChimenea/photos_albums without needing a Facebook account)
We've been blessed with improving health and the opportunity to work over the past few months, and I'm enjoying spending more time outside the house. I've had the opportunity to spend a lot more time on the ranch this spring than I did last year, so I get a little excited with all the pictures (sorry....).
We've expanded some on the cattle side, and while we continue to breed and sell charbray seed stock, we've also added a red brangus breeding operation.
And, we have most of the 2013 foal crop on the ground (a colt on the ground yesterday, and one more mare to foal this year, God willing). So, here are some photos of the past few months.
Some yearling charbray bulls in development. This photo is from Easter Sunday
Another Easter Sunday picture of one of the bulls in development
A charbray momma cow. Easter Sunday again.
More charbray cows.
Red brangus bulls
And some of their lady friends
Some more of their lady friends, in the stock pens before turnout to pasture
And another one from their time in the pens prior to turnout
My daughter with the charbray momma cows on Easter Sunday. Her face is blurred out because the photo is up on Facebook page for the ranch (which is public), and I don't post too many face pictures there
My daughter and I heading back from looking at the cows
My daughter and the older of my two boys. Big sister sure likes to give little brother some pointers. And, she's really gotten along well with the bay mare she's riding (bareback....) in the picture. It's a young mare we raised, by a son of Corona Cartel and out of a mare that is straight halter bred. We're pretty pleased with how the mare is turning out.
The same mare
They get along pretty well; the mare won't leave to go grazing until she's sure she's gotten all the scratches she can get from my daughter.
That's more like it
I just like this one....
Little brother gets babysat, as well....
The young gray stud is starting to look the part. He's turning out to be a heck of a traveling horse, and has outwalked everything we've ridden alongside of him.
He's filling out the way we hoped.
And his buddy the racing bred stud, Heza Feature Mr Jess (Feature Mr Jess x Pretty N Fast x Heza Fast Man), is coming along pretty well, too.
Here are both of them. Their pens are next to each other just down the hill from the house, and the mares run loose in the headquarters pasture at this place. That means the mares sidle right up to the boys when the stallions are in their pens (they ride alongside them when they're under saddle). The studs are pretty well socialized.
This two year old stud colt by the gray stallion is coming along well.
And, some of our 2013 foals.
This filly is by the gray stud and out of one of the mares we bought in Nebraska a few years ago.
Here she is again. She is not really all that sure about adult sized people, but she cozied up to my daughter pretty quickly. That's the gray stud (who is the sire to the filly) just on the other side of the fence, behind the mare.
This filly is by the race horse stud, and out of one of our speed bred mares.
Here she is again, peeking out from behind mom
This is a gelding we raised, out of a working bred mare and by one of the halter bred stallions we've used. Easter Sunday was the first opportunity I have had to ride him, and I was pretty well impressed with him (he's a long ways from being green, but up until this past Spring, I'd only been on a horse two or three times in about 16 months, while I got healthier). His registered name is Mister Peach; the name seems to fit. You can see I definitely have my weight back :shock: (I'm back to 225 or so, from having been all the way down to 165).
She gets along with the buckskin horse pretty well, too.
This is the first picture I have of me horseback with all three of my kids. We took this on Palm Sunday.
Her buddy the bay roan gelding, Skip The Popcorn (another one we've raised). He is laid up right now and in a pen by himself to keep the rest of the remuda from beating up on him (some more.... ) Why is it that the good ones are the ones that end up getting hurt?; anyway, he seemed to be glad for her company.
Her version of cowgirl heaven
Wanted to share a few pictures we've taken over the past few months; some of the Facebook users have seen the pictures already, my apologies for the redundancy to those that have already seen the photos. (In case you are interested, you can see a bunch of photos here https://www.facebook.com/RanchoLaChimenea/photos_albums without needing a Facebook account)
We've been blessed with improving health and the opportunity to work over the past few months, and I'm enjoying spending more time outside the house. I've had the opportunity to spend a lot more time on the ranch this spring than I did last year, so I get a little excited with all the pictures (sorry....).
We've expanded some on the cattle side, and while we continue to breed and sell charbray seed stock, we've also added a red brangus breeding operation.
And, we have most of the 2013 foal crop on the ground (a colt on the ground yesterday, and one more mare to foal this year, God willing). So, here are some photos of the past few months.
Some yearling charbray bulls in development. This photo is from Easter Sunday
Another Easter Sunday picture of one of the bulls in development
A charbray momma cow. Easter Sunday again.
More charbray cows.
Red brangus bulls
And some of their lady friends
Some more of their lady friends, in the stock pens before turnout to pasture
And another one from their time in the pens prior to turnout
My daughter with the charbray momma cows on Easter Sunday. Her face is blurred out because the photo is up on Facebook page for the ranch (which is public), and I don't post too many face pictures there
My daughter and I heading back from looking at the cows
My daughter and the older of my two boys. Big sister sure likes to give little brother some pointers. And, she's really gotten along well with the bay mare she's riding (bareback....) in the picture. It's a young mare we raised, by a son of Corona Cartel and out of a mare that is straight halter bred. We're pretty pleased with how the mare is turning out.
The same mare
They get along pretty well; the mare won't leave to go grazing until she's sure she's gotten all the scratches she can get from my daughter.
That's more like it
I just like this one....
Little brother gets babysat, as well....
The young gray stud is starting to look the part. He's turning out to be a heck of a traveling horse, and has outwalked everything we've ridden alongside of him.
He's filling out the way we hoped.
And his buddy the racing bred stud, Heza Feature Mr Jess (Feature Mr Jess x Pretty N Fast x Heza Fast Man), is coming along pretty well, too.
Here are both of them. Their pens are next to each other just down the hill from the house, and the mares run loose in the headquarters pasture at this place. That means the mares sidle right up to the boys when the stallions are in their pens (they ride alongside them when they're under saddle). The studs are pretty well socialized.
This two year old stud colt by the gray stallion is coming along well.
And, some of our 2013 foals.
This filly is by the gray stud and out of one of the mares we bought in Nebraska a few years ago.
Here she is again. She is not really all that sure about adult sized people, but she cozied up to my daughter pretty quickly. That's the gray stud (who is the sire to the filly) just on the other side of the fence, behind the mare.
This filly is by the race horse stud, and out of one of our speed bred mares.
Here she is again, peeking out from behind mom
This is a gelding we raised, out of a working bred mare and by one of the halter bred stallions we've used. Easter Sunday was the first opportunity I have had to ride him, and I was pretty well impressed with him (he's a long ways from being green, but up until this past Spring, I'd only been on a horse two or three times in about 16 months, while I got healthier). His registered name is Mister Peach; the name seems to fit. You can see I definitely have my weight back :shock: (I'm back to 225 or so, from having been all the way down to 165).
She gets along with the buckskin horse pretty well, too.
This is the first picture I have of me horseback with all three of my kids. We took this on Palm Sunday.
Her buddy the bay roan gelding, Skip The Popcorn (another one we've raised). He is laid up right now and in a pen by himself to keep the rest of the remuda from beating up on him (some more.... ) Why is it that the good ones are the ones that end up getting hurt?; anyway, he seemed to be glad for her company.
Her version of cowgirl heaven
Thanks for posting pics.