Wyoming Wind
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As winter drags on, we seem to find things to keep us busy. We won't start calving until around April 10th and we ran our cows thru the corral yesterday and scourguarded them. Don't want to brag (but I will anyways) we ran 400 through in one hour! A record for us! We are using corrals that are new to our cows so they don't yet have it figured out where to run back on us yet, 8 great neighbors helping, and we didn't have to catch any of the cows. Shut the tailgate on our new HyQual squeeze chute and had the snow piled up along the allyway to have a catwalk for the vaccinators, and nice weather all helped to make it a super speedy day of working cattle. All together we ran about 550 head thru. A good job to have done!
Meanwhile, we are still feeding up here with 4 head of Belgians hooked up to our hay sled. Here's the sled parked with half of the hay to feed to our replacement calves first thing in the morning
Since our team walks down the same trail everyday heading to the stackyard the trail builds up, packed solid, and we found out the hard way how hard it can get to walk a D6 Caterpiller dozer across it on the way to plow out the new stack yard. Got her stuck bad!
We hauled some blocks of woods out on snowmobiles and jammed under the track and did some shoveling and finally got it to go. We wrecked the sled trail, screwed our lead team up the next day with mulitple tracks to choose to go down, had the lead turn down one with the wheel team going down the other and broke the tongue in half, a wheel horse got on his back being dragged, and the lead team trying to drag the whole rig off. No horses were hurt, just the sled. I didn't get any pictures taken that day! Feeding took quite a while that day
Here's my son "playing" on the new tongue
Meanwhile between feeding and multiple storms blowing thru we had 3 weanling colts to halter break. Should be really nice ranch horses; Dry Doc, 3 bars, and Two Eyed Jack bred. Halter breaking is pretty exciting for about 5 minutes. We do it the "old school" way. Rope them, choke them down for just enough time to get the halter slapped on and drag them to a nearby post and leave them tied up for a few days and nights. We lead them to water and hang hay bags for them. Then we spend a few days practicing catching them and lead them behind our haysled on the way to go feed. Here's some "action" shots.
And I love this picture. His expression says it all. Welcome to horsey kindergarten kid !
The storms we have had blow through here brought loads of snow and lots of wind. Here are a few of the snowdrifts that have formed around our little cabin.
Before too long we will have pictures of baby calves on here. I wish everyone a happy and successful calving! Send springtime our way!
Meanwhile, we are still feeding up here with 4 head of Belgians hooked up to our hay sled. Here's the sled parked with half of the hay to feed to our replacement calves first thing in the morning
Since our team walks down the same trail everyday heading to the stackyard the trail builds up, packed solid, and we found out the hard way how hard it can get to walk a D6 Caterpiller dozer across it on the way to plow out the new stack yard. Got her stuck bad!
We hauled some blocks of woods out on snowmobiles and jammed under the track and did some shoveling and finally got it to go. We wrecked the sled trail, screwed our lead team up the next day with mulitple tracks to choose to go down, had the lead turn down one with the wheel team going down the other and broke the tongue in half, a wheel horse got on his back being dragged, and the lead team trying to drag the whole rig off. No horses were hurt, just the sled. I didn't get any pictures taken that day! Feeding took quite a while that day
Here's my son "playing" on the new tongue
Meanwhile between feeding and multiple storms blowing thru we had 3 weanling colts to halter break. Should be really nice ranch horses; Dry Doc, 3 bars, and Two Eyed Jack bred. Halter breaking is pretty exciting for about 5 minutes. We do it the "old school" way. Rope them, choke them down for just enough time to get the halter slapped on and drag them to a nearby post and leave them tied up for a few days and nights. We lead them to water and hang hay bags for them. Then we spend a few days practicing catching them and lead them behind our haysled on the way to go feed. Here's some "action" shots.
And I love this picture. His expression says it all. Welcome to horsey kindergarten kid
!
The storms we have had blow through here brought loads of snow and lots of wind. Here are a few of the snowdrifts that have formed around our little cabin.
Before too long we will have pictures of baby calves on here. I wish everyone a happy and successful calving! Send springtime our way!
